Schillerinstitutet ansluter sig till de dussintals organisationer och tusentals individer världen över som stöder kravet från Läkare mot folkmord (Doctors Against Genocide – DAG) att det pågående folkmordet i Gaza omedelbart måste upphöra.
”Den avsiktliga bombningen av sjukhus, attackerna mot sjukvårdspersonal och den systematiska förstörelsen av medicinsk service måste stoppas. Inte ett enda barn till ska behöva lida, svälta, amputeras eller mista livet på grund av detta pågående folkmord”, heter det i DAG:s senaste appell. ”Vi blir sjuka av folkmordet”, skriver de.
Dessa läkare och vårdpersonal representerar den bästa humanistiska traditionen i den hippokratiska läkareden , som i förlängningen föreskriver för alla moraliska personer som vill hjälpa till att bota människor att vi inte får ”göra någon skada eller orättvisa” – men som också antyder att vi aktivt måste göra det goda. Medan större delen av världen står bredvid och med fasa ser på när ett nytt folkmord utspelar sig framför våra ögon, medan Natos regeringar leder oss till randen av ett kärnvapenkrig, håller de som står upp och höjer sin röst mot dessa Nürnbergbrott gnistan av allas vår mänsklighet vid liv – och det är en kraft som, om den stärks och utvecklas, kan spridas och göra oändligt gott i världen.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, grundare av Schillerinstitutet, uppmanade den 3 januari alla organisationer och individer att gå samman för att stoppa dt pågående folkmordet, i ett anförande vid det 83:e veckomötet för Internationella fredskoalitionen, som hon tagit initiativ till:
”Jag tror att det är därför vi absolut måste göra något åt detta, men inte stanna där: För tänk på Sudan, tänk på Jemen, tänk på Haiti. Det förekommer folkmord, och det är en del av det här systemet, vilket är anledningen till att vi behöver en ny säkerhets- och utvecklingsarkitektur som lägger ett helt nytt system på bordet. Jag tror att 2025 är det år då vi antingen kommer att lyckas göra det, eller så kommer vi att se att världen kan sprängas i luften. Så det här är en mycket stark anledning för att göra allt vi kan.”
Schillerinstitutet lyfter fram Zepp-LaRouches ”Tio principer för en ny internationell säkerhets- och utvecklingsarkitektur” https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2022/11/30/ten-principles-of-a-new-international-security-and-development-architecture/ som ett diskussionsdokument för att främja och fördjupa den processen.
Läs om hur Schillerinstitutet informerade samma dag som Kamal Adwan-sjukhuset stormades med rapport av doktor Nidal Jiboor till Internationella fredskoalitionens möte och från presskonferensen med Läkare mot Folkmord: https://schillerinstitutet.se/israel-forstorde-sista-sjukhuset-i-norra-gaza-kamal-adwan/
Forumet ”Sjuka av folkmord – Inte ett barn till, inte ett sjukhus till”
Den mycket kompetenta amerikabaserade organisationen Läkare mot folkmord höll ett nytt nätforum den 5 januari, med 300-400 deltagare online och fler på andra plattformar, med starka presentationer om det pågående folkmordet i Gaza och nödvändigheten att få slut på det nu. Ett tema var att det finns en sjukdom som orsakas av folkmordet som sprids över hela världen av USA:s stöd till Israels ledare och militär. Den måste hejdas genom att själva folkmordet stoppas – med organisering!
Talarna hade en affisch bakom sig med kravet på frigivning av doktor Hussam Abu Safiya, chef för Kamal Adwan-sjukhuset, det sista sjukhuset i norra Gaza, som stängdes och förstördes av Israels armé veckan innan, den 27 december, då också doktor Safiya arresterades. Mötet hade hoppats kunna inkludera människor i Gaza, inklusive doktor Abu Safiyas familj, men uppkopplingarna fungerade inte.
