🎙️ Season 2 of This Authoritarian Life begins at one of today’s most tragic frontlines: Gaza.

In this episode, we talk with Guy Shalev, anthropologist and executive director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, about how medicine has become a political weapon in Israel’s war on Gaza and in the broader occupation of Palestine.

How has Palestinian healthcare been de-developed over the years and what did this mean for the residents of the West Bank and Gaza before the genocide? What were the possibilities and limitations of human rights work before and after October 7? How have Israeli medical institutions been complicit in the destruction of Palestinian lives? And can there still be space for accountability after such devastation?

🎧 To find out, tune into This Authoritarian Life, Season 2, Episode 1 — Politics of Life and Death: Gaza and the Weaponization of Medicine, with Kristóf Szombati and Erdem Evren.

Read more on...

-why the cumulative dismantling of Gaza’s health system amounts to genocide: https://www.phr.org.il/en/genocide-in-gaza-eng/

-the complicity of the Israeli medical establishment: https://archive.ph/lzxNc

-the torture of medical staff from Gaza in Israel: https://www.phr.org.il/en/torture-of-medical-workers/

-the blocking of medical evacuations: https://www.phr.org.il/en/urgent-call-for-humanitarian-corridor/

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