This statement was drafted by an ad hoc group of rank-and-file healthcare workers in New York City. Fellow healthcare workers, unions, union caucuses, volunteers, students, and organizations should feel free to sign on and share.

Words cannot express the devastation and despair we feel for the people of Gaza. Our hearts break for the critically ill patients with dwindling access to oxygen, electricity, clean water, and other basic necessities we take for granted as healthcare workers in the United States. Our hearts break for the tiny neonates, whose life-sustaining equipment will fail if fuel runs out, and for the injured children and elders languishing in crowded and under-resourced emergency departments. Our hearts break for the grieving families who are unable to properly honor their dead due to the sheer volume of casualties..

Our hearts also break for the Israelis who were killed or injured during the horrific Hamas attacks. We hope all survivors will continue to receive the top tier medical care for which Israel is renowned. We mourn that the distance of a few miles means the difference between sophisticated medical care and dire conditions faced by Gazan healthcare workers and patients. We refuse to believe that one person's life is more valuable than another’s, or that nationality should determine who deserves to live or die.

As we tend to our patients in well-lit healthcare facilities, surrounded by the buzz of life-saving monitors and machines, we are acutely aware that thousands of Gazans are facing homelessness, injury, illness, and death as a result of both Israel's airstrikes and its deadly siege. These circumstances are compounded by the 16-year blockade that has left Gaza destitute and isolated. 

As US healthcare workers, we vowed to protect life. Our professional ethics and our humanity require us to advocate for the just provision of medical care. It is in this spirit that we publicly demand an end to the US-backed Israeli Defence Force campaign targeting residential neighborhoods, schools, places of worship, healthcare facilities, and other civilian targets. We also demand an end to the blockade preventing humanitarian aid, medical supplies, and healthcare workers from entering Gaza. 

Finally, we demand that our own healthcare institutions take a stand whenever healthcare workers, hospitals, and patients are under attack. Several US healthcare systems have thus far only acknowledged the suffering of Israelis in their public statements and memos to employees. We call upon these healthcare systems to recognize the humanity and the suffering of Palestinian civilians, and support international organizations and frontline workers struggling to provide urgently-needed healthcare in Gaza. 

Robina Khalid, Self employed midwife

Jacquelyn Hedrick, BSN, RN

Lauren Hollender

Sharlotte Irwin

Kayley Scruggs, MSN, CNM, WHNP-BC

Samantha Street, Little Ember Doula

Jackie Clark

Claudia Gerbracht, CLC & Student Nurse

R. Khan

Columbia White Coats for Black Lives

NYUGSOM

Columbia VP&S Muslim Students Association

Kate Nichols, LMT

Claire Mudd RN, BSN

Jenn Sugijanto, Medical Student

Emily Xu, medical student

CUNY School of Medicine DWD

Arsal Yousafzai, MPH

Zucker SOM Muslim Medical Students Association

Muslim Medical Student Association, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra

Jorge Pincay/SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University/Medical Student

Medical Student at NYMC

Habiba Shafa/SUNY Downstate School of Health Professions/ Occupational Therapy M.S.

Omar Kawam/ Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/ Student

Steven B. Auerbach, MD, MPH, FAAP / Capt/06 | Senior Medical Epidemiologist, U.S. Public Health Service (retired)

Anonymous medical student, Brooklyn

Angelique Saavedra, Nurse Practitioner

Sameer

Sarriyah Hanif, MD OBGYN PGY-1 at Mount Sinai

Keriann Uno, CNM, APRN, Department of Health Reproductive Heath Nurse Consultant

Tess Wolterstorff, RN

Sima Kahn, MD

Anaïs Tuepker, PhD, MPH, Oregon Health & Science University

Daisy Goodman, DNP, CNM, MPH, Dartmouth Health

Nicole Massad, MD

Sean Petty, RN, NYSNA

Sarah Lage, MSW

Michael Pappas, MD

Audrey Huigens RN/NYC HHC

Eugenia Montesinos CNM

Hannah Marcus

Shefali Hegde MD

Umair Azhar/Medical Student

Anonymous Medical Student, NYC

NYU EMS-EMT

Jasmine Verret, WHNP-BC

Marlen Tavira-Garcia, RN, BSN, PCCN

Jenessa Payano Stark, CNM, WHNP, CPM

SUNY Downstate

Morgen Owens, MD

Helen Xu, medical student

Tonatiuh Gonzalez

Roshan Chudhry/Weill Cornell Medicine/Medical Student

Joanna Lin, medical student

Azim Munivar, MD

Ivy Acosta

Hilary Tore, CCHW, MHA student

Alice Rothchild, Jewish Voice for Peace; We Are Not Numbers; Gaza Mental Health Foundation

