Reservist surgeon described participation in military operations as a matter of “public health” in a post now excluded on social networks
An Israeli doctor who serves as an army reservist compared to kill people in Gaza to “eliminate cockroaches” in a post on social networks.
Writing at X on Sunday, Sabo Amos, who works as a surgeon in the public health system of Israel, said he volunteered to participate in “eliminations” after his battalion killed “dozens of terrorists” the day before.
Amos said he had asked to participate in operations “in the context of preventive medicine,” but said another doctor suggested that his involvement was a matter of “public health.”
“On second thought, he’s right. After all, we’re talking about eliminating cockroaches and other disgusting insects,” Amos wrote in the post, now deleted.
Later on Sunday, he posted an image that, he said, showed Israeli soldiers participating in a Jewish prayer in the afternoon in a mosque in northern Gaza.
“Every few minutes, machine gun shots or tanks grenades reach Gaza. Crush us,” he wrote.
Amos had already asked Gaza to be “erased” in an X post in August 2024.
“There are no people not involved there,” he wrote.
Amos works for MacCabi Healthcare Services, one of Israel’s leading public health service providers, which offers services to all Israeli citizens, including Israel’s Palestinian citizens.
According to the MacCabi website, it is based on a mixed city in northern Israel with a large Palestinian population.
The Mee contacted MacCabi Healthcare Services to comment.
A Palestinian doctor who works in the public health system in Israel, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Mee that he was not surprised by the comments of Amos.
He remembered how some doctors from the hospital where he worked celebrated when a hospital in Gaza was bombarded and asked Gaza to be erased and to starve.
“I came to a point in these hospitals where I started to wonder what kind of view someone has about medicine that makes him think so,” he said.
“It can’t be the perspective of a human being, a doctor, who took an oath.”
‘Occupation of Medicine’
He added that he was concerned about the abuses in which doctors and medical teams convened by the army may have been involved, citing the torture and abuse suffered by Palestinians detained in Israel.
“I am surrounded by criminals – whether from a humanitarian or doctor. It is a kind of occupation of medicine that forces us to erase our own identity and hide our feelings in relation to the people of Gaza in these hospitals.”
Ghada Majadli, a researcher and policy analyst at Think Tank al-Shabaka, who focuses on Palestinian health and human rights, said that Amos’s posts revealed the growing militarization of Israel’s health system.
“Doctors are moving between the clinics and the battlefield, as if the medical and military functions were interchangeable,” Majadli told Mee.
“When medical professionals adopt language and war tools, they fundamentally trace the ethical principles of medicine, which focus on care, neutrality and preservation of life.”
She said that Israel’s health system channeled significant resources in support of the war in Gaza and failed to oppose attacks on hospitals and the destruction of medical infrastructure, or the denial of food and aid, which led the population on the brink of hunger.
Amos’s posts were made while Palestinians in Gaza faced a new Israeli attack that killed at least 144 people on Sunday and killed more than 50 on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that Israel will take on Gaza’s “total control” while his far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday that Israel is “destroying everything left in Gaza.
Smotrich said, “We are conquering, cleaning and remaining in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed.”
Israel’s attacks on hospitals and other health infrastructures were widely convicted of international organizations trying to support medical care to the Palestinians in Gaza, where more than 52,000 people have been killed since the war began in October 2023.
On Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said that all hospitals in northern Gaza are out of operation and accused Israel of stepping the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia.
Earlier this month, the British Charity Institution Medical Aid for Palestinians said more than 1,400 health professionals were killed in Gaza and accused Israel of locking a “war against medical care.”
Amos’s comments were sentenced on Monday by the Israeli Medical Association, which said he was analyzing a series of complaints.
“The bureau of ethics vehemently condemns the appeals for doctors to kill in the name of medicine and see the need to emphasize that the role of the doctor, in any environment in which he operates, is to save lives and heal patients,” he said in a statement.
Originally published by Mee on 05/19/2025
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