Bland läkaraktivisterna fanns Karameh Hawash Kuemmerle som moderator, tillsammans med doktor Nidal Jiboor. Doktor Mimi Syed inledde med en beskrivning av de fruktansvärda förhållanden hon sett under sina två resor till Gaza, och betonade det akuta behovet av medicinska evakueringar, särskilt av barn som annars inte kan få medicinsk behandling. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Alla tre hade också talat vid Internationella fredskoalitionens möte den 3 januari.: Här börjar doktor Jibor sin rapport där: https://youtu.be/PXIHr76qpkQ?t=1692
Se Läkare mot folkmords nätforum söndagen den 5 januari: https://youtu.be/yhYWRtcA7xs
Läs mer om opinionsarbetet mot folkmord på hemsidan för Läkare mot folkmord: https://doctorsagainstgenocide.org/
På bilden ses doktor Hussam Abu Safiya i sin vita läkarrock utan att tveka vandra rakt fram genom rasmassorna på gatan till två stridsberedda israeliska stridsvagnar för förhandla om att rädda sitt sjukhus den 27.12. Det var dagen då Kamal Adwan-sjukhuset attackerades och han och personalen bortfördes och misshandlades tillsammans med de patienter som kunde flyttas. https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/husam-abu-safiya-tanks.jpeg
I ett särskilt upprop utvecklar Läkare mot folkmord – DAG (nedan på engelska) betydelsen av att angrepp på hälsovård är ett brott mot internationell humanitär rätt och de Hippokratiska principerna som läkare OCH samhället i stort är skyldiga att följa. När läkare hindras att utföra sina heliga skyldigheter att hjälpa sina patienter, blir de förstahandsvittnen när det handlar om att avgöra om det är folkmordsbrott enligt Nürnbergprinciperna. Detta gör att alla hälsoarbetare med sina direkta erfarenheter, lika mycket som jurister kan, avgöra om det handlar om folkmord. Här ligger den extra sprängkraften i läkarnas och andra hälsoarbetares uttalanden om att det pågår folkmord i Gaza.
Det är därför det är viktigt att alla läkare och andra hälsoarbetare och deras arbetsplatser och organisationer nås med DAG:s upprop så de kan ta ställning för att försvara hälsosektorn i Gaza, och även alla andra ställen där hälsovård hotas av brottslig inhumanitet.
Doctors Against Genocide Urgent Appeal: Take Immediate
Action To Protect Healthcare and Children in Gaza
Jan. 4, 2025 (EIRNS)—The following letter, available on the
website of Doctors Against Genocide, is being circulated as part of
DAG’s campaign, “Not Another Child Not Another Hospital.” It has
been endorsed by more than 40 organizations and more than 5000
employees in the healthcare sector.
Urgent Appeal to CDC, NIH, Presidents of Medical Associations,
CEOs of Hospitals, and Healthcare Leaders: Take Immediate Action
to Protect Healthcare and children in Gaza
As healthcare workers and leaders who are committed to the
protection of life and health, it is our responsibility to address the
urgent and escalating crisis in Gaza and Lebanon. Hospitals are
being bombed in Gaza and in Lebanon as we speak, with healthcare
facilities reduced to rubble. We have seen the destruction of nearly
every hospital in Gaza, the incarceration, torture, and killing of
healthcare professionals, and the horrific scenes of patients tethered
to IV lines murdered or burned alive in their beds. Children have
been maimed and shot by snipers, their bodies riddled with bullets,
and are being systematically starved. The very foundation of
healthcare in Gaza is being systematically dismantled.
Recent reports confirm that medical missions are now banned from
entering Gaza, and the northern part of Gaza is being completely
shut down: no journalists, no doctors, no food, no fuel, and no aid
are being allowed in. These severe restrictions have made it
impossible to deliver even the most basic medical services.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, over 1000
healthcare workers have been killed and hundreds more have been
illegally detained and currently in prison. Every hospital has been
bombed and the health system is in total collapse.
As healthcare leaders, we urge you to issue statements demanding
the following:
- Stop Bombing Hospitals and Attacking Healthcare and Aid
Workers: We demand an immediate halt to all bombings and
attacks on hospitals, healthcare facilities, and aid workers.
