Amnesty International continues to call urgently for the Israeli authorities to respect medical neutrality as set out in the Geneva Conventions of August 1949 and the 1977 Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions and to permit those in need of medical care to obtain it. It is also calling on Palestinian armed groups to end the practice of targeting civilians and to respect medical neutrality. Amnesty International is again urging health professional bodies to protest at these breaches and to reaffirm principles of both humanitarian law and medical ethics in the current conflict.
