The OCHA oPt Flash Update is published every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with a comprehensive update on the West Bank included every Wednesday. The next update will be issued on 17 May.
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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
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The OCHA oPt Flash Update is published every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with a comprehensive update on the West Bank included every Wednesday. The next update will be issued on 20 May.
Figures that are yet-to-be verified by the UN are attributed to their source. Casualty numbers have been provided by the Ministry of Health or the Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza and the Israeli authorities. Previous data breakdowns provided in this snapshot of women and children killed were attributed to the GMO based on reported fatalities. The fatality breakdowns currently cited are those that the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza has recently fully identified out of the higher number of casualties they report.
Dr. Adnan al-Bursh's arrest from al-Awda Hospital
In December 2023, Dr. Adnan al-Bursh was abducted and transferred to Israeli prisoners. According to prisoner rights' organizations, he was subjected to severe torture, leading to his death.
Dr. Adnan al-Bursh's injury while performing surgery at the Indonesian Hospital
While he was working in the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip in November 2023, a video circulated documenting the moment he was injured and became soaked in blood while conducting a surgical operation in an Israeli airstrike targeting the hospital. He was operated on in the darkness due to a power outage, before Israeli forces raided the hospital and forced those in it to evacuate.
Targeting of her home and her martyrdom alongside her family
Dr. Doaa Shamout was injured in an airstrike on her home alongside her daughter Zeina, mother, sister, aunts and uncle on 24 December 2023. She was treated in intensive care until her martyrdom on 31 December.
Martyred alongside his family in their home
Dr. Mohammed Hammoudeh was martyred in an airstrike on the family home and the Hammoudeh medical center where the Hammoudeh family was staying in Beit Lahia, resulting in the martyrdom of 12 members of the family, including his father Dr. Ahmad Hammoudeh.
Bombing of his home and his martyrdom alongside his family
Dr. Khamees al-Najjar, member of the legislative council, was martyred alongside his wife, two of his children, and several of his grandchildren as a result of an occupation airstrike on his home in Khan Yunis.
Martyred in a strike on his home
Dr. Abdelrahman al-Ghareez was martyred alongside his wife and two children in a strike on their home in Nuseirat camp.