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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

تحول مجمع ناصر لمكرهة صحية

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أعلنت وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية أن مجمع ناصر تحوّل لمكرهة صحية جراء تراكم النفايات الطبية بداخله[61]، كما اندلع حريق في الطابقيّن الثالث والرابع في المجمع عقب استهدافهم من مدفعية الاحتلال.

Invasion of the Nasser Complex

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Occupation forces stormed the courtyard of the hospital after demolishing the southern wall, turning it into a military barracks, bulldozed its yards, fired at its medical departments, used dogs to terrorize displaced people and patients, and arrested a number of medical staff and displaced who fled the complex. 

Demolition of the northern wall of the Nasser Medical Complex

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Occupation forces demolished the northern wall of the Nasser Hospital compound, and notified the hospital administration to evacuate displaced persons, patients, and medical staff. The occupation forces also opened fire at anyone trying to leave and evacuate at the hospital's gate and targeted schools in the surrounding area, leading to a fire that spread to the medical equipment warehouse and burned it completely, as well as the medical supplies warehouse which was burned by 80%.

تشديد الحصار على مجمع ناصر

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شددت قوات الاحتلال من حصار المجمع واستهدف محيطه بشكل مباشر ومركز، إضافة إلى تعريض حياة الكادر الطبي والنازحين للخطر المباشر بفعل انتشار طائرات "الكواد كابتر" والقناصة واستهداف بوابة الطوارئ في المجمع، ونقص حاد في المستلزمات الطبية" أدوية التخدير والعمليات الجراحية وغيرها"

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee: We cannot abandon the people of Gaza

NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME, 30 January 2024 – The allegations of involvement of several UNRWA staff in the heinous attacks on Israel on 7 October are horrifying. As the Secretary-General has said, any UN employee involved in acts of terror will be held accountable. 

However, we must not prevent an entire organization from delivering on its mandate to serve people in desperate need. 

Gaza: Israel must end its campaign of death and destruction

Jerusalem, Paris, Brussels, Barcelona, 28 May 2024 - As the United Nations Security Council meets today after Israel struck tent camps sheltering displaced people in designated “humanitarian zones” in southern Gaza, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls for an immediate end to the Rafah offensive and the ongoing atrocities across the Gaza Strip. Israel’s military strategy of repeatedly launching attacks in densely populated areas inevitably leads to the mass killing of civilians.

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)