These spaces and personnel must be protected under
international law, and the ongoing destruction must end.
- Call for the Protection of Children in Gaza and Lebanon: No
child should ever be a victim of war, under any
circumstance. The safety and security of children must be
respected at all times, with no exceptions. It is our collective
moral duty to protect the most vulnerable, ensuring their
right to life, peace, and dignity in every corner of the world.
- Call for an Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire and an End
to the ongoing Genocide to Allow Health Operations to
Resume: The ongoing violence is obstructing life-saving
care. A ceasefire is essential to stabilize health operations,
treat the wounded, and prevent further unnecessary loss of
life.
- Support a Comprehensive and Immediate Embargo on
Weapons to Israel and Divestment from Israel to Stop the
Ethnic Cleansing of Civilians and Destruction of Healthcare:
The continued supply of weapons has transformed hospitals
and healthcare facilities into battlegrounds, where healthcare
workers and patients are being brutally targeted. These
weapons are not just instruments of war—they are tools of
mass devastation, driving the slaughter of civilians and the
obliteration of essential healthcare services.
- Advocate for Unrestricted Humanitarian and Medical Access
to Gaza: Immediate delivery of essential medical supplies,
such as antibiotics, surgical tools, and trauma care resources,
must be ensured. Preventing access to healthcare is a
violation of medical ethics and humanitarian principles.
- Establish healthcare education and training at your
institution for patient-facing staff to provide informed care to
patients affected by war crimes, crimes against humanity and
This training should include a focus on the
impacts of racism, occupation, apartheid, and settlercolonialism
on health especially in the context of Palestine.
Offering this clinical training aligns with the 6 Key
Principles of TraumaInformed Care (TIC) as outlined by
SAMHSA and the CDC, and represents a best practice in
patient care. We also emphasize that censoring voices that
speak out against this genocide is antithetical to our medical
oath. As healthcare professionals, we are committed to
saving lives and standing against injustice. Silencing those
who advocate for the end of atrocities goes against the very
principles of our profession.
The demands above are consistent with International Humanitarian
Law, U.S. Federal Law, and the four canonized Principles of
Medical Ethics. We ask you, as leaders in healthcare, to join us in
urging Congress and the Senate to take immediate action by calling
and emailing elected officials. The deliberate bombing of hospitals,
the targeting of healthcare workers, and the systematic destruction
of medical services must be stopped. Not another child should
suffer, starve, be amputated, or lose their life due to this ongoing
genocide.
Additionally, we ask for your support in bolstering the efforts of our
organizations and the medical community in Gaza and Lebanon.
The need is urgent and immense, and we cannot meet it alone. We
need your help to provide care, save lives, support medical and
nursing students, and rebuild healthcare infrastructure that has been
shattered. Supporting our efforts is not just about providing aid; it’s
about ensuring that healthcare workers can continue their sacred
mission of healing in the face of unimaginable adversity. Now is the
time to act—your leadership can make the difference.
http://tinyurl.com/notanotherhospitalsignatories
‘Shocking Statistics’ on Gaza Receive International
Attention
Jan. 5, 2025 (EIRNS)—The International Movement for a JUST World, founded and run by Chandra Muzaffar in Malaysia, in their newsletter this week posted an article titled “Shocking Statistics on the 450th consecutive day of the genocide on the Gaza Strip,” by Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian scientist and author, who is the founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University, where he teaches. The article is reproduced here in full:
Shocking Statistics
By Mazin Qumsiyeh
The Palestinian Government Media Office published an update on the most important statistics (deemed reliable even by the UN, WHO and even U.S.A.). PLEASE READ and disseminate that Israeli occupation forces (with U.S. tax money and munitions and to a lesser extent other countries) did this:
- Dropped 88,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip (more
than dropped on Vietnam, and four times the explosive
power of a Hiroshima-size nuclear bomb in an area of a
mere 360 sq km or 250 square mile)
- Committed 9,973 massacres (killing many people at one
time by bombing or shelling; 70% women and children)
- 56,714 killed and missing persons: 45,514 reached hospitals
(Ministry of Health recorded), 11,200 missing persons did
not reach hospitals (under rubble or bodies missing). Those
killed and documented include:
- 1,413 Palestinian whole families gone (no surviving members)
while 3,467 Palestinian families had only one surviving family
member, and the number of members of these families is 7,941
martyrs. (Ministry of Health).
