Health care workers hold vigil for Gaza
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Drexel University medical students held a vigil April 8 for the 485 health care workers killed by U.S.-supplied Israeli bombs, snipers and Israeli Occupation Forces soldiers in gross violation of international laws. They gathered in the late afternoon outside the Drexel University Health Science Bui

The very moving event, attended by about 50 people, was organized by Drexel Medical Students for Palestine.

On the sidewalks outside the building entrance, “blood-stained” medical scrubs were on display, many with pictures and short stories about doctors and nurses killed in the last several months during the IOF assaults on hospitals and other health care facilities in Gaza. Only 12 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals remain open, all 12 in partially functioning condition with limited access to medicine and supplies.

On an elevated wall alongside the sidewalk, pictures were displayed on concrete slabs of several messages written by people killed in the Al-Shifa Hospital medical complex. The IOF had executed over 400 people there, including two doctors and nurses, other hospital staff and children and refugees seeking shelter. At least 22 patients were murdered in their hospital beds.

A wall composed of medical masks tied together hung on a metal frame near the building’s door at Drexel. Each mask bore the name of one of the 485 martyred health care workers.