Palestine, Health and the Limits of Humanitarianism – Resources

Learning for Action resources; What can I do as a health worker to support the Palestinian cause?
RESOURCESLINKS
[TAKE ACTION] No Palantir in the NHS campaign petitionhttps://nopalantir.org.uk/ and https://goodlawproject.org/campaign/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/ 
[TAKE ACTION] East London Health Workers for a Free Palestine open letterhttps://Eastlondonhw4pal.short.gy/HW4PAL
[WEBSITE] Institute for Palestine Studies database: Documenting the Targeting and Destruction of the Health Sector in the Gaza Strip.Online at: https://gazahcsector.palestine-studies.org/en
[VIDEO] Ghassan Abu Sittah lecture at the SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies: “The Biosphere of Genocide – Gaza’s Killing Machine”. Available to watch at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_AYE_ADqfQ&pp=ygUXZ2hhc3NhbiBhYnUgc2l0dGFoIHNvYXPYBr4DGX5dqvNnpfWUp8y9eR  
[BOOK] Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah, Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine (Verso 2025) Available to buy at: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3410-resisting-erasure 
[BOOK CHAPTER] Medicine and Colonialism in “A Dying Colonialism” by Frantz Fanon. Available to read at: https://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Frantz-Fanon-A-Dying-Colonialism.pdf 
[ARTICLE] Mary Turfah, “No Side to Fall In: Medical neutrality in Gaza”, The BafflerAvailable to read at: https://thebaffler.com/latest/no-side-to-fall-in-turfah 
[ESSAY] Andreas Malm, “The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth”Available to read at: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-destruction-of-palestine-is-the-destruction-of-the-earth
[ARTICLE] Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee, Salim Yusuf, “Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential”, LancetAvailable to read at: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext 
[ARTICLE] Sammy Zahrana, Ghassan Abu-Sittah, “Over 3 million life-years lost in Gaza”, LancetAvailable to read at: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)02112-9/fulltext 
[REPORT] Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese, “Gaza Genocide: a collective crime”Available to read at: https://www.un.org/unispal/document/special-rapporteur-report-gaza-genocide-a-collective-crime-20oct25/ 
[ARTICLE] Fiona Godlee, “I was arrested for peacefully protesting against genocide—why ourmedical leaders need to speak up”, British Medical JournalAvailable to read at: https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/390/bmj.r1994.full.pdf 
[ARTICLE] Richard Horton, “Offline: Can public health overcome its colonial history?”, LancetAvailable to read at: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02554-6/fulltext 
[ARTICLE] Kamran Abbasi, “Where genocide, healthocide, and atrocities start, medical neutrality ends”, British Medical JournalAvailable to read at: https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2120 
[ARTICLE] Roberto De Vogli, Jonathan Montomoli, Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Ilan Pappé, “Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza”, LancetAvailable to read at: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01541-7/fulltext