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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

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.

Remarks from the President of the 78th Session of the General Assembly

PGA Remarks at the 10th Emergency Special Session (resumed).

PGA remarks at the 10th Emergency Special Session (resumed)

Friday, 10 May 2024, 10:00 am, GA-Hall

[As Delivered]

 

Excellencies,

Distinguished Delegates,

 

Decades ago, the situation in the Middle East marked the first significant crisis for the newly established United Nations.

 

At Emergency Special Session, General Assembly Overwhelmingly Backs Membership of Palestine to United Nations, Urges Security Council Support Bid (10 May 2024)

TENTH EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION,

49TH & 50TH MEETINGS (AM & PM)

GA/12599

10 May 2024

At Emergency Special Session, General Assembly Overwhelmingly Backs Membership of Palestine to United Nations, Urges Security Council Support Bid

General Assembly Concludes Debate on United Nations Membership for State of Palestine (13 May 2024)

TENTH EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION,

51ST & 52ND MEETINGS (AM & PM)

GA/12600

13 May 2024

General Assembly Concludes Debate on United Nations Membership for State of Palestine

(Note:  Due to the financial liquidity crisis affecting the United Nations and the resulting constraints, this meeting was not covered.)

UN General Assembly presses Security Council to give ‘favourable consideration’ to full Palestinian membership (10 May 2024)

What does the resolution mean?

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Here’s a quick recap of what this means: by adopting this resolution the General Assembly will upgrade the rights of the State of Palestine within the world body, but not the right to vote or put forward its candidature to such organs as the Security Council or the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Martyred alongside his family

Submitted by Farah.s.miqdad on

Dr. Yousef Abu Jadallah was martyred as a result of a strike on his residence in Gaza City alongside his wife Aya and their children Salah al-Deen, Mohammed, Abdel Rahman and Omar. His family were unable to pull their bodies from under the rubble for two weeks after they were martyred.

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Key statistics - April, 10 2025
source
Palestinian Ministry of Health / Gaza

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
Note: Cumulative figures as confirmed from multiple sources until the stated date
source
Institute for Palestine Studies

Hospital Functionality

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

Medicines and Equipments

  • Medical Disposables at Zero Stock
    59%
  • Essential Medicines at Zero Stock
    37%
  • Cancer Medicines at Zero Stock
    54%
  • Diabetes Patients with Unavailable Medicines
    80,000
  • Hypertension Patients with Unavailable Medicines
    110,000
source
Palestinian Ministry of Health / Gaza

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
Note: Cumulative figures until the stated date, so each person may suffer from an infectious disease multiple times during the genocide
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

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Humanitarian Situation Update #278 | Gaza Strip
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Reported impact snapshot | Gaza Strip (8 April 2025)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
The Secretary-General – remarks to the press on Gaza