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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

oPt Emergency Situation Update, Issue 52 |7 Oct 2023 - 4 Dec 2024
The Indonesian Hospital in North Gaza has been taken out of service and no longer provides any services to patients or the wounded.

*Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza*
*🔴Notice*
▪️The Indonesian Hospital in North Gaza has been taken out of service and no longer provides any services to patients or the wounded.

▪️It is worth noting that the North Gaza Governorate included three public hospitals, namely Kamal Adwan Hospital, Beit Hanoun Hospital and the Indonesian Hospital, and they were all taken out of service and destroyed by the occupation.

Press Release Issued by the Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)

*Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza*

🚨🚨 Press Release

▪️ After exceptional and intensive efforts regarding the fuel crisis that Gaza Strip hospitals suffered from a few days ago, which almost destroyed the hospitals.
▪️We were informed by international organizations (OCHA) that they succeeded in bringing in quantities of fuel and working on the continuity of the supply to ensure that there is no crisis in the near term.

Ministry of Health

January 11, 2025

Daily statistical report of the number of martyrs and wounded as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip- 21-01-2025

*Palestinian Ministry of Health-Gaza*

*🔴 Daily statistical report of the number of martyrs and wounded as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. *

▪️72 martyrs arrived in the Gaza Strip hospitals * (including 68 were resurged and 1 martyr affected by his injury)* and 56 injuries, during the past 24 hours.

▪ A number of victims remain under rubble and on the roads that ambulance and civil defense teams cannot reach them.

Statement No. (677) Issued by the Government Media Office

⭕ *Statement No. (677) Issued by the Government Media Office:*

🔴 *The Government Media Office provides an update on the key statistics of the genocide being perpetrated by the occupation in the Gaza Strip on Day 410 – Tuesday, November 19, 2024:*

◻️ 410 days of genocide.
◻️ 3,838 massacres committed by the occupation forces.
◻️ 54,972 martyrs and missing persons.
◻️ 11,000 missing persons.

Gaza Humanitarian Response Update | 5-18 January
Hala Akram Abu Ahmed
Occupation
Doctor

Workplace

Key events

Martyred in a strike on al-Daraj neighborhood

Dr. Abu Ahmed was martyred alongside her mother, brother, and sister in a strike on al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, following the announcement of the ceasefire deal but before it entered into force.

Sa'eed Joudeh
Occupation
Doctor

Dr. Sa'eed Joudeh worked in Al-Awda Hospital and Kamal Adwan Hospital in his final weeks, as he was the only specialist orthopedic surgeon in the northern Gaza Strip during the siege that began in early October 2024 and was ongoing during the latest update to this file in January 2025. A statement by the Ministry of Health reported that Dr. Joudeh had been shot and injured by occupation forces two weeks prior to his martyrdom and returned to work following his injury.

Workplace

Al Awda Hospital

Al Awda Hospital

Key events

Martyred as he made his way to Al-Awda Hospital

Dr. Sa'eed Joudeh was making his way from Kamal Adwan Hospital to Al-Awda Hospital to treat some cases when he was struck in his head by an Israeli tank, according to the testimony of the driver of the ambulance Dr. Joudeh was martyred in.

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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
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
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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)
The Secretary-General – remarks to the press on Gaza
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)