{"id":1271,"date":"2024-02-10T20:42:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T04:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2024-02-10T21:18:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T05:18:36","slug":"defunding-unwra-in-gaza-is-collective-punishment-lancet-health-justice-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/defunding-unwra-in-gaza-is-collective-punishment-lancet-health-justice-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Defunding UNWRA in Gaza is &#8216;collective punishment&#8217; &#8211; Lancet &#038; Health Justice Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health and political leaders globally have condemned defunding of UNRWA, the principle lifeline for the people of Gaza.\u00a0 Sharmila Devi, in the current issue of Lancet, quotes UN leaders and aid agency leaders (including WHO) &#8220;no other entity has the capacity to deliver the scale and breadth of assistance that 2\u00b72 million people in Gaza urgently need,&#8221;\u00a0 the cuts are &#8220;collective punishment,&#8221; and &#8220;if a teacher is found to be a murderer, we don\u2019t get calls to defund the school where they worked.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www-sciencedirect-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu\/science\/article\/pii\/S0140673624002332\">https:\/\/www-sciencedirect-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu\/science\/article\/pii\/S0140673624002332<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Health GAP, the Peoples Health Movement,\u00a0 the Health Justice Initiative, and nine other organizations that have <strong>historically worked on issues of health justice and access to medicines have condemned the defunding as an &#8220;<\/strong>ACT OF DEPRAVITY AND ENABLES A GENOCIDE.&#8221;\u00a0 They write that &#8220;in taking the decision to pause funding to UNRWA at this CRITICAL time when a\u00a0<strong>real risk of hunger, disease, starvation, and famine looms in Gaza<\/strong>, these countries and donors are enabling a worsening humanitarian disaster and a genocide that cruelly depends on aid deprivation. They are not standing on the right side of history or for humanity \u2013 and their double standards must now be called out by more of us in the global health community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"JSykM9FFMB\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthgap.org\/press\/health-activist-groups-defunding-unrwa-in-gaza-is-an-act-of-depravity-and-enables-a-genocide\/\">HEALTH ACTIVIST GROUPS: DEFUNDING UNRWA IN GAZA IS AN ACT OF DEPRAVITY AND ENABLES A GENOCIDE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;HEALTH ACTIVIST GROUPS: DEFUNDING UNRWA IN GAZA IS AN ACT OF DEPRAVITY AND ENABLES A GENOCIDE&#8221; &#8212; Health GAP (Global Access Project)\" src=\"https:\/\/healthgap.org\/press\/health-activist-groups-defunding-unrwa-in-gaza-is-an-act-of-depravity-and-enables-a-genocide\/embed\/#?secret=jJVrC3mjzy#?secret=JSykM9FFMB\" data-secret=\"JSykM9FFMB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health and political leaders globally have condemned defunding of UNRWA, the principle lifeline for the people of Gaza.\u00a0 Sharmila Devi, in the current issue of Lancet, quotes UN leaders and aid agency leaders (including WHO) &#8220;no other entity has the capacity to deliver the scale and breadth of assistance that 2\u00b72 million people in Gaza urgently need,&#8221;\u00a0 the cuts are &#8220;collective punishment,&#8221; and &#8220;if a teacher is found to be a murderer, we don\u2019t get calls to defund the school&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30,138,102,136,81,54,98,99,71,92,83,46,93,25,29,64,100,94,78,137,24],"media_type_reference":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-militarism","tag-apartheid","tag-collective-punishment","tag-equity","tag-gaza","tag-global-health","tag-global-health-justice","tag-health-equity","tag-healthcare-access","tag-healthcare-workplace-violence","tag-human-rights-violations","tag-inequality","tag-international-aid","tag-international-responsibility","tag-militarism","tag-palestine","tag-social-determinants-of-health","tag-social-justice","tag-stop-the-bloodshed","tag-the-lancet","tag-unwra","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"media_type_reference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type_reference?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}