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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

Amal Yousef Hassan al-Maqadmeh
Occupation
Doctor

Gained a master's in microbiology and undertook specialisation in radiology in the European Hospital. Dr. Nisreen al-Halabi, Area Health Officer of the UNRWA Health Programme in Gaza, remarked "Dr. Amal was one of our best doctors – full of energy and vitality; her soul and passion in dealing with patients and colleagues were outstanding."

Key events

Martyrdom

She was martyred alongside her sisters, Hanaa and Malak, and her niece Julia as a result of an airstrike on their home in Nuseirat Camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip. Their bodies were recovered the day after the strike, while their father's body remains buried under the rubble.

Muath Mahmoud Nimer al-Nabaheen
Occupation
Doctor

Workplace

Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital

Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital

Key events

His martyrdom

He was martyred alongside several of his family members after their house was targeted. Muath had spent several consecutive days volunteering in the emergency department in al-Quds Martyrs Hospital in the middle of the Gaza Strip. As soon as he arrived home to rest, his house was targeted with everyone in it.

Abdallah Arafat Ashour
Occupation
Doctor

Workplace

Nasser Medical Complex

Nasser Medical Complex

Key events

Martyred in a strike on his sister's home in Khan Yunis

He was martyred as a result of a critical injury in an airstrike on his sister's home in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip after spending three consecutive days in intensive care. His sister, her three daughters and granddaughter were martyred as a result of the same airstrike.

Mohammed al-Sameeri
Occupation
Doctor
Sa'ed Maher Abdelhadi Daraybeh
Occupation
Doctor

Workplace

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Key events

The targeting of Trens neighbourhood

He was martyred in the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces against civilians in the Trens area in Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. He had gone to buy some necessities for his only child.

Sereen Mohammed Yousef al-Attar
Occupation
Doctor

Key events

Airstrike targeting her home

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.

Mahmoud Deeb Salem al-Khayyat
Occupation
Doctor

Key events

Bombardment of his house and his martyrdom alongside his family

Dr. Mahmoud and his entire family were martyred as a result of a direct strike on their home in Rafah, to which his children and their families were displaced. Dr. Mahmoud was martyred alongside his wife Raja' (Um Tamer), his son Dr. Tamer al-Khayyat with his wife Dr. Razan and their daughter Rose, his son Basel al-Khayyat with his wife Hadeel and their children Elyaa, Seleen, Mahmoud and 2-month-old Mohammed, and his daughter Hiba al-Khayyat with her four children Omar, Benan, Jenan, and Elyaa. They had fled to their grandfather's house in search of safety. The only survivor of the strike that killed 18 members of her family was Dr. Tamer's infant daughter Miral.

Mohammed Atef Mohammed Dabbour (As'ad)
Occupation
Doctor

Dr. Mohammed Dabbour established the first laboratory to test patient biopsies, which previously could not be tested in the Gaza Strip and had to be sent to Egypt or Cyprus. He was the first and only pathology specialist in Gaza.

He had been working on a clinical research project with Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, at the American University of Beirut's CREEW center.

Workplace

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Key events

Targeting of his car and his martyrdom

He was martyred alongside members of his family (his son and father) after his car was targeted as they fled to the South during the "safe" period that the Israeli occupation forces had announced in their leaflets at the time

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Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
condemns the repeated attacks by the occupation forces on Kamal Adwan Hospital
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 48
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #48
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