Hospitals in Gaza are at a breaking point. Without immediate entry of aid, essential health care services will come to a halt. I visited Gaza in 2018. Access to care was already difficult. I know firsthand that a mass evacuation to the enclave's south would be disastrous - for

paho IARC 3rd #AlcoholIssues top story 💥What Are NGO Strategies Targeting the Commercial Determinants of Health? via Dr Bel Townsend Rob Ralston Timothy Johnson Fran Baum 👉🏿movendi.ngo/science-digest… 🔎Identified 18 NGO ‘inside’ & ‘outside’ strategies targeting gvmnts & #CDoH #GAPC2023

Save the Children are reporting that more children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in the past three weeks than the annual number of all children killed in all conflict zones around the world in the past five years.

"This morning, I had palpitations. I was thinking whether I should let #RHDCongress know that I could not be on the panel. This is what we as patients with #RHD have to deal with." Anu Gomanju grabs the attention of the entire room, stressing need to include patients & families.

.World Health Organization (WHO) has lost communication with its contacts in Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza. As horrifying reports of the hospital facing repeated attacks continue to emerge, we assume our contacts joined tens of thousands of displaced people and are fleeing the area. ⬇️

🧡 BE PART OF OUR NEW STUDY If you’re a teen or adult with congenital #heartdisease, or a parent of a person (any age) with #CHD, we want to hear from you! Tell us what you like & dislike about the words used to talk about #CHD Click for our survey: redcap.sswahs.nsw.gov.au/surveys/?s=HYH…

Today's Google Doodle celebrates pioneering heart transplant surgeon Dr Victor Chang's 87th birthday. Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute google.com/doodles/dr-vic…

I met Marwa earlier this week. She will break your heart too. #Gaza is FULL of this potential.

Some personal reflections on the night before returning home. Part of me will remain forever behind.

‘People will die in the streets’: Gaza dreads onset of winter as disease rises theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

Academics need to get serious about the boycott. Check whether your university has a clear policy in line with BDS, and if not mobilize with your colleagues, students and your union to implement one.

Israel has destroyed all the universities in Gaza. Every single one of them. That is a war crime, pure and simple. It’s the obliteration of education and Palestinian future. Every university in the world should be outraged.

Great ABC Radio National Conversations episode with self confessed "Big Bird" and non-traditional academic Dr Liz Allen. Well worth a listen. Dr Liz Allen pca.st/episode/4ad41b…

UN special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt warns countries like Australia that they are "most likely violating their obligations under the Genocide Convention" by cutting funding to UNRWA - Senator Penny Wong Anthony Albanese

"The Australian Government collects more money from HECS than it does from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. "Thank you, children. You're the backbone of our economy, not the gas industry." Executive Director Richard Denniss at National Press Club @RDNS_TAI #auspol

There are no words.

“There is no health system to speak of left in #Gaza. Israel’s military has dismantled hospital after hospital. What remains is so little in the face of such carnage.” MSF Secretary General Chris Lockyear briefs the United Nations Security Council. Read more 👇 msf.org/msf-briefing-g…

“I say to Penny Wong, I say to the Australians, aid must be restored because you are now complicit in a slow motion massacre” - former UNRWA chief spokesperson Chris Gunness Senator Penny Wong Anthony Albanese #Gaza

Australia's media, just like much of mainstream Western media, struggles to report honestly on Israel-Palestine. But then, you hear a brilliant journalist like John Lyon, and one regains hope. John Lyons

"The ongoing Nakba must be stopped and remedied once and for all." - Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt calls on States to fulfil their obligations under the Genocide Convention to prevent further loss of life in #Gaza. ohchr.org/en/press-relea… #HRC55