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

The World Medical Association (WMA) is facing strong criticism for refusing to suspend the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), despite documented allegations of complicity by Israeli doctors in the torture of Palestinian detainees and abuses committed in Gaza . A petition signed by 6,500 medical personnel from the IMA Out! campaign, a coalition of health advocacy groups, was presented to the WMA General Assembly in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, last month, calling on the international body to expel the IMA.