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
Limited Prenatal Care; Unsafe Deliveries; Newborns Facing Fatal Conditions
(Jerusalem, January 28, 2025) – The Israeli government’s blockade of Gaza and attacks on healthcare facilities have created serious and sometimes life-threatening danger for women and girls during and after pregnancy and delivery since hostilities began in October 2023, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
This statement was originally posted on the official website of the Government of Canada on behalf of the Foreign Ministers of Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom and is accessible here.
October 26, 2024 - Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada
Chaired by Spain, the Advisory Commission held an extraordinary meeting on 24 October 2024 in the context of the draft bills on UNRWA introduced in the Knesset.
During the meeting, members shared their deep concerns about the serious consequences for UNRWA and its work should these bills be finally approved.
If adopted, the bills would make it impossible for UNRWA to implement its mandate according to UN General Assembly Resolution 302(IV) (1949) and would effectively prevent the operations of the Agency in the occupied Palestinian territory.
The vote by the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) against UNRWA this evening is unprecedented and sets a dangerous precedent. It opposes the UN Charter and violates the State of Israel’s obligations under international law.
I am deeply concerned by the adoption today by the Knesset of Israel of two laws concerning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which, if implemented, would likely prevent UNRWA from continuing its essential work in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, as mandated by the UN General Assembly.
UNRWA is the principal means by which essential assistance is supplied to Palestine refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. There is no alternative to UNRWA.
His Excellency
Mr. Philémon Yang
President of the General Assembly
New York
Dear Mr. President,
Riyadh
Your Royal Highness, Prince Faisal Ben Farhan
Excellencies,
The vote by the Knesset against UNRWA this week is outrageous and sets a dangerous precedent.
It is the latest in an ongoing campaign to discredit UNRWA and delegitimize its role in providing human-development and assistance to Palestine Refugees.
NEW YORK, 30 October 2024 -
"UNRWA is the main UN agency providing essential services and protection to Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and is the backbone of the humanitarian response in Gaza. As the Secretary-General has said, ‘there is no alternative to UNRWA.’
New York
Mr. President,
Excellencies,
I am addressing you at UNRWA’s darkest hour.
The Israeli Knesset’s legislative action poses an imminent and existential threat to the Agency.
It is the latest move in a relentless campaign to delegitimize UNRWA and undermine its role providing development services and emergency assistance to Palestine Refugees.
Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, Israeli officials have described dismantling UNRWA as a war goal.
How are these services going to be replaced? Who is going to provide these services?’
Eric Reidy, Editor and Reporter, Migration and Special Coverage
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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.
Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital was opened in 1882 in al-Zaytun neighborhood south of Gaza City near the St. Philip the Evangelist Church, by English missionaries, led by Rev. Elliott.
The Nasser Medical Complex is the second largest hospital in the Gaza Strip after Al-Shifa, with 1,227 medical staff.
Al-Shifa Hospital Complex is one of the largest health institutions in the Gaza Strip.
Located in the city of Dayr al-Balah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is a major government hospital in al-Wusta governorate in the Gaza Strip.
Opened in 2000, the European Gaza Hospital is located in al-Fukhari in the Khan Younis governorate.
Al-Bursh was killed while imprisoned at the Ofer Prison on April 19, 2024. He was subjected to severe torture and his body remains held by Israel.
The Israeli Airforce struck the house of Dr. Omar Farwanah, which was located in Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood in south-west Gaza. Dr. Omar was martyred alongside his daughter, Dr.
His house was targeted upon his return to visit his family after seven consecutive days of work in al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Dr.
He was martyred alongside his father, father-in-law and brother-in-law as a result of a strike of his in-laws' house, where he, his two children and his pregnant wife had fled.
She was martyred alongside her daughter and other members of her family as a result of an airstrike targeting her home in Bureij Camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
After he and his mother, Dr. of education and mathematics teacher Dr. Yusra Abdelaziz Maqadmeh, were unreachable for two weeks after the second raid on al-Shifa Medical Complex, the bodies of Dr.
The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz announced that Dr. Iyad al-Rantisi had died in an interrogation center in the city of Askalan, six days after his abduction.
Dr. Midhat Mhaisen was martyred as a result of a strike targeting the hospital, which injured several other doctors.
Occupation forces arrested Dr. Abu Safiya after evacuating Kamal Adwan Hospital, forcing him to walk amid the rubble of the destroyed hospital towards an occupation tank.
Dr. Mohammed Obeid worked at Kamal Adwan Hospital during the final siege on it in Autumn 2024 until it was evacuated completely.
Israeli occupation forces arrested Margaret al-Ra'ee and her husband from their home in Qalqilya.
اعتقلت قوات الاحتلال مدير دائرة العلاج الطبيعي في وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية، أيمن الحلبي أثناء اقتحامها مجمع الشفاء الطبي للمرة الثانية برفقة عدد كبير من الطواقم الطبية.
Dr. Murad al-Quqa was arrested alongside several other health workers, during "al-Shifa massacre", the second raid on the hospital, during which it was destroyed.
اعتقلت قوات الاحتلال الطبيب محمد حميد أبو موسى من داخل مجمع ناصر الطبي عقب اقتحامه، إضافة إلى اعتقال عدد من الكوادر الطبية.
Occupation forces arrested Nahed Abu Ta'mieh alongside several other health workers in a raid in Nasser Medical Complex.
Occupation forces abducted Dr. Mos'ab Samaan alongside several other healthcare workers from inside Nasser Medical Complex
اعتقلت قوات الاحتلال المسعف تامر شاهين أثناء مروره على " الممر الإنساني" برفقة زميله المسعف حمدان أبو خاطر.
اعتقلت قوات الاحتلال ماهر عطا الله المدير الإداري لمستشفى الأمل في خانيونس، عقب استدعائه هو والدكتور حيدر القدرة المدير العام للمستشفى واقتيادهما إلى جهة غير معلومة.
