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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

Introduction

Since the beginning of the genocide, the actions of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) made clear that its systematic targeting and destruction of the health sector in Gaza is part of a strategy to erase Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by making it uninhabitable. By October 9, 2023 — the third day of the war — the Zionist air force had inflicted severe damage on the Beit Hanoun Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. This marked the first of a series of direct assaults on healthcare facilities since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on October 7, 2023.

Documentation Methodology

The documentation relies, until this point, on reliable secondary sources, primarily reports and statements by the Ministry of Health in Gaza, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, regular reports of hospitals and other health facilities, and reports and statements by the Government Media Office in Gaza, all of which collect primary data. This is in addition to other secondary sources, including relevant local and global organizations and reliable media and electronic sources, among others.

Remarks from the President of the 78th Session of the General Assembly

PGA Remarks at the 10th Emergency Special Session (resumed).

PGA remarks at the 10th Emergency Special Session (resumed)

Friday, 10 May 2024, 10:00 am, GA-Hall

[As Delivered]

 

Excellencies,

Distinguished Delegates,

 

Decades ago, the situation in the Middle East marked the first significant crisis for the newly established United Nations.

 

At Emergency Special Session, General Assembly Overwhelmingly Backs Membership of Palestine to United Nations, Urges Security Council Support Bid (10 May 2024)

TENTH EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION,

49TH & 50TH MEETINGS (AM & PM)

GA/12599

10 May 2024

At Emergency Special Session, General Assembly Overwhelmingly Backs Membership of Palestine to United Nations, Urges Security Council Support Bid

General Assembly Concludes Debate on United Nations Membership for State of Palestine (13 May 2024)

TENTH EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION,

51ST & 52ND MEETINGS (AM & PM)

GA/12600

13 May 2024

General Assembly Concludes Debate on United Nations Membership for State of Palestine

(Note:  Due to the financial liquidity crisis affecting the United Nations and the resulting constraints, this meeting was not covered.)

UN General Assembly presses Security Council to give ‘favourable consideration’ to full Palestinian membership (10 May 2024)

What does the resolution mean?

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Here’s a quick recap of what this means: by adopting this resolution the General Assembly will upgrade the rights of the State of Palestine within the world body, but not the right to vote or put forward its candidature to such organs as the Security Council or the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Martyred alongside his family

Submitted by Farah.s.miqdad on

Dr. Yousef Abu Jadallah was martyred as a result of a strike on his residence in Gaza City alongside his wife Aya and their children Salah al-Deen, Mohammed, Abdel Rahman and Omar. His family were unable to pull their bodies from under the rubble for two weeks after they were martyred.

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.

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Doctors without borders (Médecins sans frontières)
North Gaza’s destruction is a “sight that cannot be described”
Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
Daily statistical report of the number of martyrs and wounded as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip- 21-01-2025
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
The people of Gaza hear the sound of playing children instead of bombardments and airstrikes
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