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The platform "Documenting the Targeting and Destruction of the Health Sector in the Gaza Strip" presents accurate and detailed information about the Israeli assault on health during the genocidal war. This includes data on the attacks on healthcare facilities and health workers who have been killed, abducted, tortured, and maimed by Israeli forces during the genocide, and relevant statements by international organizations and healthcare institutions. These are complemented by original analysis by researchers and authors covering a range of issues in the targeting of the health sector, through which Israeli occupation forces have created a "war biosphere". Read more

Martyred as a result of an airstrike in northern Gaza Strip

Submitted by Farah.s.miqdad on

He was martyred alongside his parents, siblings Mohammed, Mahmoud, Malak and Lina and her children, and two of his aunts as a result of an airstrike in Jabalia in the north of the Strip. It is worth noting that their house was bombed in the initial days of the genocide but they insisted on staying steadfast in the north until their martyrdom.

Targeting of the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital - Nuseirat Camp massacre

Submitted by zaqoutrima on

Occupation forces targeted vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital with warplanes amid intense aerial and ground fire cover over several areas in Central Governorate, resulting in a large number of wounded and martyrs arriving at the hospital.The Media Office in Gaza announced that the number of martyrs from occupation massacres in Al-Nuseirat Camp reached 210, with more than 400 injured individuals arriving at Al-Awda Nuseirat Hospital and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital up to this date. 

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital has been evacuated after direct threat of bombing by occupation forces.

Evacuation of most patients and medical staff from Kamal Adwan Hospital

Submitted by zaqoutrima on

The Ministry of Health evacuated most patients and medical staff from the hospital. The hospital is largely non-functional and has stopped receiving new patients, due to heavy fighting in its vicinity, exacerbated by the lack of basic medical supplies, water, food and fuel. 20 patients remained in the facility and could not be evacuated.

Dozens feared dead in Israeli airstrike on UNRWA school in Gaza

"UNRWA can confirm that one of our schools in the Nuseirat area [in central Gaza] was hit overnight/early morning by Israeli Forces. ⁠The school was possibly hit several times,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees told UN News. “The number of those reported killed is between 35 and 45. Scores others are injured. We are not able to confirm the above figure at this stage.”

UN General Assembly presses Security Council to give ‘favourable consideration’ to full Palestinian membership

The UN General Assembly convened again in New York on Friday for an emergency special session on the Gaza crisis and overwhelmingly passed a resolution which upgrades Palestine’s rights at the world body as an Observer State, without offering full membership. It urged the Security Council to give “favourable consideration” to Palestine’s request.

Occupation forces withdraw from Kamal Adwan Hospital

Submitted by zaqoutrima on

Occupation forces withdrew from the hospital after four days of siege. According to initial reports and video footage published by the media, an Israeli military bulldozer flattened the tents of a number of displaced people outside the hospital, killing and injuring an unconfirmed number of people, and 90 people were detained by the occupation army.

Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)