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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 Israeli occupation forces detonated a robot in front of Kamal Adwan Hospital

Ministry of Health in Gaza

🚨The Israeli occupation forces detonated a robot in front of Kamal Adwan Hospital, which caused shrapnel to reach the surgical departments and patients' accommodation, causing serious injuries to Dr. Hassan Dabous while he was on duty

تعاني مستشفى كمال عدوان من حصار خانق، حيث تم إحراق أقسام العمليات والجراحة والمختبر والصيانة ووحدات الإسعاف والمخازن بالكامل، وقد بدأ الحريق ينتشر الآن إلى جميع المباني

*وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية - غزة*🇵🇸

*مستشفى كمال عدوان*

تعاني مستشفى كمال عدوان من حصار خانق، حيث تم إحراق أقسام العمليات والجراحة والمختبر والصيانة ووحدات الإسعاف والمخازن بالكامل، وقد بدأ الحريق ينتشر الآن إلى جميع المباني.

يعمل جيش الاحتلال على نقل المرضى والمصابين بشكل إجباري وتحت تهديد السلاح وفوهات البنادق إلى المستشفى الإندونيسي، الذي يفتقر إلى المستلزمات الطبية والمياه والأدوية، وحتى الكهرباء والمولدات.

هناك مرضى مهددون بالموت في أي لحظة نتيجة الظروف القاسية.

Remarks by Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General at the Third Meeting of the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution

Foreign Minister Barthe Eide,

Prime Minister Mustapha,

Dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,

In just two weeks, two laws aimed at ending UNRWA’s operations in the occupied Palestinian territory will enter into force.

Full implementation of the laws will ban UNRWA from operating in the “sovereign territory of Israel” and ban contact between Israeli authorities and the Agency.

Press briefing by UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini

This morning, I briefed the Security Council in a closed session.

I welcomed the ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza.

I joined the Secretary-General in calling on all parties to ensure the deal is fully implemented.

We need rapid, unhindered and uninterrupted humanitarian access to respond to the tremendous suffering in Gaza.

A ceasefire is only a starting point.

UNRWA is ready to support the international response by scaling up aid delivery.

The people of Gaza hear the sound of playing children instead of bombardments and airstrikes

After 470 + days,  the people of Gaza hear the sound of playing children instead of bombardments and airstrikes.

Our UNRWA teams reported a first good day of the ceasefire; aid and some commercial supplies started flowing in smoothly.

Three hostages were at long last safely released, while Palestinian prisoners have now reunited with their families. Thank you, ICRC. 

The ceasefire must continue to hold and all elements of the agreement must be implemented.

It is a step in the right direction towards long-lasting peace and stability for all.

THE EU DISBURSEMENT OF EUR 16 MILLION WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE MUCH NEEDED SUPPORT TO PALESTINE REFUGEES IN GAZA AND IN THE REGION

AMMAN- UNRWA welcomes a much-anticipated disbursement of EUR 16 million from the European Commission. This payment is the remaining tranche of the EU’s contribution to the Agency for 2024, bringing to EUR 82 million the EU's total assistance to UNRWA’s core budget for this year.  

United Nations Security Council press statement on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

The Members of the Security Council emphasized the vital role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to Palestinian refugees through essential education, health, relief and social services programmes and emergency assistance in the occupied Palestinian territory, Jordan, Lebanon and the Syrian Arab Republic.

UN Food Convoy Successfully Reaches Southern Gaza

A joint United Nations convoy delivered urgently needed food to communities in southern and central Gaza today. A total of 105 trucks successfully completed their journeys along the Philadelphi corridor and adjacent routes - which has provided food for nearly 200,000 people.

365 Days of Humanitarian Response in the Gaza Strip
Key statistics - April, 10 2025
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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
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Institute for Palestine Studies

Hospital Functionality

  • Fully functional hospitals
    0
  • Partially functional hospitals
    22
  • Non-functioning hospitals
    14
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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
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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
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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
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Palestinian Ministry of Health / Gaza
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)