Veterinarians & animals in Palestine
View & print our intro handout
There is so much to learn about how genocide is affecting the animal healthcare community in Palestine. This is a tiny introduction.
Messages from our colleague, Dr. Abo Rokba, a Gazan veterinarian
Please watch these two short videos featuring our colleague who is constantly battling for his life due to Israel’s genocide in Palestine. 70% of Israel’s genocide is funded by the United States.
UPDATE 10.20.2025:Our colleague Dr. Muath has been murdered by the Israeli military. Please watch the videos below and help us demand justice for him here.
Below messages were from the morning of July 20, 2025, during the AVMA conference in Washington, D.C.
Important articles
We will be expanding this section. Start with these articles:
Graphic photos packet
TRIGGER WARNING: THESE ARE EXTREMELY GRAPHIC PHOTOS. We took these to our May visit to Capitol Hill in an attempt to show senators’ offices why they should support Senate Resolution 224 to get humanitarian aid into Gaza.
We feel it is important that we as veterinarians understand what our tax dollars are funding. The United States is manufacturing and providing the majority of the weapons being used to murder civilians in Palestine.
It is our responsibility to know what our country is doing with the tax dollars we earn when we care for the most privileged animals on the planet.
Ask the AVMA to support our Palestinian colleagues as they did with Ukraine
22 days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the AVMA released a press statement (below) and gave our Ukranian colleagues a $200,000 donation from the AVMF. They also released a separate press item continuing to stand with Ukraine in 2024.
Over 600 days into a genocide in which our Palestinian colleagues are being murdered by billions of dollars of U.S. weapons, the AVMA has not said or done anything to stand with our colleagues in Palestine.
Join us in demanding that the AVMA lead the way in ethics and public health as is required of us by oath. We want to understand why when it comes to Palestine, the AVMA is silent or states it does not get political. One Health should include ALL of our colleagues and ALL global crises, regardless of the race, religion, and location of those affected. We see no good reason the AVMA should not stand with our colleagues in Palestine.
Starvation in Gaza July 2025
These screenshots were taken from social media on Sunday, July 20, 2025.
Photos of us in action
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We are a coalition of animal healthcare workers dedicated to succeeding where global institutions have failed in confronting and preventing genocide. Our mission includes identifying, opposing, preventing, and eradicating genocide by uniting veterinarians, veterinary technicians, veterinary support staff, and all other animal healthcare workers and animal lovers in action.
We are proud to be the first organization of our kind. We have all committed to be voices of the voiceless. In the case of genocide, that includes both humans and animals who are facing unspeakable injustices. Silence in the face of war crimes and genocide is not an option for us – it is an act of complicity and a violation of the veterinary oath.
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