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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

The arrest of medical teams while passing through the humanitarian corridor.

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Occupation forces arrested two PRCS volunteers, Tamer Muhammad Hussein Shahin and Hamdan Samer Abu Khater, while they were passing on February 5 within the humanitarian corridor for displaced people at Al-Amal Hospital. The rest of the medical staff and patients remained trapped inside the hospital due to the continued lack of communications and the occupation targeting the hospital's surroundings.

The arrest of medical teams from Al-Amal Hospital.

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The occupation summoned both the member of the executive office of the PRCS and the general director of Al-Amal Hospital, Dr. Haidar Al-Qidra, in addition to the administrative director of the hospital, Maher Atallah, and took them to an unknown destination. Occupation forces also forced the displaced people inside the hospital to leave it amid a state of panic and intensive shooting.

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Medical scientists

Professor of hereditary research, deputy director of the board of Al Hanan Association for Supporting Cancer Patients, co-founder of the Cancer Research Center in Gaza.

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Physiotherapist

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Medical or dentistry student

Abdulrahman hoped to become a doctor and specialize in neurosurgery. During the war, he volunteered in the Gaza European Hospital to support medical teams even after his displacement and detention. At the time of his martyrdom, he was in his third year of medical school.

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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)