Inside Physicians for Human Rights Israel

On today’s episode of Justice Matters, co-host Mathias Risse speaks with Tirza Leibowitz, Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) about the organization's decades of work providing medical services in Israel-Palestine. Together they discuss: Tirza’s background in disability rights in Israel-Palestine before joining PHRI, the difference between the international organization Physicians for Human Rights and PHR Israel, the role of the Palestinian and Israeli physicians and medical staff and volunteers who make up the organization, PHRI’s position among the other local human rights organizations in Israel-Palestine, how they go about providing medical services in conflict areas, PHRI’s involvement in Gaza over the last decades and how that’s changed in recent years, the nature of the ongoing conflict in Gaza, how PHRI’s on the ground knowledge led it to understand the situation as a genocide, the reactions of other Israeli organizations to PHRI’s stance on Gaza,...