This photo released by Dr. Marawan Abu Saada shows prematurely born Palestinian babies in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. Gaza’s Shifa Hospital has become the focus of a days-long stalemate in Israel’s war against Hamas. Israel claims Hamas uses the facility for military purposes and has built a vast underground command center below the hospital. Since Israel declared war against Hamas, its forces have moved in on Shifa. But hundreds of doctors and patients remain inside. (Dr. Marawan Abu Saada, AP Photos)
By a vote of 136-458, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association shut down a call to debate a resolution to support a ceasefire in Gaza, with the reasoning that it did not meet criteria of advocacy, urgency or ethical consideration.
They claimed geopolitical issues are beyond their purview. However, the AMA is the largest coalition of physicians in the U.S. and has long engaged in international health policy and advocacy.
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