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Law professor reacts to news of Netanyahu’s surgery

Adil Haque, a law professor at Rutgers University, responded to reports that Netanyahu’s surgery was done under full anaesthesia, by noting that the Israeli leader is accused of preventing the entry of anaesthetics into the Gaza Strip.

“One of the crimes against humanity with which the [International Criminal Court] ICC charged Netanyahu involves intentionally limiting or preventing anaesthetics from entering Gaza,” Haque wrote in a post on X.

The professor quoted from the ICC complaint, which said: “Doctors [in Gaza] were forced to operate on wounded persons and carry out amputations, including on children, without anaesthetics.”


UN special rapporteur calls for global medical boycott of Israel

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, has urged medical professionals around the world to sever ties with Israel as a direct response to the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system.

“I urge medical professionals worldwide to pursue the severance of all ties with Israel as a concrete way to forcefully denounce Israel’s full destruction of the Palestinian healthcare system in Gaza, a critical tool of its ongoing genocide,” Albanese said on X.

Albanese’s statement comes as the ongoing conflict continues to devastate Palestinian infrastructure, with Gaza’s medical facilities being severely affected by Israeli military forces.

Her comments reflect growing international concern about the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where hospitals and clinics have been targeted and overwhelmed by relentless violence.

A lack of essential medical supplies, infrastructure damage and the loss of life have left Gaza’s health sector struggling to cope.


Gaza crisis ‘has reached unbearable breaking point’: IOM

The head of the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) is reminding the world that infants are dying of the freezing cold in Gaza while hospitals and shelters for displaced Palestinians are bombed and destroyed by Israeli forces.

“Member States must act now to prevent further devastation and restore hope for peace in 2025,” Amy Pope said in a post on X.

Close to 2 million people, or 90 percent of the population in the enclave, has been internally displaced, some numerous times, as a result of Israeli military attacks in the past 15 months.