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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

Israel not only prevents entry of aid into Gaza, but also kills those who try to receive it

Geneva - The Israeli army is not only starving Palestinians in the northern Gaza Valley, but has also killed dozens of individuals who tried to receive the meagre aid that did arrive there, perpetuating the genocide that Israel has been committing against the people of the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement on Tuesday.

 

Israeli Knesset’s decision to deny Gaza detainees legal representation provides legal cover for crime of enforced disappearance

Geneva - The Israeli Knesset’s General Assembly approved regulations that prevent Gazan detainees from meeting with their lawyers for an additional four months, thereby creating a legal cover for the crime of enforced disappearance committed against thousands of detainees, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement issued Thursday.

 

Statistics on the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip (07 October - 19 January 2024)
Gaza witnesses bloody week following Israeli legal team’s presentation before the ICJ

Geneva - Israeli army forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) adjourned its hearings a week ago to consider South Africa’s lawsuit against Israel, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor stated. South Africa has accused Israeli of violating its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the rights group said.

 

Israel continues to attack starving Palestinians awaiting aid trucks; hundreds attacked in northern Gaza

Geneva – While famine spreads in the north of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army continues to kill Palestinians who are waiting to receive aid south of Gaza City, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said, confirming Israel’s intention to carry out genocide against the Strip’s civilian population since 7 October 2023.

 

Israel’s targeting of thousands of displaced Gazans in Khan Yunis is further evidence of its genocide

Geneva - The Israeli army’s targeting of thousands of displaced people in the area of Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip—which was previously designated as a safe zone—constitutes a perpetuation of its ongoing genocide in the Strip, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement issued on Tuesday. The rights group said this targeting serves as further evidence of Israel’s attempt to implement its forced displacement plan and give the people of Gaza the impression that there is nowhere safe for them to live.

 

Following the death of an infant, Euro-Med Monitor warns of growing number of Palestinian victims of Israeli starvation campaign

Geneva – The number of Palestinian victims of Israeli starvation in the Gaza Strip is poised to grow, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor warned in a new statement, particularly among children and the elderly. The rights group said that Israel is using starvation as a weapon in its genocidal war against the Gazan people, ongoing since 7 October 2023.

 

Gaza: International community must heed calls to stop Israel’s deliberate killing of starving civilians

Geneva – The latest instance of the Israeli army opening direct fire on Palestinians waiting for humanitarian supplies to enter Gaza City and the Strip’s northern areas has resulted in the killing of 20 people and injury of numerous others. The horrific crime was strongly denounced by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, which called it part of the Israeli strategy to starve and terrorise civilians across the Gaza Strip and impose additional restrictions on the entry and distribution of the already limited aid allowed to enter the besieged enclave.

 

Gaza: Israeli army executes two brothers who were following orders to evacuate Khan Yunis

Geneva - Israeli army forces continue to intentionally target civilians, carrying out premeditated murders and arbitrary extrajudicial executions, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement issued Friday. The rights group called attention to Israel’s massive attack in the west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and deemed it part of their genocide in the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023.

 

Residents in the southern Gaza Strip subjected to widespread murder and abuse by Israeli army, pushing them to forced displacement

Geneva - The Israeli army is expanding the scope of forced displacement in the southern Gaza Strip’s Khan Yunis Governorate, with mass killing, destruction, and comprehensive abuse, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement on Sunday, citing the widespread violence as evidence of Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinian civilians, ongoing since 7 October 2023,

 

Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)