Health Work Committees (HWC)
Palestinians suffer inhumane health conditions under the 15-year blockade of Gaza

A human rights report reveals how the Israeli apartheid regime’s blockade of Gaza prevents Palestinians from accessing their human right to health

Palestinian health activist Shatha Odeh released from Israeli imprisonment

60-year-old Odeh has been freed after spending 11 months in arbitrary detention following her arrest by Israeli Occupation Forces in July 2021

Israel sentences Palestinian nurse and health activist Shatha Odeh to 16 months in prison

On International Nurses Day, an Israeli military tribunal gave nurse and health activist Shatha Odeh a 16-month prison sentence. was given a 5 year suspended sentence on the condition that she does not provide health servicesfeat

Shatha Odeh trial 7 months after her arrest, Shatha Odeh’s case is emblematic of Israeli attack on Palestinian civil society

Shatha Odeh, the director of the Health Work Committees, has been in jail since July 2021 during which time she contracted COVID-19. Her case is a microcosm of Israel’s attempts to eliminate all voices critical of its discriminatory policies