by Alice Rothchild, Mondoweiss, July 14 https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/webinar-the-destruction-of-healthcare-in-gaza-and-the-scientific-assessment-of-settler-colonial-violence/
webinar: The destruction of healthcare in Gaza: A scientific assessment of settler-colonial violence <https://www.jvphealth.org/events/destruction-healthcare-gaza>. https://www.jvphealth.org/events/destruction-healthcare-gaza Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council, June 29 https://www.jvphealth.org/ Rothchild, Mondoweiss: The June 29, 2024 webinar organized by the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council <https://www.jvphealth.org/>, “The destruction of healthcare in Gaza: A scientific assessment of settler-colonial violence,” hosted a distinguished panel that established important framing and outlined data on the genocide in Gaza. Dr. Bram Wispelwey, co-director of the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights at the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University ... He explored the settler colonial determinants of health, the racialization and hierarchy that is created such that settlers can dominate and eliminate indigenous native populations, the U.S. and Israel being well-known examples. He saw the upswing in censorship on Palestine as a discursive force of war, the intensity reflecting the weakness in the anti-Palestinian position, and urged protestors in the U.S. to continue pushing for a change in the Palestine/Israel narrative. Dennis Kunichoff, with an MPH in biostatics, works as a data analyst at FXB with Dr. Wispelwey. ... He reviewed the use of satellite imagery of Gaza to gather reliable on-the-ground information and the changes that can be scientifically observed over time. Using publicly available data on the locations of humanitarian facilities, health care and educational institutions, and water facilities, and overlapping these with satellite documentation of bombings and the destruction of infrastructure, he demonstrated that the clustering of damage from Israeli assaults was not random, that the sites of attacks and the use of 2,000-pound bombs in the first six weeks of the war were clustered over the civilian infrastructure listed above. Dr. Sawsan Abdulrahim, Professor of Public Health at the American University of Beirut and a visiting fellow at the FXB Palestine Program for Health & Human Rights, discussed the critical history of UNRWA and the Israeli government’s attacks on the agency as one of the main providers of primary healthcare for Palestinian refugees. Because 75-80% of Gaza are refugees and rely on UNRWA for services and aid, the attacks on UNRWA are attacks on Palestinian existence. Netanyahu’s false claims that UNRWA is infiltrated by Hamas are part of a long history of Israeli attempts to eliminate the agency. ... Dr. A. Kayum Ahmed, a South African activist-scholar, discussed the international legal framework. ... International human rights law established the right to health, cultural, civil, and political rights, criminal law, and the conventions on the crime of apartheid and genocide. The framework was ironically established in 1948, the same year as the Nakba. Rooted in colonialism with colonial powers dominating the UN, IHL has not succeeded in preventing the Gaza genocide. In fact, international laws have been flaunted by Israel. ... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31167): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31167 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107242328/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
