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
The Israeli forces’ assault on Gaza has escalated to a horrifying level of atrocity. Northern Gaza is being wiped off the map. Under the guise of “evacuation,” Israeli forces have ordered the forced displacement of an estimated 400,000 Palestinians trapped in northern Gaza, including Gaza City. This is not an evacuation – this is forced displacement under gunfire.
Five-year-old Mohammed lives in northern Gaza with his mother, Sondos, his father and his sister. He has a rare metabolic disorder called lactic acidosis, a condition which causes spasms, weakness and digestive issues, and can be life-threatening if left untreated. Mohammed requires specialised care, proper nutrition and consistent medication.
The independent UN Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, has published its latest report investigating attacks on Gaza’s medical facilities and personnel since 7 October 2023, concluding that Israeli forces have committed war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination in Gaza.
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is horrified by yet another atrocity in the making in northern Gaza, after the Israeli military invaded Kamal Adwan Hospital this morning.
It has been reported that Israeli forces have destroyed the hospital’s oxygen station, and it is feared that patients are already dying, with healthcare workers left stranded without access to vital medical resources.
We call on world leaders to act urgently to protect UNRWA from the unprecedented and dangerous attacks it faces from the Israeli Government.
Keir Starmer and David Lammy: You can't claim not to know that Israel is exterminating Palestinians in Gaza. Only that you are choosing not to act.
No more excuses, no more delays. The UK must end its complicity in Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians.
Israel is exterminating Palestinian life in northern Gaza.
Yet the UK refuses to condemn it.
Israel is attacking hospitals and killing health workers.
Yet the UK refuses to end all arms sales to Israel.
Israel is starving civilians and forcibly expelling them from their homes.
The Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital (PFBS) in Gaza City has delivered crucial healthcare services across departments such as emergency, obstetrics, gynaecology, and surgery for over four decades. Since the Israeli military began systematically dismantling Gaza’s health system in October 2023, PFBS has played a critical role in providing life-saving care to Palestinians, supported by MAP.
This week, Medical Aid for Palestinians were invited to provide evidence to the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee, on the situation for healthcare in Gaza.
Professor Nizam Mamode, a volunteer surgeon for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), and Rohan Talbot, MAP’s Director of Advocacy and Campaigns, gave evidence alongside Nebal Farsakh from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Emina Ćerimović of Human Rights Watch, and Sam Rose from UNRWA.
Imagine trying to escape from airstrikes or bombing, but you can’t hear any of the sounds around you. Or trying to evacuate your home, after being forcibly displaced, across dirt and damaged roads while using a wheelchair, if you haven't already lost it under the rubble of a bombed building. Or trying to tell how dirty the water you are drinking is, but you can’t see.
Yesterday (12 December), the Israeli military issued a forced displacement order in Gaza City that impacts the MAP supported Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital (PFBS) and threatens to end advanced neo-natal care across the whole of northern Gaza.
Located in the city of Dayr al-Balah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is a major government hospital in al-Wusta governorate in the Gaza Strip.
Opened in 2000, the European Gaza Hospital is located in al-Fukhari in the Khan Younis governorate.
Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital was opened in 1882 in al-Zaytun neighborhood south of Gaza City near the St. Philip the Evangelist Church, by English missionaries, led by Rev. Elliott.
The Nasser Medical Complex is the second largest hospital in the Gaza Strip after Al-Shifa, with 1,227 medical staff.
Al-Shifa Hospital Complex is one of the largest health institutions in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Bursh was killed while imprisoned at the Ofer Prison on April 19, 2024. He was subjected to severe torture and his body remains held by Israel.
The Israeli Airforce struck the house of Dr. Omar Farwanah, which was located in Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood in south-west Gaza. Dr. Omar was martyred alongside his daughter, Dr.
His house was targeted upon his return to visit his family after seven consecutive days of work in al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Dr.
He was martyred alongside his father, father-in-law and brother-in-law as a result of a strike of his in-laws' house, where he, his two children and his pregnant wife had fled.
She was martyred alongside her daughter and other members of her family as a result of an airstrike targeting her home in Bureij Camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
After he and his mother, Dr. of education and mathematics teacher Dr. Yusra Abdelaziz Maqadmeh, were unreachable for two weeks after the second raid on al-Shifa Medical Complex, the bodies of Dr.
The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz announced that Dr. Iyad al-Rantisi had died in an interrogation center in the city of Askalan, six days after his abduction.
Dr. Midhat Mhaisen was martyred as a result of a strike targeting the hospital, which injured several other doctors.
He was arrested from the Jabalia ambulance station in the northern Gaza Strip during a raid by occupation forces on the center. His fate remains unknown until today.
He was arrested from the Jabalia ambulance station in the northern Gaza Strip during a raid by occupation forces on the center. His fate remains unknown until today.
He was arrested from the Jabalia ambulance station in the northern Gaza Strip during a raid by occupation forces on the center. His fate remains unknown until today.
He was arrested from the Jabalia ambulance station in the northern Gaza Strip during a raid by occupation forces on the center. His fate remains unknown until today.
After storming Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, occupation forces arrested Dr. Ahmad al-Kahlout and took him to an unknown location, alongside 70 other health workers.
After storming Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, occupation forces arrested Dr. Ahmad al-Kahlout and took him to an unknown location, alongside 70 other health workers.
After storming Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, occupation forces arrested Dr. Ahmad al-Kahlout and took him to an unknown location, alongside 70 other health workers.
After storming Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, occupation forces arrested Dr. Ahmad al-Kahlout and took him to an unknown location, alongside 70 other health workers.
Occupation forces stormed al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip and conducted field interrogations with several displaced people, patients, and health workers.
Occupation forces stormed al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip and conducted field interrogations with several displaced people, patients, and health workers.
