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Healthcare Workers for Palestine

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Excerpt from flyer of Sept. 15, 2026

[Every Tuesday, from noon till 1 p.m., Doctors Against Genocide and Healthcare Workers for Palestine CT hold a vigil. They display banners and hand out flyers in front of Yale New Haven Hospital at the corner of Cedar and York streets. All are welcome to join the vigil in support of Palestinian rights. Information is on Instagram at hcw4pct.]

The human rights organization B’Tselem has just published a 249-page report titled “The Elimination Project.” It states that “Israel is pursuing a goal of comprehensive erasure of Palestinian life …openly, directly and violently…and increasingly relies on cooperation between official state authorities and settler militias operating in the West Bank with state backing and support.” The campaign of elimination relies on violence and intimidation, restrictions on movement, economic strangulation, social and political destruction, ethnic cleansing and territorial takeover. An example of this policy is the decision to merge two nearby settlements to form a barrier between East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. It concludes that the results of the upcoming October elections are unlikely to change this policy regardless of who wins.

Groups to Honor Dr. Abu Safiya for Nobel Peace Prize 2026 Nomination

by Stanley Heller, Middle East Crisis Committee

On Sunday, March 1, groups will honor Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been in Israeli custody since Dec. 2024, and who has been nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The event will take place at the Palestine Museum US, 1764 Litchfield Turnpike in Woodbridge, starting at 3 p.m.

The main speaker at the event will be Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle, one of the co-founders of Doctors Against Genocide. Also speaking will be Rabbi Abby Chava Stein. Stein is an active member of the rabbinical group T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the abducted director of the now forcibly-closed Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, has been imprisoned by Israel for near 14 months. He has not been formally charged with anything, no evidence of wrongdoing has been advanced, but it is claimed he is an “unlawful combatant.”

Dr. Abu Safiya was nominated by Dr. Carol Gray, Assistant Professor of Public Law, Department of Political Science at the University of Fairbanks in Alaska. Dr. Gray noted that “Choosing Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya would spotlight the horrific genocide in Gaza as well as the incredible courage of the Palestinian people who have endured so much. It might also save his life.”

For more information and for tickets: https://pmu.betterworld.org/events/abu-safiya. Other contact info: see FreeDrAbuSafiya.org, phone 203-444-3578, or email mail@thestruggle.org.