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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

General Assembly Concludes Debate on United Nations Membership for State of Palestine (13 May 2024)

TENTH EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION,

51ST & 52ND MEETINGS (AM & PM)

GA/12600

13 May 2024

General Assembly Concludes Debate on United Nations Membership for State of Palestine

(Note:  Due to the financial liquidity crisis affecting the United Nations and the resulting constraints, this meeting was not covered.)

UN General Assembly presses Security Council to give ‘favourable consideration’ to full Palestinian membership (10 May 2024)

What does the resolution mean?

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Here’s a quick recap of what this means: by adopting this resolution the General Assembly will upgrade the rights of the State of Palestine within the world body, but not the right to vote or put forward its candidature to such organs as the Security Council or the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Martyred alongside his family

Submitted by Farah.s.miqdad on

Dr. Yousef Abu Jadallah was martyred as a result of a strike on his residence in Gaza City alongside his wife Aya and their children Salah al-Deen, Mohammed, Abdel Rahman and Omar. His family were unable to pull their bodies from under the rubble for two weeks after they were martyred.

Martyred as a result of an airstrike in northern Gaza Strip

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He was martyred alongside his parents, siblings Mohammed, Mahmoud, Malak and Lina and her children, and two of his aunts as a result of an airstrike in Jabalia in the north of the Strip. It is worth noting that their house was bombed in the initial days of the genocide but they insisted on staying steadfast in the north until their martyrdom.

Targeting of the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital - Nuseirat Camp massacre

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Occupation forces targeted vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital with warplanes amid intense aerial and ground fire cover over several areas in Central Governorate, resulting in a large number of wounded and martyrs arriving at the hospital.The Media Office in Gaza announced that the number of martyrs from occupation massacres in Al-Nuseirat Camp reached 210, with more than 400 injured individuals arriving at Al-Awda Nuseirat Hospital and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital up to this date. 

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital has been evacuated after direct threat of bombing by occupation forces.

Evacuation of most patients and medical staff from Kamal Adwan Hospital

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The Ministry of Health evacuated most patients and medical staff from the hospital. The hospital is largely non-functional and has stopped receiving new patients, due to heavy fighting in its vicinity, exacerbated by the lack of basic medical supplies, water, food and fuel. 20 patients remained in the facility and could not be evacuated.

Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)