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Aisyah Llewellyn

‘Scream to the world, stop genocide’: Indonesian medics rally for Gaza

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Dr Sarbini Abdul Murad, front left, head of the Indonesian medical charity MER-C, attends a prayer event in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 17, 2023 in support of the people of Gaza and to demand a ceasefire and the protection of medical staff and facilities from Israeli attack [Photo courtesy of MER-C]

Medan, Indonesia – Indonesian medics have held a communal prayer event in Jakarta to call for a ceasefire and an end to the “genocide” in Gaza where the Indonesia Hospital, located in the north of the war-torn Palestinian enclave, has been forced to cease operations.

The event held in Jakarta and online included staff from Indonesia’s doctors’, midwives’, pharmacists’ and dentists’ associations, and was organised by the Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C) which helped fund the construction of the Indonesian Hospital in 2011.

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