With more than 60,000 Palestinians now injured by Israel’s ongoing bombardment, Gaza’s hospitals are needed more than ever. But hospitals cannot save lives if they are forced to shut down.
More than half of hospitals have now been forced to close because of Israel’s military attacks. The remaining hospitals are at risk. Please help Palestinians by emailing your MP to save Gaza’s hospitals.
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“The amount of injuries being brought in has been horrific, but with a huge reduction in the number of staff able to come to the hospital, there's even less capacity for treating them. There are patients clearly dying in the emergency department who could be saved if there were enough staff.”
– Professor Nick Maynard, a surgeon who recently worked with MAP in Al-Aqsa Hospital.
Staff at Al-Aqsa Hospital, the largest still-functioning hospital in Gaza’s Middle Area, have been displaced and unable to safely look after the hundreds of patients remaining there because of increasing Israeli military attacks in the vicinity. This includes our own Emergency Medical Team, who were forced to suspend their work at the hospital in the first week of January and return to the UK.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military has dropped leaflets ordering civilians to move south – a chilling echo of the days before their November 2023 raid on Al Shifa Hospital in the north of Gaza.
Evacuation orders and bombardment around the Nasser and European hospitals in Khan Younis also put their vital services at critical risk.
Now, as then, an evacuation of Al-Aqsa Hospital – or any other – would be a death sentence for patients and wounded people, including babies and children.
MAP is calling on our leaders in the UK to immediately intervene to prevent this catastrophe from getting worse.
Foreign Secretary DAVID CAMERON Should:
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Pressure the UK Prime Minister to call his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and demand that the Israeli military upholds the protection of Gaza’s hospitals, and guarantees the safety of all staff, patients and displaced people inside, and access to and from health facilities.
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Immediately issue a statement opposing, in the strongest terms, any actions by the Israeli military to force the closure of Al-Aqsa Hospital or any healthcare facilities in Gaza, which are protected under international law.
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Publicly call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, as the only way to protect civilians and prevent the total collapse of healthcare in Gaza.
Please email your MP today asking them to write to the Foreign Secretary, David Cameron, demanding action to uphold international humanitarian law and to save Gaza’s hospitals.
Even if you have emailed your MP in the past, it is vital that we keep up the pressure.
