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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

Midhat Mahmoud Khamees Saydam
Occupation
Doctor

Testimony from Dr. Ahmed Mufeed El-Mokhallalati: "Yesterday, we bid farwell to Dr. Midhat Saydam, the plastic surgeon in the department, as a result of an Israeli airstrike on his house, killing him and his family members. He was a prominent plastic surgeon in the Strip. He was a big brother, a compassionate human, and a brilliant doctor. He dedicated his life to the service and care of patients and the training of a new generation of youth. I used to call him the Mukhtar [Chief] of the unit – I cannot imagine the spirit of the place after his passing.

Workplace

Key events

Bombardment of his house and his martyrdom alongside his family

His house was targeted upon his return to visit his family after seven consecutive days of work in al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Dr. Midhat was martyred alongside his entire family in their house in Tel al-Hawa neighborhood.

Tamer Mahmoud Deeb al-Khayyat
Occupation
Doctor

Workplace

European Gaza Hospital

Gaza European Hospital

Key events

Bombardment of his house and his martyrdom alongside his family

Dr. Tamer and his entire family were martyred as a result of a direct strike to their house in Rafah, after being displaced to the house of his father, Dr. Mahmoud al-Khayyat. Dr. Mahmoud's infant daughter was the only survivor from the strike that killed the 18 other members of her family who were in the house.

Aya Omar Saleh Farwanah
Occupation
Doctor

Workplace

Rimal Martyrs Health Center

Key events

Bombardment of her house and her martyrdom

The Israeli Airforce struck the house of Dr. Ayah Farwanah which stood in Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood in southwest Gaza, killing her instantly alongside her father, Dr. Omar Farwanah, her mother, her brother, and his two daughters.

Omar Saleh Omar Farwanah
Occupation
Doctor

Omar Farwanah worked as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Islamic University in Gaza and helped establish the "Public Service" and "Friends of the Patient" hospitals in Gaza, after gaining his bachelor's degree in medicine from Cairo University and PhD from Leeds University, a prominent university in the United Kingdom. He trained at the University of West Australia and gained 30 years of experience in fertility medicine and IVF.

Workplace

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Key events

Bombardment of his house and his martyrdom

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. Aya Farwanah, his wife, his son, and his two granddaughters.

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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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