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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

Nahed Salman al-Harazeen
Occupation
Doctor

Workplace

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Key events

Her martyrdom

She was martyred alongside members of her family as a result of a strike on her home in Shujaiya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City.

Ayman Mohammed As'ad al-Jarjawi
Occupation
Anaesthetic technician

Workplace

مستشفى كمال عدوان

Kamal Adwan Hospital

Key events

Martyred alongside members of his family

Dr. Ayman al-Jarjawi was martyred alongside his father Mohammed and his nephew Amjad Ahmad al-Jarjawi as a result of a strike on his home in Gaza City.

Mohammed Ahmad Ata Hammoudeh
Occupation
Doctor

Workplace

Indonesian Hospital

Indonesian Hospital

Key events

Martyred alongside his family in their home

Dr. Mohammed Hammoudeh was martyred in an airstrike on the family home and the Hammoudeh medical center where the Hammoudeh family was staying in Beit Lahia, resulting in the martyrdom of 12 members of the family, including his father Dr. Ahmad Hammoudeh.

Ahmad Ata Ahmad Hammoudeh
Occupation
Doctor

Key events

Martyred alongside family members

Dr. Ahmad Hammoudeh was martyred alongside twelve members of his family, including Dr. Mohammed Hammoudeh, as a result of an aristrike on their home in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

Usama Sufian Abdelrahman Othman Tayeh
Occupation
Doctor

The eldest son of professor Sufian Abdelrahman Tayeh, the president of the Islamic University in Gaza. Dr. Usama had been at the beginning of his medical career, having recently graduated from medical school in Sudan. He went back to the Gaza Strip to continue his life close to his family and had got married a few months prior to the start of the genocidal war on the Strip.

Key events

Bombing of his home and his martyrdom alongside his family

He was martyred alongside his father and other members of his family as a result of a strike on their home in Falouja neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip. The bodies of the family were pulled from under the rubble on May 4, 2024, around five months after they were martyred.

Mohammed Yahya Ahmad Suleiman Adwan
Occupation
Doctor

Dr. Mohammed Adwan was the first to introduce endoscopy to the Gaza Strip. He worked for over 40 years in medicine and was working until the last day of his life. He was a father to two martyrs and was a heart disease patient.

Workplace

Palestinian Ministry of Health

Key events

Sniper bullet to the head

Dr. Mohammed suffered from a chronic heart disease but was forced to evacuate on foot towards the south. He was martyred as a result of a sniper bullet to his head by an occupation soldier. His children carried his body on foot along the painful path for over 20 kilometers to the south of the Strip.

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Key statistics - April, 10 2025

Health workforce targeted

  • Health Sector martyers
    1172
  • Martyred doctors
    115
  • Martyred nurses
    290
  • Health workers martyred in detention
    4
  • Health sector detainees
    181
  • Health sector freed detainees
    199
source
Institute for Palestine Studies

Hospital Functionality

  • Fully functional hospitals
    0
  • Partially functional hospitals
    22
  • Non-functioning hospitals
    14
source
Health Cluster

Attacks on Health Care

  • Completely destroyed hospitals
    9
  • Partially destroyed hospitals
    25
  • Mass graves in hospitals
    7
  • Ambulances targeted
    115
source
Institute for Palestine Studies

Health Impact

  • Deaths due to famine
    52
  • Deaths due to extreme cold
    17
  • Cases of infectious diseases
    2136026
  • Patients needing evacuation abroad
    22000
  • Deaths while waiting to travel for medical treatment
    350
source
Palestinian Ministry of Health / Gaza
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Doctor, injured, prisoner, martyr: Adnan Ahmad Atieh al-Bursh

Al-Bursh was martyred in Ofer Prison on April 19, 2024 after being subjected to severe torture, killing him. His body is still being held.

Artwork by Butros Al Maari
Health Facilities
Martyred Health Workers
Abducted Health Workers

Public Records

Dr. Abdullah Ghali Recounts Healthcare Under Siege During Gaza Mission Last Year
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Reported impact snapshot | Gaza Strip (25 March 2025)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Note to Correspondents: on Gaza