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No one should become seriously ill or die from a vaccine-preventable disease. That is why I have taken steps to increase the number of healthcare professionals who can vaccinate and perform tests. These emergency measures will protect New Yorkers. The Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, has issued an executive order that expands the group of professionals authorized to administer measles vaccines to include paramedics, advanced emergency medical personnel, pharmacists, and midwives. #sarampión #vacunación #emergenciaSalud (translated)

🇵🇸 Macklemore anuncia doação para organizações que ajudam diretamente a Palestina: “Vou doar todo o valor de US$ 1 milhão dos meus ganhos da ‘Loop Tour’ do Ed Sheeran para seis organizações que trabalham diretamente para apoiar o povo palestino. (...) Quero colocar no centro os pais carregando seus filhos para hospitais sem os recursos básicos para tratá-los, e os médicos, paramédicos, jornalistas e trabalhadores humanitários que continuam voltando. Quero colocar no centro os organizadores e ativistas que pagaram um preço real por se posicionarem ao lado da Palestina.” #Palestina #Solidariedade #Justiça

💊🇫🇷 ALERTE INFO - Le reste à charge sur les soins va AUGMENTER dès le 1er octobre pour les Français concernés par les franchises médicales. Le plafond annuel passera de 100€ à 140€, soit jusqu’à 40€ de plus à payer de sa poche pour les consultations, médicaments, actes paramédicaux et transports sanitaires. (AFP) #Santé #France #Alerte

For three years, Israel has repeated that Hamas and PIJ are disguising as "journalist", "doctors", "healthcare workers" and "paramedics", because they know that this disguise offers them some measure of protection, and that their death will cause outrage among credulous #Israel #Hamas #Disguise #IL

El ejército israelí ha admitido que sus soldados dispararon contra el vehículo en el que viajaba la niña palestina Hind Rajab, quien murió en el ataque, y ha anunciado la apertura de una investigación penal sobre este incidente y otros relacionados con la muerte de 15 paramédicos en 2025. #HindRajab #Gaza #Justicia

L’esercito israeliano ha avviato un’indagine penale sull’uccisione, nel gennaio 2024, della bambina palestinese Hind Rajab, dei suoi familiari e di due paramedici a Gaza. Per la prima volta l’IDF ha ammesso di aver sparato contro l’auto su cui viaggiava la bambina, dopo averne inizialmente negato il coinvolgimento. Sulla sua storia è stato realizzato un film, candidato agli Oscar 2026 come miglior film internazionale e vincitore del Leone d’Argento alla Mostra di Venezia 2025 #Gaza #Israele #DirittiUmani

