This symposium groups scientific lectures and panel discussions around humanitarian medicine in Gaza.
The direct and indirect impacts of the systematic destruction of the medical infrastructure on the health of the civilian population and medical work on site are to be highlighted, and global as well as local action strategies are to be developed.
Adequate crisis response is highly complex and multidisciplinary. To do justice to this, our event should inform in a particularly interdisciplinary way and place the interdisciplinary exchange at the center.
Doctors who have provided humanitarian aid in Gaza will have their say, as will experts in global health, international lawyers and civil society actors.
The event is primarily aimed at people from the medical and humanitarian field. In the spirit of networking and professional exchange, people without a medical background are explicitly invited to participate.
note: Exact lecture titles to be announced. Subject to change.
9:00 Opening remarks
9:15 Lecture: Contextual Placement
9:45 Lecture: Public Health
10:00 Break
10:15 Lecture: Legal Classification under International Law
11:00 Medical Lecture: Humanitarian Paediatrics
11:45 Break
12:45 Medical Lecture: Psychological and traumatic consequences of war
13:30 Short lecture panel: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
14:30 Break
14:45 Medical Lecture: Emergency Medicine
15:15 Medical Lecture: Anaesthesia - a field report
15:45 Break
16:00 Medical Lecture: Surgery under limited resources
16:45 Short lecture panel: Humanitarian Interventions
- Primary Care under War Conditions
- Medical Evacuations
- Prevention of Humanitarian Aid
17:45 Break
18:00 Panel Discussion: What Should Happen Next?
Get-together
CME points will be applied for
Katrin Glatz Brubakk is a Norwegian child psychotherapist who specializes in trauma. She is also an author and a recognized speaker on the effects of war and trauma on child development. She has extensive experience working in unstable and war-torn contexts with Doctors Without Borders.
Dr. Dorthe Siegmund is a peace and conflict researcher and an associate researcher at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. As a consultant, she focuses on German and European Middle East policy from the perspective of human rights and international law. From 2021 to 2024, she headed the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s office for Palestine and Jordan, based in Ramallah. In January 2026, her book "Local Peace Initiatives in the Tension Between Global Culture and Conflict Context" was published ...
Ihab Abutayyem, born in Gaza, is studying at RUB. He is a board-certified specialist in anesthesiology with subspecialties in pain management, emergency medicine, and critical care medicine. In 2023, he worked in regional anesthesia at Alshifaa Hospital in Gaza for 4 weeks; in 2024, he worked for 2 weeks in the operating room and emergency department at the European Hospital.
Juan-Gonzales Palacios ist Assistenzarzt in der Anästhesiologie und arbeitet seit fast fünf Jahren in diesem Fachgebiet. Er wurde in Madrid geboren und studierte Medizin in Zaragoza, Spanien. Derzeit ist er an der Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin tätig und promoviert am Universitätsklinikum Augsburg.
Hossam Abdul Hafez is Senior Consultant in Trauma Surgery and Head of Hand Surgery at Osnabrück Hospital, as well as a specialist in orthopaedics and trauma surgery with additional qualifications in special trauma surgery, special orthopaedic surgery, hand surgery and manual therapy. He also holds the international qualifications EBOT, EBHS and EBSQ, as well as an MHBA.
Fabian Goldmann ist Journalist, Autor und Islamwissenschaftler. Für verschiedene Magazine und Zeitungen berichtete er viele Jahre aus dem Nahen Osten. Er arbeitet außerdem zu stereotyper und diskriminierender Berichterstattung über Migration, Islam und Nahost und betreibt einen Blog und Podcast über Rassismus in den Medien.
Dr. Eitan Diamond ist Völkerrechtler und leitet die Arbeit des International Humanitarian Law Centre im israelisch-palästinensischen Kontext. Zuvor hatte er Führungs- und juristische Positionen beim IKRK, bei UNICEF sowie bei den israelischen Nichtregierungsorganisationen Gisha und B’Tselem inne. Eitan ist Mitglied des Vorstands von Gisha, des Public Committee against Torture in Israel und von Parents against Child Detention sowie Mitglied der Redaktion des Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies. Er hat einen LL.B. der Hebräischen Universität, einen LL.M. der London School of Economics and Political Science, ein Diplom in Menschenrechten des Europäischen Hochschulinstituts und einen Ph.D. der Universität Tel Aviv.