Global health diplomacy efforts in advancing the right to health in occupied palestine

This paper examines the effectiveness of global health diplomacy efforts in advancing the right to health in Occupied Palestine as a conflict zone, with a focus on Gaza Strip where human rights are challenged, specifically since October 2023 escalations. The qualitative approach employed where analytical desk review of primary and secondary sources conducted revealed mixed outcomes. Global health diplomacy succeeded partially in mitigating some immediate challenges through global solidarity and advocacy campaigns, besides controlled limited humanitarian emergency response through resource mobilization, provision of essential medicines, provision of psychosocial support, and limited selective medical evacuation, provision of water and sanitation supplies. However, global health diplomacy largely failed in preventing attacks on hospitals and healthcare infrastructure, protecting medical personnel and ambulances from targeting, securing access to essential service, getting humanitarian aids into Gaza unconditionally, or protecting Gaza population from being starved. Global health diplomacy failed in lifting the longstanding economic blockade, and in addressing the broader social determinants of health undermined by the occupation. It failed in addressing the underlying political causes and structural impediments impairing the right to health by securing permanent peace, freedom and stability for Palestine.