Friday 11 April 2025 05:02 GMT

DAG calls for urgent measures to halt genocide in Gaza


(MENAFN) On Wednesday, a meeting of Doctors Against Genocide (DAG), a coalition of healthcare experts, who fight against the genocide in Gaza, was held in Washington, DC. They joined the Senate to call for immediate measures that ends the Genocide in Gaza.
More than one hundred doctors, nurses and medical experts were brought together on Capitol Hill by the global group of healthcare staff, (DAG).
"We are here because our duty as medical professionals does not stop at the hospital doors. It is our responsibility to protect life and to sound the alarm when we witness crimes against humanity,” they said.
Dr. Nidal Jboor, one of the founders of DAG, informed journalists at a press meeting in the Hart Building, "what is happening to the Palestinian people is genocide, and it is funded by our tax dollars. We refuse to be complicit. We demand that the Senate take immediate action."
Jboor reported that the coalition calls for funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) to be reinstated. They also called for putting an end to the compulsory evacuation of Palestinians.

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