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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

Lina Abdelrahman Hussein al-Hawar
Occupation
Medical or dentistry student

Key events

Martyrdom date
Ruaa Hammam Ismail Hanieh
Occupation
Medical or dentistry student

Key events

Martyred alongside her family

Ruaa was martyred alongside members of her family as a result of a strike on their vehicle in Beach Camp in the northwestern Gaza Strip.

Raghad Anis Fathi Anis Abdel Nabi
Occupation
Medical or dentistry student

Key events

Martyred alongside her family

Occupation forces conducted airstrikes on the Abdel Nabi home, killing 16 members of the family, most of whom had been displaced there.

Dima Imad al-Sayed al-Masri
Occupation
Medical or dentistry student

Key events

Date of martyrdom
Mohammed AbdelFattah Abul Jidyan
Occupation
Medical or dentistry student

Key events

He was martyred along with his family.

Mohammed Abu Al-Jidyan was martyred as a result of the occupation's massacre against the "Abu Al-Judian" and "Salem" families. The massacre involved the bombing of a house that was sheltering dozens of family members in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip.

Zainab Attallah Ismail Azzam
Occupation
Medical or dentistry student
Abdullah Aaed Abu Jayab
Occupation
Medical or dentistry student

Abdullah achieved the second place in Palestine in the 2023 General Secondary Education exams for the scientific stream with a score of 99.6, earning him a place in the Faculty of Medicine before the onset of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Key events

He was martyred along with his family members.

Abdullah Abu Jiyab was martyred along with his father, Aed Abu Jiyab, and his brother, engineer Khalil Abu Jiyab, in the Maghazi refugee camp massacre carried out by the occupying forces in the central Gaza Strip.

Duha Hassan Daghmash
Occupation
Medical or dentistry student

Key events

She was martyred along with her entire family.

The occupation committed one of the most horrific and largest massacres against the Daghmash family, targeting several homes of the Daghmash family in the Sabra neighborhood in the northeast of Gaza City. A total of 109 family members, including the aspiring physician Doaa Daghmash, were killed together.

Yassin Jihad Mahmud Al-Akhras
Occupation
Medical or dentistry student

Key events

He was martyred along with his family.

Yassin was martyred due to the targeting of his family's home in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.

Maysaa Abdel-Aziz Mohammed Thaher
Occupation
Medical or dentistry student

Key events

Martyred along with her family

Dr. Maysaa Thaher was martyred along with seven members of her family in the Thaher family massacre in Jabalia Camp after their home was bombed.

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Martyred Health Workers
Abducted Health Workers

Public Records

Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
condemns the repeated attacks by the occupation forces on Kamal Adwan Hospital
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 48
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #48
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