Rabaa: The Hour the World’s Conscience Stood Still On the anniversary of one of the largest single-day killings of protesters in modern history, one question remains unanswered: who will be held accountable? By Adham Hasanin Egyptian journalist and political writer, based in the Netherlands On 14 August, the anniversary returns of a day unlike any other in modern Egyptian history. Not simply because it was the bloodiest Egypt has known wars and massacres before and since ,but because it was the day a state chose to open fire on its own people in broad daylight, in front of the world’s cameras, and then let thirteen years pass without a single officer ever being held accountable. This article will not be a cold recitation of statistics, though the statistics exist, are documented, and are horrifying. It is an attempt to understand something deeper: how a square in the heart of Cairo, filled with tents, children, and worshippers, became the site of the largest mass killing the Arab world has witnessed in the past decade and why the echo of that day still reverberates in every Egyptian prison cell today. I. A Morning That Began Like Any Other For readers unfamiliar with the background: in July 2013, the Egyptian military, led by then-General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, removed Mohamed Morsy Egypt’s first freely elected civilian president, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who had taken office in 2012 following the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak. In response, tens of thousands of Morsy’s supporters staged an open-ended sit-in demanding his reinstatement. By 14 August 2013, more than twenty thousand people had spent weeks camped out at two Cairo squares, Rab’a al-Adawiya and al-Nahda, in a peaceful sit-in. They were not an army, nor a uniform bloc; they were entire families men, women, and children, some affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, many simply ordinary citizens who saw the restoration of elected legitimacy as a cause worth the risk. There were tents for sleeping, communal kitchens feeding the demonstrators, speaking platforms, and a small field clinic that no one imagined would, within hours, become one of the most terrifying places in modern Egyptian history. In the early hours of that morning, Central Security Forces and army units, under the command of then-General Sisi, began what was officially described as a "dispersal" operation targeting both sit-ins simultaneously. It was not a dispersal in any ordinary sense of the word. According to a year-long investigation by Human Rights Watch, it was a pre-planned operation that anticipated, from the outset, thousands of deaths. II. The Numbers the Regime Refuses to Speak The Egyptian government, to this day, cites a death toll of "over 600" for that single day a figure that, even at its official lowest, is horrifying enough to warrant an independent international investigation. But the field investigation conducted by Human Rights Watch, drawing on field hospital records, survivor testimony, and analysis of video footage from dozens of angles, arrived at a far more disturbing figure: at least 817 people killed at Rab’a Square alone, with the true toll likely exceeding 1,000, plus another 87 killed at the nearby al-Nahda Square. When the deaths from the weeks surrounding 14 August are added from the dispersal of the Republican Guard sit-in on 8 July, through the Mansoura Street killings, to the dispersal of an October 6 march the combined total reaches at least 1,150 deaths in just six weeks, according to Human Rights Watch’s meticulous documentation. This figure led the organisation to use a term not deployed lightly in international law: crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch described the Rab’a killings as "one of the world’s largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history." Not in Egyptian history alone in modern history as a whole. What happened at Rab’a is cited in international reporting alongside China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. This is the true scale of what the Egyptian state has spent thirteen years trying to minimise, justify, and reduce to a mere "security incident" in a news bulletin. III. "All According to Plan" When Mass Killing Becomes Administration, Not Chaos The title Human Rights Watch chose for its detailed report on the massacre deserves lingering on: "All According to Plan." This is not an emotive headline; it is a precise legal conclusion built on field evidence. According to the investigation, what happened at Rab’a was not a dispersal operation that spiralled out of control amid chaos or panic, as the regime later tried to portray it. It was a carefully planned operation that assumed, in advance, massive casualties. Then-Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim admitted, in a televised interview broadcast on 31 August 2013 just weeks after the massacre that his ministry had anticipated losses of "10 percent of the people" present at the sit-in, acknowledging that the number of demonstrators exceeded twenty thousand. By simple arithmetic, this is an official admission that the state anticipated, in advance, the deaths of roughly two thousand people and proceeded with the operation regardless. This is the true horror at the heart of the Rab’a story: it was not a security operation that spun out of control, but a conscious administrative decision, made in an air-conditioned room, with advance calculations, by men who knew precisely how many human beings would die under their fire and who proceeded anyway, or perhaps because of it. According to Human Rights Watch’s analysis, the objective was to send an unambiguous message: whoever challenges the new state will pay an irreversible price. IV. Snipers, Women, and Children The Faces the Reports Do Not Tell Behind every number in the Human Rights Watch reports lies a full human story, deliberately omitted from the state’s official narrative. The investigation documented how security forces opened fire from multiple