"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing"- Edmund BurkeFrom Dec. 27 2008 to Jan. 8th 2009 (data from BBC & UN) Palestinian dead = 765Palestinians wounded = 3.100Israeli dead = 14Israeli wounded = 119 Neither 1 nor 1000 deaths are insignificant, no matter where they come from, ifthey could be avoided. Dear friends, Almost one week ago, we received a call of attention and help from one of our NMOsmembers, IFMSA – Palestine, regarding the terrible situation that's going on rightnow in Gaza through different IFMSA servers. After that, a lot of replies fromaround the world were sent from members of different NMOs expressing theirthoughts and sorrows and telling they wanted to do something, help in any waypossible. We are an international network of medical students, and what attract us to IFMSAis the possibility of actually being able to help where is most needed, toactually be the change we want to see in the world (Gandhi) and achieve this notby our own, but supported and hand in hand with students from around the worldthat are inspire by the same things we are. Call us idealists. We might be. But someone has to give the first step and rightnow we're the firsts in the line. So, are we going to accept this call? Some of us did. All of you involved in some way: the ones that have offered help,the ones that have sent support messages, the ones that have found relevant to getinformed about the situation. All of you accepted the call for help.However, is time to give actions to all the words that have been spoken. We cannotbe silent anymore. IFMSA has a great potential, and now is time to see what we'reable to do with it. IFMSA is apolitical, but is centered in humanitarianprinciples, and now that we're facing a humanitarian crisis, is time to stand upand show that we are more than words and good intentions.This is why, after the lack of success in several intents to contact members ofthe EB and the team of officials (except for SCORP-D recently) for the past weekfrom several NMOs to email addresses or servers regarding what would be done andwhat could we all do related to the crisis occurring in Gaza-Palestine, andconsidering all the replies there have been of people wanting to organize andhelp, we feel morally obligated to begin an initiative as IFMSA.Therefore we have brought back the IFMSA Emergency and disasters network (E+D)once again and organized a committee that will coordinate the initiative (you willget all the information after this email).As the largest Students Organization in the world, representing 95 countries,there are people from IFMSA in Gaza right now, members of a Local Committee of
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