Sunday 5/18 at 12 PM EST
Doctors Against Genocide Weekly Update - Scholasticide in Palestine + Live Updates from Doctors in Gaza
Please join this important webinar on the Scholasticide in Palestine
URGENT UPDATES FROM GAZA
In this week’s webinar we start with urgent updates from Gaza as Israel’s campaign of extermination intensifies with widespread starvation and relentless bombing.
SCHOLASTICIDE - We then address scholasticide, the intentional destruction of educational infrastructure and personnel. We will be centering voices from Gaza and the West Bank on the state of schools and universities across Palestine.
We will also consider how scholasticide manifests in higher education in the West through repression, defunding, and the termination of partnerships.
The webinar closes with the rollout of a new Doctors Against Genocide initiative, NABQA HUNA (We Will Stay!), which supports the piloting of reconstruction initiatives in the health and education sectors in Gaza
Live Updates from Gaza Doctors
Dr. Munir Al Bursh: Director General of Gaza Health System
Dr. Ahmad Al Farra: Head of Pediatric Department in Khan Younis-Gaza
Speakers on Scholasticide
Sundos Hammad, Director, Birzeit University Right to Education Campaign. An overview of scholasticide at both the university and school levels, in Gaza and across Palestine.
Ahmed Abushaban, Emergency Committee of Universities in Gaza. The state of university education in Gaza and the importance of the committee in building continuity for current students and strengthening infrastructure after Israel’s intentional campaign to destroy the higher education sector.
Karameh Kuemmerle, Doctors Against Genocide Leadership. The termination of Harvard University’s relationship with Birzeit University and the need to rebuild institutional relationships with Palestine.
Tom Pedroni, Doctors Against Genocide. Campus repression in the U.S. as an element of global Scholasticide.
Nidal Jboor and Maysa Hawash, Doctors Against Genocide leadership. Launching the NABQA HUNA campaign for rebuilding school and health care infrastructure.
Mohammed Alazzami (likely via pre-recorded video) Nabqa Huna pilot launch at Fakhoura School Jabalya Camp.
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Our Call to Action: Bread Not Bombs Let The Children Eat
We call on POTUS and Elected Officials in the USA and Canada to:
• Enforce a permanent ceasefire,
• End the Deliberate Starvation and allow unrestricted humanitarian access
• Investigate and prosecute the use of starvation as a weapon
• Invoke the Uniting for Peace resolution to bypass Security Council paralysis and end the genocide now.