Doctors in Unite

The UK’s oldest medical trade union. Standing up for doctors, fighting for the NHS. A proud member of Unite and the TUC ✊

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Doctors in Unite is:

🚑 The UK’s oldest medical trade union

✊The home for progressive doctors

🏥 A powerful voice against privatisation and unsafe workplace conditions

Things need to change. Join a union

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Our statement in response to the governments's plan to silence all 1.5 million NHS workers over Palestine.

https://t.co/NM8b8woIzH

[Dr Fadel Naim @fnaim65]

To Those Who Wonder About Us in Gaza

Ladies and gentlemen around the world, allow us to share with you a glimpse of our daily lives here in Gaza — so you may know how we survive each day under siege and war that have stolen so much from us, yet not our will to endure.

We have not tasted meat or fresh fruit for over four months now. When we cook, we often do so without onions, garlic, or spices — not because we do not wish for flavor, but because these simple things are either gone from our markets or have become too expensive for any of us to afford. We drink tea without sugar and have forgotten the taste of sweets, as a single kilogram of sugar now costs between 80 and 100 US dollars.

We have been without cooking gas for months. So we burn whatever we can find — old clothes, shoes, even parts of our furniture — just to prepare a meal for our families. Fish, once the food of ordinary people, is now only for the wealthy or those who profit from this war; good fish costs up to 60 dollars a kilo.

Most of us rely on charity kitchens for simple meals — lentils, pasta, and dry legumes. Sometimes we mix lentils or beans with flour to make it last longer, because flour alone is precious: a kilo can cost anywhere from 6 to 25 dollars, depending on whether aid trucks are looted or resold before reaching us.

We have reduced our meals to just two a day. We delay breakfast and lunch so that we do not need dinner, and we divide our loaves of bread carefully to make sure everyone gets their small share. Our breakfast is now just a little Gazan duqqa or a pinch of thyme — so simple that our stomachs ache from the sameness and the hunger that never really goes away.

Our faces have changed. Our bodies have grown thin, our elders age faster than they should, and our children suffer from malnutrition and anemia.

This is just a glimpse of how we live each day — a life of waiting, sharing, and holding onto hope that our voices will reach you. We bear this hardship with patience, asking God to reward us for our endurance, and hoping that you will remember us, speak for us, and help lift some of this heavy burden.

[HCWs Against Censorship @HCWsAC]

Healthcare workers are hunted. Attacked. Reported. Persecuted. In Britain and globally.

Free speech is a human right. We refuse to be silenced. We will fight for humanity. Watch this space. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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[Neve Gordon @nevegordon]

British Medical Association Severs Links with Israel.

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Please sign and share our emergency statement to Keir Starmer and David Lammy.

BREAD NOT BOMBS FOR GAZA.
LET THE CHILDREN EAT.
NO MORE WEAPONS FOR ISRAEL.

https://t.co/AjqwtXt2qv

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[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

An international team of physicians and human rights advocates released the Executive Summary with key findings from a new investigative report documenting what authors describe as a “two pronged attack” on healthcare workers in Gaza and around the world to silence critique of what Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Doctors without Borders and an international U.N. Commission have called a “genocide.”

The report, “Healthcare Workers as Human Rights Defenders: A Medical Perspective on Israel’s Genocide Enablement Apparatus in Gaza and Abroad,” highlighting the urgent need for a medical definition of genocide to enable timely interventions by healthcare workers, was submitted to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health on January 10, 2025.

Even with a ceasefire, over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza will fight for survival, with a decimated health and sanitation infrastructure and over 90% of housing and over 80% of health facilities in Gaza damaged or destroyed. This report exposes the connections between systematic attacks on healthcare workers in Gaza (Medicide) and around the world as tactics of genocide.

UN Special Rapporteur to Palestine, Francesca Albanese, and UN Special Rapporteur to the Right to Health, Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng will join report contributors from around the world to discuss the findings of the full report at a virtual press conference on January 29, 2025 at 7am PST/10am EST/5pm CET.

Executive summary of report available here: https://t.co/ZPdKLK93sm

Register at https://t.co/emiGfE10JR

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@DrJohnPuntis has written for Keep Our NHS Public on the dangers of further health sector privatisation, criticising government blind spots in plans announced by the Prime Minister in January.

More here 👇

https://t.co/FbEFMhOHuT

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Sign the petition: Tell the World Medical Association to call for the release of medics in Israeli detention! @codepink https://t.co/lbvxpayGKb

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Statement by the Jewish Bloc on the police ban on the London demonstration on Saturday 18 January.

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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu

@AoMRC and @TheBMA, will you ever condemn the abduction, torture, rape and killing of health workers in Gaza?

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

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The Colombian Medical Federation has spoken out - when will you?

https://t.co/nKEngsqynu

The Italian Medical Association has condemned it - when will you?

https://t.co/JKf4k6YRtv

Francesca Albanese has said sever all medical ties with Israel
https://t.co/rvUTGMAWxq

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I urge medical professionals worldwide to pursue the severance of all ties with Israel as a concrete way to forcefully denounce Israel's full destruction of the Palestinian healthcare system in Gaza, a critical tool of its ongoing genocide.
#FreeDrHussanAbuSafiya