While Gaza Strip bombing keep going on by Israel and Hamas, the international scientific community has just keep to hear his voice in order to avoid the escalation of conflict and the medical and humanitariam emergency.
A letter-complaint was published last days on Lancet, the important british medical journal by 24 doctors and scientists, mainly Italian and English, including Paola Manduca, a geneticist at the University of Genoa, Iain Chalmers, cofounder of Cohocran Collaboration, among the first signatories, Derek Summerfield and Angelo Stefanini, WHO observer in the occupied territories, among others.
In the letter the group of physicians, geneticists, psychiatrists, chemists, explains the reasons why they ask for an immediate end to the bombing of the Gaza Strip and they refer directly, and exclusively, to the Israeli army. They rapresent a list of international acclaimed scientists who, are as knowledgeable about Israeli-Palestinian conflict enents and about the humanitarian situation in the Middle East, in addition to professionally deal with their preservation of human life every days' work: "All of us have already worked in Gaza and we are denouncing what we are witnessing since years now".
In the document they recall that the Gaza Strip is under embargo since 2006, while the "survival of 80% of the population is dependent on food supplies of the United Nations" and that since 2008 this one is the third military intervention in Gaza the consequences of which have "repercussions above all women and children ", while it is not possible to reconstruct buildings destroyed by bombing, where they had established major resource for the community, schools and hospitals. In the rest of the territory, stress the authors of the letter, often for the it is not possible for the injured to access the primary health care services, since the circulation in the territory is compromised by constant roadblocks. The health effects are also including psychological ones, considering that "everyone in Gaza, first af alla the children are terrified"
In conclusion, the petitioners point the finger at fellow Israeli doctors who do not report the severity of the situation, so blotting of "complicity."
Here is the text of the letter and the signatories list
Gaza, italian and british scientists denunce on Lancet
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