angles, and how snipers positioned themselves atop buildings surrounding the square, targeting according to survivor testimony and analysed video footage any movement in the square, regardless of whether it was an armed combatant or a nurse trying to reach a wounded person. According to documented testimony, entire families had their tents burn over their heads as fire swept through the sit-in. Doctors and paramedics were killed while trying to pull the wounded from the line of fire. Most damningly of all, the documentation shows deliberate targeting of ambulances and field medical points meaning that wounded people who survived the first bullet then faced death by bleeding out, because anyone attempting to save them was themselves a target. This detail the targeting of medics is what elevates the event from "excessive violent repression" to what human rights organisations have described as a systematic crime. When security forces target those trying to save the wounded, they are not merely dispersing a sit-in; they are preventing witnesses from surviving to tell what happened. V. Thirteen Years of Total Impunity The most painful part of the Rab’a story is not only what happened that day, but what has not happened in the years since. From 14 August 2013 to today, not a single officer, of any rank, has been held accountable for the deaths of hundreds, or thousands, of Egyptians. Quite the opposite: the state has moved to entrench impunity through the force of law itself. Egypt issued legislation granting senior military officers immunity from questioning over any violations that may have occurred following Morsy’s removal a law specifically designed to close the door on any future judicial accountability, regardless of how political circumstances might change. Even the fact-finding committee established by then-interim President Adly Mansour to investigate the June and July events concluded, in its report issued more than a year after the events, that the sit-in’s leaders bore responsibility for the deaths, on the grounds that they had allowed weapons into the square even as the same report admitted, in a glaring contradiction, that security forces had failed to target only armed individuals, meaning they had fired indiscriminately on everyone: armed and unarmed, man and woman, adult and child. This is the pattern that has repeated for over a decade: as each anniversary approaches, official statements re-narrate the events and shift blame onto the victims, while the actual perpetrators — those who planned the operation, gave the orders, and pulled the trigger — remain free. Some now occupy the highest offices of the state. VI. Why This Anniversary, Why Now? A reader might ask: why revisit this story after all these years? Has the world not moved on to newer crises? The answer lies in the very nature of impunity. When a state is never held accountable for the largest massacre of protesters in its modern history, it does not simply "forget" the crime it sets a precedent, telling every future ruler and every future security apparatus: mass killing is possible, politically profitable, and free of cost. This poisonous lesson does not remain confined within Egyptian borders; its echo reaches every Arab capital contemplating how to handle its own opposition. More dangerously, this system of impunity did not stop at Rab’a’s edges; it is the foundation on which Egypt’s entire subsequent decade of repression was built: thousands of political prisoners, grossly unfair mass trials that produced death sentences for dozens of defendants in cases linked directly to the Rab’a events themselves, laws criminalising peaceful protest, a muzzled press, and a civil society hollowed of substance. All of it traces back to the morning of 14 August 2013, when the state learned that overwhelming force succeeds, and that the world will condemn for a few days, then move on. VII. Delayed Justice Is Not Forgotten Justice Despite more than a decade of official silence and impunity, the Rab’a case remains alive in international legal memory. Human rights organisations, from Human Rights Watch to Amnesty International, continue to renew their annual calls for an independent international investigation, grounded in the legal principle that crimes against humanity are not subject to statutes of limitation: delayed justice is not forgotten justice. The victims who fell in that square were not numbers in a statistical report. They were fathers who left behind children too young, that day, to understand why their father would never return. They were mothers who, thirteen years later, are still searching for a clearly marked grave to which they can carry flowers, and young people who had decades of life ahead of them that they never got to live. Their memory does not fade with time; it grows with their children, who carry with them the same question their parents asked before they were killed: when will justice come? Conclusion: What Does This Anniversary Demand of Us? Every year, as the anniversary of 14 August returns, the same question resurfaces one the Egyptian state refuses to answer: who gave the order? Who planned the operation? Who decided that twenty thousand human beings deserved to be shot with live ammunition because they staged a peaceful sit-in? This anniversary is not a call for vengeance, nor an invocation of the past for its own sake. It is a reminder that justice, however delayed, remains a debt still owed. And that every instance of international silence over a massacre of this scale opens the door to the next one, elsewhere, under a different pretext, carrying the same lethal conviction: that the world will condemn for a week, then forget. We will not forget. And we will not stop asking the question that unsettles everyone who took part in that crime, regardless of the office they hold today: where is the accountability? Rab’a is no longer merely the name of a square in Cairo. In the conscience of everyone who believes in justice, it has become a test of the world’s conscience itself a test the world has not yet passed.

