South Korean medical professors submit their resignations en masse to support a trainee doctors' strike over a government plan to boost medical school admissions.

South Korea begins a process to suspend licenses of some 4,900 striking junior doctors.

Hundreds of senior doctors held a rally near the presidential office in Seoul on Sunday to support young doctors and protest against a government plan to increase medical school admissions.

Thousands of junior doctors in Wales will go on strike in January after being offered a below-inflation pay offer of 5 percent.

The Israeli military has reportedly detained the director of al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip along with several other senior doctors.

The devastating bombing of a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday night is not the first time the Israeli regime has targeted health facilities. It has for years been bombing hospitals and killing medics.

Tens of thousands of doctors working for the UK's publically-funded National Health Service have once again walked off the job