Pressure mounts to suspend Israeli medical association from global body
📰 Middle East Eye · 📅 Jun 15, 2026, 12:17 PM · 🌐 middleeasteye.net
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Pressure mounts to suspend Israeli medical association from global body
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Pressure mounts to suspend Israeli medical association from global body Submitted by MEE staff on Mon, 06/15/2026 - 12:34 Petition calls for World Medical Association to remove Israeli organisation over 'failure to uphold core medical ethical standards' The damage at the entrance of a hospital near the site where an Israeli air strike struck a building the previous day in the southern port city of Tyre, 2 June 2026 (AFP) Off Calls for the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) to be suspended from the World Medical Association (WMA) are growing, after over a thousand people including prominent medics signed a petition calling for the Israeli body’s removal.
Pressure mounts to suspend Israeli medical association from global body Submitted by MEE staff on Mon, 06/15/2026 - 12:34 Petition calls for World Medical Association to remove Israeli organisation over 'failure to uphold core medical ethical standards' The damage at the entrance of a hospital near the site where an Israeli air strike struck a building the previous day in the southern port city of Tyre, 2 June 2026 (AFP) Off Calls for the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) to be suspended from the World Medical Association (WMA) are growing, after over a thousand people including prominent medics signed a petition calling for the Israeli body’s removal. A petition organised by The People’s Health Movement , Dutch organisation Artsen voor Gaza (Doctors for Gaza), as well as the health wing of Jewish Voice for Peace said that the IMA was failing “to uphold core medical ethical standards, including the WMA Declarations of Geneva and Tokyo”. It alleged that the IMA was also complicit in “serious violations of medical neutrality and human rights” committed by Israel’s government and military. It called on the global body to suspend Israel ahead of the General Assembly in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, in early October. The petition has more than 1,300 signatories, including a number of well known health professionals, as well as organisations such as Health Workers for Palestine in Spain, Doctors Against Genocide based in the US, as well as Health Alliance for Democracy in the Phillipines. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); It notes that Israeli forces have attacked healthcare in Palestine , Lebanon and Iran , and have killed, detained and obstructed healthcare professionals. It states that Israeli medical professionals were complicit in the inhumane treatment of Palestinians within Israeli prisons, by failing to document and investigate violations of medical ethics over the past three decades. It added that Palestinians have worse health services than Isr
