{"id":89784,"date":"2026-04-29T19:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/89784\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:24:12","slug":"loyalty-tests-silencing-and-persecution-what-arab-healthcare-workers-in-israel-have-faced-since-oct-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/89784\/","title":{"rendered":"Loyalty Tests, Silencing and Persecution: What Arab Healthcare Workers in Israel Have Faced Since Oct. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">Around 200,000 of Israel&#8217;s 2.1 million Arab citizens of Israel work in the country&#8217;s health care system, where their contribution is incalculable. About one-quarter of Israel&#8217;s physicians, dentists and nurses are Arab, as are around half of the country&#8217;s pharmacists. But claims of a culture of coexistence to the country, a recent study by <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" target=\"_router\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2025-07-11\/ty-article-magazine\/.highlight\/israels-physicians-for-human-founder-rights-has-little-hope-for-israelis-and-palestinians\/00000197-f768-d274-a39f-f768b2280000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Physicians for Human Rights <\/a>\u2013 Israel reveals a different picture: Since the October 7, 2023 massacre carried out by Hamas and other Palestinian militants from Gaza in southern Israel, the system is engaged in persistent silencing and persecution, with some Arab staff members forced to conceal their identity in order to keep their jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 200,000 of Israel&#8217;s 2.1 million Arab citizens of Israel work in the country&#8217;s health care system, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[9860,1722,37,29334,1685,20419],"class_list":{"0":"post-89784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-arab-israelis","9":"tag-human-rights","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israel-health","12":"tag-israel-palestine","13":"tag-jews-and-arabs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116489634771223470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}