Over 3,500 people took up the call to write to their own elected official, to tell Canada to take action to lift Israel’s ban on international humanitarian doctors is not only evil and cruel , it is also illegal and has to be challenged.
2024 October 30 – On 28 October, the Glia team was informed that we are no longer banned from entry into Gaza by Israel. This positive step is the result of the incredible efforts of governments, organizations, and activists who came together to advocate for the banned organizations to regain access.
Our team is relieved and excited to resume our work, however we remain extremely concerned that so many organizations, including ours, were arbitrarily banned in the first place. We were not given any rationale for our ban, nor its revocation. Banning our organization is part of a concerted and escalating campaign of denying Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere their basic human rights to health and health care.
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