Renowned medical journal The Lancet has published a petition calling for the suspension of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) from from the World Medical Association (WMA).

On Saturday, The Lancet published a petition by health organizations such as the People’s Health Movement (PHM), Artsen voor Gaza (Doctors for Gaza), and Health Advisory Council of the Jewish Voice for Peace calling for the IMA to be suspended from the WMA over “its failure to speak out against the genocide of Palestinians, the destruction of health-care infrastructure, and the torture and killing of health-care workers in Gaza.”

The WMA Congress will now meet in Rotterdam in October to consider the petition.

Leslie London, Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the University of Cape Town and a member of PHM South Africa, told The Lancet that the IMA has “colluded in the unspeakable treatment of Palestinians during this war.”

The British Medical Association already suspended ties with the IMA in June, 2025.

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