Katherine German, RN

Ellen Isaacs, MD/ JVP, APHA

Bill Slaughter M.D.

Ann Finkelstein, La Clinica de la Raza

J.Julty,PA-C

Eden Almasude, MD

Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, MPH, PhD

Julianna Alson, MPH

Robert Schwab, LCSW

Sophie Howard

Christine Schmidt, LCSW Racial Literacy Groups

Robin Simon

Margaret Mary Downey/Tulane University School of Social Work/Asst. Professor

Jillian Rausa, MPH

Susie Baldwin, MD, MPH, FACPM

Terry Schleder, MPH

Guleer Shahab, MPH

Women's Health Institute

Ret USCG Veteran

Tania Perez, MPH

Alaina Elliott-Wherry, MPH

Bram Wispelwey, Harvard Medical School

Karyn Pomerantz, Progressive Labor Party

New York University Nursing Student

Kylah Le

John Guy MB BS MRCGP (London)

Marta Guttenberg MD, JVPA

Lana Aldos, MSPH

Mary Storll, MSW

Lucrecia Souza, nursing student

Carolyn Bernier, CNM

Masil Magee

Isabella T-S, AMFT

Sanam Roder-DeWan, MD, DrPH family physician

Deborah Cohan, MD MOH

Sarah Wozniak, MD student Weill Cornell Medical College

Sarah Hoque

Neil Rudis, RN BSN

Nathan Lee, MD ‘24

Sarah MD PHD

Danielle Rossoni, MSPH

Michael Schnitzius, MPH

Veronica Carnero, Nursing Student

Fatima, nursing student

Dayeong Hwang/ SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University / nursing student

Kiru Sivanesathasan, Nursing Student

Grace Powell, nursing student

Daniel Lugassy

Katherine Schaff, DrPH, MPH

Dima Qato

Warren Bell MD

Student Nurse

Maher Kazimi, MD, MPH

Seja Abudiab

RF

Candace Cross, MPHc

Lauren Lederle, MD

Victoria Lanza, MPH

Rev. DL Helfer, LCSW

TD MD NY

Andie Chao, student clinician (SLP-M.A.)

Phi Le, DO

Erik Wang, MD, Weill-Cornell Medical Center

Sonia Dettmann, LICSW

Morry El-Badry, MD affiliated with Jewish Voices for Peace

Rachel Salloway, APRN

Arlene Tolopko, Cafe Palestina

Andrew Goldstein, MD

Margaret McGregor, MD (Vancouver, Canada)

Debbie Nguyen, FNP-BC

Kim Truong

james squire, JVP

Dev Mayaan

Shelby Mulrennan, FNP

Muna Sheikh, MD

Yael Flam, LMSW

Sandy Eaton, RN

Lauren Textor, PhD, MD

Emily Antoon-Walsh MD

Shannon, Medical Student

Eleanor Gottesman MD

Linda Thyer, MDCM

Dana Iorio

greer x, Student Nurse

newweapons research group

Ryan Pryor, MSN, CNM, FNP

Suzanne Artemieff

Nicole DeNuccio, CNM

Anne-Emanuelle Birn

George Truong, MD

Donald Pelles

SM

Bob Mason, clinical social worker, (ret.)

Jillian Primiano, RN

Nada Terra, Medical Student

Linval Deppas, JVP

Adjoa Mante, MD

Columbia University VP&S Equity and Justice Fellows

Serena Mathews, MD

Bhavana Patil

Michi Osato, L.Ac

Reem Abu-Sbaih, D O. Palestinian American Medical Association PAMA