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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

Israeli army defiles hundreds of graves in the Gaza Strip, steals dead bodies

Geneva – Israel’s army has attacked at least 12 cemeteries in the Gaza Strip by deliberately bulldozing and desecrating hundreds of graves and stealing dozens of bodies from them as part of its genocidal war on Palestinians in the Strip, which started on 7 October 2023, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement.

 

In total disregard to South Africa’s lawsuit, Israel continues its genocidal war in Gaza

Geneva - The Israeli army has killed 2,124 Palestinians and injured 3,463 others since South Africa filed a lawsuit in the International Court for Justice (ICJ) on 29 December 2023, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Tuesday. The lawsuit accuses Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, in violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

 

Limiting or prohibiting medications from reaching injured and ill people is a death sentence and form of genocide

Geneva - Those who have survived Israel’s ongoing air, land, and sea raids on the Gaza Strip face an imminent risk of death amid a dire lack of medications and serious spread of epidemics, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said.

 

Lack of access to clean drinking water is a death sentence for the people of Gaza

Geneva - The catastrophic lack of clean drinking water sources in Gaza City and the northern areas of the Gaza Strip has left Palestinians there facing a horrifying tragedy akin to a death sentence, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement issued Monday, citing the war crime as further evidence of the genocide Israel has been carrying out against the Strip’s civilian population since 7 October 2023.

 

On 100th day of Gaza genocide: 100,000 Palestinians killed, missing or wounded

Geneva - About 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, reported missing, or wounded since 7 October 2023 due to Israel’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement on Saturday, noting that the number includes those who now have long-term disabilities.

 

Israel not only prevents entry of aid into Gaza, but also kills those who try to receive it

Geneva - The Israeli army is not only starving Palestinians in the northern Gaza Valley, but has also killed dozens of individuals who tried to receive the meagre aid that did arrive there, perpetuating the genocide that Israel has been committing against the people of the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement on Tuesday.

 

Israeli Knesset’s decision to deny Gaza detainees legal representation provides legal cover for crime of enforced disappearance

Geneva - The Israeli Knesset’s General Assembly approved regulations that prevent Gazan detainees from meeting with their lawyers for an additional four months, thereby creating a legal cover for the crime of enforced disappearance committed against thousands of detainees, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement issued Thursday.

 

Statistics on the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip (07 October - 19 January 2024)
Gaza witnesses bloody week following Israeli legal team’s presentation before the ICJ

Geneva - Israeli army forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) adjourned its hearings a week ago to consider South Africa’s lawsuit against Israel, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor stated. South Africa has accused Israeli of violating its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the rights group said.

 

Israel continues to attack starving Palestinians awaiting aid trucks; hundreds attacked in northern Gaza

Geneva – While famine spreads in the north of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army continues to kill Palestinians who are waiting to receive aid south of Gaza City, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said, confirming Israel’s intention to carry out genocide against the Strip’s civilian population since 7 October 2023.

 

Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)