Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to health, says there’s a new term coined after Israel’s yearlong war on Gaza – “medicide” – because of its repeated attacks on healthcare centres and medical workers.

“In the same way we understand the right the journalists do as human rights defenders, this genocide has shown the incredible work that doctors and other healthcare workers do in a way I don’t think we’ve seen before,” she told a news conference.

“They are the oath takers, the ones who refused to leave and evacuate, and they stayed knowing what their fate was, caring for their patients.”

The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) denounced the US government for doing nothing after its ally Israel launched a series of deadly attacks that killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza, including many children.

“If the slaughter of babies in hospitals and children in their sleep does not shock the conscience of the Biden administration officials supporting the far-right Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza, nothing will,” said CAIR’s national executive director, Nihad Awad, in a statement.

“What crime would Israel have to commit that would end the Biden administration’s complicity in genocide? There is apparently no limit to the crimes against humanity that Biden administration officials will support or excuse.”