Gaza Genocide: Medical Ethics & Institutional Failures

In March, 2024, Safiyyah Abbas and Lucy Mitchell1 highlighted the atrocities unfolding in Gaza and the failure of Australian medical institutions to mount a meaningful protest. Since then, the Israeli Government’s sustained and widespread assaults on civilians—combined with deliberate obstruction of food, water, fuel, and medical supplies—have prompted the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare, and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhuman acts.