Complicit': World Medical Association criticised for rejecting calls to suspend Israel

The World Medical Association (WMA) is facing heavy criticism after refusing to suspend the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) despite allegations that Israeli doctors were involved in torture of Palestinian detainees and abuses in Gaza. A petition with 6,500 medical personnel from the IMA Out! campaign was presented to the WMA General Assembly in Rotterdam, where hundreds of doctors protested, including some carrying a shroud with the names of 18,000 Palestinian children killed in Gaza. Protesters say the IMA failed to uphold medical ethics standards and to penalize potential perpetrators, including those linked to deaths of Palestinian healthcare workers in Israeli prisons.