🇸🇻🇨🇴 | TERREMOTO EN COLOMBIA: El Presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, ofrece asistencia inmediata a Colombia tras el devastador terremoto de magnitud 7.4: "Estamos listos para brindar apoyo inmediato con nuestros equipos de rescate, personal médico, paramédicos, suministros o cualquier otra asistencia que nuestros hermanos y hermanas colombianos consideren necesaria." #Colombia #Terremoto #AyudaHumanitaria

🇨🇴 Países que han ofrecido ayuda a Colombia tras el terremoto de magnitud 7,4. Los gobiernos de estos países expresaron solidaridad y ofrecieron asistencia (equipos de rescate, personal médico, ayuda humanitaria, logística u otra colaboración): • Estados Unidos • México • Ecuador • El Salvador • Chile • Perú • Panamá • Argentina • Brasil • Venezuela • Israel • España • Italia • Cuba • Bolivia • Guatemala • Ucrania También se sumaron con mensajes de solidaridad y ofrecimientos de cooperación países de Centroamérica como Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras y República Dominicana, además de apoyo de organismos como la ONU. Ofertas más concretas: • Ecuador: Equipo USAR de 47 rescatistas, canes especializados y equipos con autonomía para 7 días. Listo para movilizarse cuando Colombia lo requiera. • El Salvador: Equipos de rescate, médicos, paramédicos e insumos, listos para apoyar de inmediato. • Venezuela: Envío de rescatistas y ayuda humanitaria. • Chile, México, Brasil, EE.UU. e Israel: Disponibilidad general de apoyo según lo que se necesite. #Colombia #Solidaridad #AyudaHumanitaria

Nell'articolo, Domenico De Felice critica aspramente la regione Lombardia per la gestione delle Case di Comunità, denunciano che la privatizzazione dei servizi sanitari, ora estesa anche a queste strutture, rappresenti un grave fallimento del Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, che ha ceduto il controllo a cooperative private senza garantire il necessario personale medico e paramedico. #SanitàPubblica #Lombardia #CaseDiComunità

A Seabright Beach, un bimbo di circa 10 anni è stato salvato da un giovane bagnino di 16 anni dopo essere stato trascinato via da onde gigantesche, in un'operazione di soccorso che ha coinvolto anche altri bagnanti, con il bambino poi assistito dai paramedici e restituito ai genitori in buone condizioni. #salvataggio #bagnino #SantaCruz

La Haute autorité de santé recommande l'obligation de la vaccination annuelle contre la grippe pour tous les professionnels de santé, y compris les étudiants des filières médicales et paramédicales, ainsi que le personnel des établissements médico-sociaux accueillant des personnes âgées. #Vaccination #ProfessionnelsDeSanté #Grippe

🎤 #Entrevista | Lamentablemente en 🇲🇽 #Tapachula, #Chiapas, se reporta una mujer gravemente lesionada al arrojarse desde el segundo piso de un inmueble cuando comenzó a experimentar el #sismo M7.4. ⛑️ Paramédicos de Protección Civil le brindaron la atención necesaria para ser posteriormente trasladada al Hospital General de Tapachula. #SASSLA #México #sismo #noticias

17 July 1923 | A Polish woman, Emilia Woźniak, was born in Lipna Wola. A nurse-paramedic. In #Auschwitz from 19 January 1943. No. 29997 She was liberated on 27 January 1945. https://t.co/KJ4vMPnMqs #History #Poland #Memorial

Muchos de los miembros de nuestra misión ya se encuentran exhaustos. Por ello, hemos decidido enviar un séptimo avión con 120 especialistas para relevar a quienes más lo necesitan. Los otros 180 integrantes del contingente original continuarán en el terreno, por lo que mantendremos en todo momento un equipo de 300 rescatistas, médicos, paramédicos, psicólogos, veterinarios, bomberos y otros especialistas, muchos de ellos preparados específicamente para esta nueva fase de la misión. Además, aprovechamos este vuelo para enviar cinco toneladas adicionales de ayuda humanitaria, con medicamentos, alimentos, insumos y equipo para reforzar las labores que continúan en la zona. Nuestros equipos de rescate siguen trabajando al 100%. Muchos de los nuevos integrantes se incorporarán directamente a esas labores, aunque sabemos que cada vez es más difícil. Fuerza Venezuela 🇸🇻🇻🇪 #AyudaHumanitaria #Rescate #Venezuela

DESDE EL POLIEDRO Jóvenes médicos y paramédicos fueron sacados de la cola para acreditarse en el Poliedro, un coronel de nombre Maikel Sánchez habló por 10 minutos para decir q hay fallas en el sistema. Los médicos y paramédicos ya tenían 4 horas en la cola. Reporte de @RobertLobo_ #Salud #AtenciónMédica #Venezolanos

🚨🇻🇪🇸🇻| ÚLTIMA HORA: Despega la aeronave que trasladará a la misión humanitaria salvadoreña hacia Venezuela; entre ellos rescatistas, paramédicos, binomios caninos y toneladas de ayuda que apoyarán las labores de búsqueda, rescate y asistencia a las víctimas de los terremotos. https://t.co/anoZIIPn65 #AyudaHumanitaria #Venezuela #Terremotos