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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

War in Gaza-Six months on: Report on MSF response, March 2024

Summary

Six months after the war between Israel and Hamas broke out in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are responding as much as is possible to the enormous needs in the Strip. MSF teams are also responding in the West Bank, where access to healthcare has become increasingly difficult since the events of 7 October 2023.

 

MSF’s activities in Palestine before October 2023

MSF report denounces Gaza’s “silent killings” from preventable disease and lack of access to medical care

Gaza/Jerusalem/Barcelona, 29 April 2024 – Gaza’s healthcare system has been devastated, with men, women and children at increasing risk of acute malnutrition and with their physical and mental health deteriorating rapidly, according to a report released today by international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) entitled Gaza’s Silent Killings: The destruction of the healthcare system and the struggle for survival in Rafah.

 

Enduring the unthinkable: Gaza’s healthcare workers grapple with the mental health impact of an unyielding war

After over six months of relentless war, Gaza’s healthcare workers have had to face unprecedented challenges to provide medical assistance to thousands of people, while trying to survive and manage the toll the war has taken on them personally. According to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) mental health staff, the impact of working in such extreme conditions will leave scars for years to come.

Thousands forced to flee as Israeli military offensive intensifies and aid is blocked in Rafah

JERUSALEM/BARCELONA/PARIS/BRUSSELS, 8 May 2024 – Israeli forces have begun their offensive on Rafah and have seized control of the border, effectively cutting off lifesaving aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip. As thousands of Palestinians are forced to flee eastern Rafah following Israel's recent evacuation orders, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls for protection of civilians and the reopening of the Rafah border crossing.

In Gaza “We did not have time to bury them”

On the morning of Saturday 8 June 2024, Israeli forces heavily bombed the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip, including Al-Nuseirat refugee camp. These deadly Israeli attacks reportedly killed at least 270 Palestinians and left about 700 wounded according to the local health authorities. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams, along with medical staff at Al-Aqsa and Nasser hospitals, treated hundreds of severely injured patients, many of whom were women and children.

The latest massacres in Gaza's Middle Area illustrate the complete dehumanisation of Palestinians

Jerusalem, Barcelona, Brussels, Paris – 11 June 2024 – Since the beginning of June, more than 800 people have been killed and over 2,400 wounded in intense bombing and ground offensives by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, according to health authorities; these horrific attacks have led to unacceptable pain and suffering and illustrate a clear disregard for Palestinian lives, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

 

Introduction

Since the beginning of the genocide, the actions of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) made clear that its systematic targeting and destruction of the health sector in Gaza is part of a strategy to erase Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by making it uninhabitable. By October 9, 2023 — the third day of the war — the Zionist air force had inflicted severe damage on the Beit Hanoun Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. This marked the first of a series of direct assaults on healthcare facilities since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on October 7, 2023.

Documentation Methodology

The documentation relies, until this point, on reliable secondary sources, primarily reports and statements by the Ministry of Health in Gaza, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, regular reports of hospitals and other health facilities, and reports and statements by the Government Media Office in Gaza, all of which collect primary data. This is in addition to other secondary sources, including relevant local and global organizations and reliable media and electronic sources, among others.

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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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