It continued that it\u00a0\u201cdeeply values inclusion and believes engagement with its 117 constituent national medical association members is vital to advancing health and medical ethics globally.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreserving dialogue and cooperation among physicians internationally is essential in a world fractured by escalating conflicts and humanitarian crises.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IMA, one of our founding members and a strong advocate for WMA ethics and policies, has engaged in the development of our statements on Gaza, and has itself approached the Israeli government with shared concerns from the medical profession on many occasions.<\/p>\n
The IMA also rejected the allegations, describing them as \u201cat worst, lies, and at best, highly contested allegations presented as fact\u201d.<\/p>\n
It added that calls for its expulsion \u201cseem to confuse a country’s government with its medical association, an extremely dangerous precedent\u201d and that \u201cthe petition ignores any role of Hamas in the destruction of Gaza’s health-care system, such as their deliberate strategy of hiding beneath and within hospitals and using hospitals for military command centers and ammunition storage, in violation of Article 19 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among those backing the campaign for the\u00a0suspension\u00a0of the IMA is Leslie London, a professor at the University of Cape Town and member of PHM South Africa, who accused the IMA of having \u201ccolluded in the unspeakable treatment of Palestinians during this war\u201d.<\/p>\n
Two more medical professionals are quoted in The Lancet:\u00a0Juliette Mattijsen, a Dutch doctor and co-coordinator of PHM Europe, said that the IMA is \u201cnot upholding its medical oath\u201d and Derek Summerfield, honorary senior clinical lecturer at King’s College London, who\u00a0claimed\u00a0that the IMA has \u201cbroken every WMA rule in the book\u201d.<\/p>\n
The PHM wants the issue of suspending the IMA from the WMA to appear on the agenda of the WMA general assembly, which is held annually.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s event is being held in Rotterdam, beginning on October 7, which coincides with the third anniversary of the Hamas attacks in Israel, and lasting until October 10.<\/p>\n
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal, founded in England in 1823, and is considered one of the world\u2019s most impactful academic journals.<\/p>\n
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