University of Minnesota Law School Scholarship Repository Minnesota Journal of International Law 2018 Litigating the Right to Health under Occupation: Between Bureaucracy and Humanitarianism Aeyal Gross Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mjil Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Gross, Aeyal, "Litigating the Right to Health under Occupation: Between Bureaucracy and Humanitarianism" (2018). Minnesota Journal of International Law. 334. https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mjil/334 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Minnesota Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Minnesota Journal of International Law collection by an authorized administrator of the Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Article Litigating the Right to Health under Occupation: Between Bureaucracy and Humanitarianism Aeyal Gross INTRODUCTION The increasing role of litigation in the protection of the right to health has evoked great interest in recent years.1 In addition to the increase in domestic and international litigation,2 the examination of access to health care from a human rights perspective is also clearly rising.3 This growing attention to Aeyal Gross is Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University. I am grateful to the World Health Organization for the funding for this research, to Dani Filc, Paul Hunt, Michal Luft, Yael Ronen, and Anita Vitullo for their comments on a previous draft of the article, and to Idan Seger for his excellent and dedicated research work. Special thanks to Physicians for Human Rights – Israel and especially to Mor Efrat for their help during the research.