Al-Awda Hospital – Jabalia, is located in Tel al-Zaatar, east of Jabalia refugee camp, is one of the largest community hospitals in Gaza. It opened in 1997 with funds provided by local donations and it has subsequently been developed and upgraded to improve its capacity. The hospital is the main provider of maternity services in northern Gaza Strip and the only provider of fluoroscopy services. It is also licensed as a teaching hospital by some universities in Gaza to train nursing students[1][2]. It has a medical staff of 35 doctors and support staff during the war of genocide[3].
The hospital is managed by Al-Awda Health and Community Association (formerly the Union of Health Work Committees), which seeks to achieve community health empowerment and promote the concept of comprehensive health through primary health care programs, secondary and tertiary health care programs, and protection of women and children. Al-Awda Health and Community Association is a Palestinian non-governmental organization that aims to improve the health situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Founded on the initiative of volunteers working in the health sector in 1985, the Union of Health Work Committees worked in the context of the First Intifada, and their work continued to be politicized through the provision of relief and emergency services. These committees were established as part of the mass frameworks that strengthened Palestinian steadfastness and resistance to the occupation, before the arrival of the Palestinian Authority in the late 1990s. Since then Al-Awda Association has moved towards more professional health work without losing its status as a mass organization[4][5].
Development
In 2018: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) signed a partnership with Al-Awda Hospital, allowing MSF staff to work in the hospital and perform reconstructive surgery for adults and trauma surgery for children[6].
The main targeting and assaults During the genocide
- Al Jazeera Media Network, Encyclopedia.
- Culture of Resistance Network, Website.
- Journalist Muthana Al Najjar, Telegram.
- Al Awda Health and Community Association, Facebook.
- Health Work Committees, Web Archive.
- Doctors Without Borders- Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), News release.
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, via Web Archive.
- Journalist Youssef Fares, quoting a statement from Al-Awda Hospital - Jabalia, Telegram.
- Al Awda Health and Community Association, Facebook.
- Al Awda Health and Community Association, Facebook.
- Al Awda Health and Community Association, Facebook.
- Al Awda Health and Community Association, Facebook.
- Journalist Youssef Fares, Telegram.
- Al Awda Health and Community Association, Facebook.
- Al Awda Health and Community Association, Facebook.
- Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza, Telegram.
- Health and Community Return Association, Facebook.
- Health and Community Return Association, Facebook.
- Journalist Youssef Fares, Telegram.
- Journalist Youssef Fares, Telegram.
- Activist Hamza Al Masry, A channel dedicated for field follow-up, Telegram.
- Journalist Youssef Fares, quoted from the Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza, Telegram.
- Journalist Youssef Fares, Telegram.
- Doctor Without Borders - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), News release.
- Journalist Muthanna Al-Najjar, quoted from a statement by the Health and Community Return Association, Telegram.
- Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza, Telegram.
- Journalist Muthanna Al-Najjar, Telegram.
- Journalist Muthanna Al-Najjar, Telegram.
- Journalist Muthanna Al-Najjar, Telegram.
- Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza, Telegram.
- Journalist Youssef Fares, quoted from the World Health Organization, Telegram.
- Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza, Telegram.
- Journalist Youssef Fares, Telegram.
- Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza, Telegram.
- Journalist Muthanna Al-Najjar, Telegram.
- Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza, Telegram.
- Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza, Telegram.
- Health and Community Return Association, Facebook.
- Health and Community Return Association, Facebook.
- Health and Community Return Association, Facebook.
- Al Jazeera Media Network, News release.
- Anadolu Agency, Press report.
- Al Jazeera Media Network, News release.
- Activist Hamza Al-Masry, Telegram.
- Activist Hamza Al-Masry, Telegram.
- Activist Hamza Al-Masry, Telegram.
- Activist Hamza Al-Masry, Telegram.
- Journalist Youssef Fares, Telegram.
- Activist Hamza Al-Masry, Telegram.
- Activist Hamza Al-Masry, Telegram.
- Jordan News Agency, News release.
- Al-Araby TV, Facebook.
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Report.