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Mendocino For Palestine Responds to WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION call to action

Fundraiser and Film Showing: Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
Evening of April 18th (Time TBD)
Valerie in Mendocino, 10546 Lansing Street 

We are told that there is a cease-fire in Gaza, and now a “Peace Plan” in the process of implementation. This is not true. On the contrary, since the cease-fire was announced, more than 500 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 1,800 injured. This in addition to 75,000 people the journal Lancet reports killed since the Israeli onslaught began, the majority women, children and elderly.
At the same time, the systematic destruction of what is left of the Gazan infrastructure continues – homes, schools, water treatment plants, healthcare facilities and bakeries are routinely targeted.
At this time, 20,000 Palestinians await medical evacuation – many of them children and young people with amputated limbs, embedded shrapnel, burns and communicable disease.  
Since the alleged reopening of the Rafah gate, only a handful have been allowed to make the crossing into Egypt. And now, as the US/Israeli war on Iran rages, all the gates are shut again, bringing back fears of starvation. 
In many ways healthcare providers have borne the brunt of this catastrophe. Thirty-eight hospitals in Gaza have been destroyed or rendered non-functioning since the beginning of the assault.  1700 healthcare workers have been killed, often targeted by Israeli assassins. More than 300 healthcare workers languish in Israeli prisons, where torture is commonplace, including Dr. Abu Safia, a pediatrician and hospital director abducted as he approached an Israeli tank, hoping to save his hospital.
The siege on Gaza has prevented medical supplies like IV catheters and fluids, surgical tools, prosthetics, replacement parts for medical machinery, suction devices and oxygen tubing from coming into the strip. The Israelis prevent infant formula, fresh food, pain meds and shelter materials from entering Gaza calling these necessities “dual use.”
Still, rarely reported, the resistance continues. Palestinian and international doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers work in the face of unbelievable odds.  Then, astonishingly, just this winter, 150 medical students completed their training in Gaza – this gives us hope for the future.
Gaza presents a challenge for us – healthcare providers in the US.  We can help break the silence.
In the face of ongoing violence (apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide) and continued destruction of what remains of the healthcare infrastructure, and consistent with our fundamental professional and moral obligations, we can contribute to and help sustain our Palestinian brothers and sisters.  
We have formed a branch of Doctors against Genocide here on the North Coast.  A first project of ours, in cooperation with Mendocino for Palestine, is premiering the acclaimed film “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack,” a film which documents the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and the murder of healthcare providers. Discussion to follow, led by a doctor returned from Gaza. 
Please join us to bear witness and contribute to Gaza’s medical capacities. All proceeds will go towards urgent medical supplies and supporting healthcare in Gaza.  

doctorsagainstgenocide.org

For more information or to contribute contact mendoforpalestine@gmail.com

“What do Palestine, Hiroshima and Gaza Have in Common?”

Nancy Wallace Nelson was part of a delegation to Palestine in April 2025, and she attended the international conference of Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in Nagasaki and Hiroshima in October 2025.

NOTE: This talk was originally scheduled for 1/11/26, but has been postponed.

Details are being finalized for her talk. Check back for more info, or sign up to our email list! https://mendoforpalestine.org/contact/

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Want to join our organizing team? Email us at mendoforpalestine@gmail.com