This week we mark the World Health Day. Here, in PHRI, medical professionals join forces because they believe there is an alternative to current reality – that we can and should work for human rights of people we treat. In the different communities, in our Health Maintenance Organizations, in the public spheres, – citizens, residents, migrants or Palestinians in the OPT – all need equal access to health.

We refuse to comply to a policy that widens the gaps and the structural violence, and we struggle to correct the wrongs, and to be faithful to the physician’s oath to do no harm. Together we take it on ourselves to challenge the implications of corporations and governments that cause distorted distribution of budget, that prefer profit over health. In face of those who try to convince us that a benefit to one community is necessarily on the expense of the other, we wish to put an alternative that does not grade rights, but offers solidarity and equality.