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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

Emergency Situation Reports, Issue 26
Emergency Situation Reports, Issue 25

تطوير المختبر المركزي و عمليات الجراحة

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قامت جمعية أصدقاء المريض الخيرية بتطوير المختبر المركزي للمستشفى، من خلال إضافة أجهزة فحوصات بيوكيماوية، كما قامت الجمعية بعمليات إضافية للتطوير والتحديث الشامل في قسم الجراحة داخل المستشفى. وعملت الجمعية على تطوير عمليات الجراحة العامة وفروعها، وأضافت غرفة عمليات صغرى، كما قامت بتطوير غرفة لمعالجة الحنجرة والمريء والمعدة والأمعاء وتجهيزها بمنظار بريتوني.

Al-Quds Hospital goes out of service

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As the hospital entered its seventh day of Israeli siege and fifth day without communications, the PRCS announced that the hospital was completely out of service due to lack of available fuel and power outages. Staff continued to provide the best service they could to the injured as the hospital lacked power, food, medical equipment, food, and water. Staff were forced to use traditional medical methods due to the lack of supplies. Displaced people were forced to evacuate to the south on a specific route drawn by the Israeli military.

Tightening of siege on Al-Quds Hospital

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Occupation forces bombed the hospital.

On November 11,2024,occupation forces tightened the siege of the hospital by advancing towards the hospital's entrance, intensify the airstrikes around the hospital and PRCS headquarters, and fired live ammunition at the intensive care unit and displaced people sheltering in the hospital, causing several injuries. Occupation forces also opened fire at the clinics and at everyone moving outside of the hospital, killing a displaced person.

Key statistics - April, 10 2025
source
Palestinian Ministry of Health / Gaza

Health workforce targeted

  • Health Sector martyers
    1172
  • Martyred doctors
    115
  • Martyred nurses
    290
  • Health workers martyred in detention
    4
  • Health sector detainees
    181
  • Health sector freed detainees
    199
Note: Cumulative figures as confirmed from multiple sources until the stated date
source
Institute for Palestine Studies

Hospital Functionality

  • Fully functional hospitals
    0
  • Partially functional hospitals
    22
  • Non-functioning hospitals
    14
source
Health Cluster

Medicines and Equipments

  • Medical Disposables at Zero Stock
    59%
  • Essential Medicines at Zero Stock
    37%
  • Cancer Medicines at Zero Stock
    54%
  • Diabetes Patients with Unavailable Medicines
    80,000
  • Hypertension Patients with Unavailable Medicines
    110,000
source
Palestinian Ministry of Health / Gaza

Attacks on Health Care

  • Completely destroyed hospitals
    9
  • Partially destroyed hospitals
    25
  • Mass graves in hospitals
    7
  • Ambulances targeted
    115
source
Institute for Palestine Studies

Health Impact

  • Deaths due to famine
    52
  • Deaths due to extreme cold
    17
  • Cases of infectious diseases
    2136026
  • Patients needing evacuation abroad
    22000
  • Deaths while waiting to travel for medical treatment
    350
Note: Cumulative figures until the stated date, so each person may suffer from an infectious disease multiple times during the genocide
source
Palestinian Ministry of Health / Gaza
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)