- 17,818 children killed (most under age of 5 years, 238 infants were born and killed in the period of the genocide).
- 12,287 women killed
- 1068 from the medical staff (Ministry of Health).
- 94 civil defense/first responders and 728 police officers (civil)
- 201 journalists (higher than those killed in WWII)
- 520 exhumed from seven mass graves on grounds of targeted hospitals.
- The numbers do not include those dying from lack of food, medicine, water, from diseases and from cold.
Specifically
+ 44 children were recorded starved to death, many hundreds are not recorded
+ Six infants died from hypothermia in tents, many hundreds are not recorded
+ Data do not include deaths among the 12,500 cancer patients
(largely lacking treatments)
+ Data do not include deaths or debilitation from infectious
diseases: 2,136,026 cases of such diseases due to displacement
forcing unsanitary conditions including hepatitis, polio, skin
diseases, lung disorders, intestinal disorders (Ministry of Health)
+ + Data do not include deaths or debilitation from chronic disease
patients (350,000 patients such as diabetes) due to the occupation
preventing the entry of medicines or allowing operation of facilities
like kidney dialysis
- 108,189 wounded and injured arrived at hospitals including
399 journalists and media professionals), 12,650 wounded
need to travel abroad for treatment. (Ministry of Health)
- 21 displacement centers (declared “safe zones”) targeted by
the Israeli occupation (only 10% of the area of the Gaza
Strip is claimed by the Israeli occupation to be “humanitarian areas”)
- 35,060 children live without their parents or without one of them (orphans).
- 12,125 women lost their husbands during the genocidal war.
- More than 60,000 pregnant women lack of OB/GYN healthcare (risk)
- Nearly 10,000 were abducted and incarcerated without trial
including 331 medical, 43 media, and 26 civil defense
personnel. Over 30 died under torture in Israeli prisons (3
medical personnel executed in prison by torture)
- 2 million displaced people in the Gaza Strip. 110,000 tents
were worn out and became unfit for the displaced.
- Infrastructure including most buildings were destroyed
intentionally (in most cases after Israeli infantry occupied
them). This includes
- 135 schools and universities completely and 353 schools and
universities partially destroyed (12,780 students were killed during
the war): 756 teachers and educational employees in the education
sector were killed by the occupation during the war. 148 scientists,
academics, university professors and researchers were executed by
the occupation. 785,000 students were deprived of education by the
Israeli occupation.
- 823 mosques were completely destroyed and 158 mosques were
severely destroyed by the occupation and need to be restored.
- 3 churches targeted and destroyed.
- 19 cemeteries were completely or partially destroyed by the occupation out of 60 cemeteries. 2,300 bodies were stolen by the occupation from several cemeteries in the Gaza Strip.
- 161,600 housing units completely destroyed and 194,000 housing units are partially destroyed
- 162 health care facilities targeted by the occupation (most clinics and hospitals destroyed and/or rendered out of service).
- 136 ambulances targeted
- 213 government civil headquarters
- 206 archaeological and heritage sites.
- 3,130 kilometers of electricity networks.
- 125 number of underground electricity distribution transformers destroyed.
- 330 kilometers of water networks destroyed.
- 655 kilometers of sewage networks destroyed.
- 2,835 kilometers of road and street networks destroyed.
- 42 community facilities, playgrounds and sports halls destroyed.
- 717 water wells destroyed by the occupation and put out of service.
- This is 86% destruction rate in the Gaza Strip. $37 billion is the initial direct economic losses of the genocide war
- This does not include the environmental damage; some of it not repairable and some areas of Gaza are now uninhabitable fordecades to come….
See our research papers on this such as this one.
30 December 2024—
[Source:]
(https://popularresistance.blogspot.com/2024/12/shocking-statistics.html )