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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

Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #144

Key Highlights

The Israeli military operation inside and around Al Shifa Hospital is ongoing for the fourth consecutive day.
According to Oxfam, the Israeli authorities have been arbitrarily rejecting the entry into Gaza of civilian goods that have a potential military use.
The Israeli Supreme Court issued a temporary injunction against the return of some 25 patients from East Jerusalem and Israel to Gaza.

Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 167

Arrest of Dr. Ahmad Muhanna

Submitted by m.halabi on Wed, 05/08/2024 - 13:05

Occupation forces stormed al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip and conducted field interrogations with several displaced people, patients, and health workers. They also stripped and detained health personnel who were present in the hospital, releasing most of them later, while keeping Dr. Ahmad Muhanna under arrest.

Complete destruction of Karamah Specialized Hospital

Submitted by zaqoutrima on Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:59

Media outlets reported the complete destruction of the hospital by the occupation forces.

Haifa Charity Hospital partially resumes operations

Submitted by zaqoutrima on Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:43

The hospital's administration announced via Facebook that the hospital had reopened, providing reception and emergency, laboratory, dental and optical services.

Power generators at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital halt

Submitted by zaqoutrima on Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:20

Two people were martyred due to oxygen depletion and the failure of generators at the hospital.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital resumes operations

Submitted by zaqoutrima on Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:19

The hospital returned to operation after being shut down. The hospital's medical staff provided orthopedic and reconstructive surgery, wound care, physiotherapy and psychological support.

Partial resumption of services at Al-Helou International Hospital

Submitted by zaqoutrima on Wed, 05/08/2024 - 10:29

UNOCHA reported that the Ministry of Health in Gaza was able to restart some services at the hospital.

Al-Helou International Hospital goes out of service

Submitted by zaqoutrima on Wed, 05/08/2024 - 10:28

Local news outlets report that the hospital was out of service.

Siege of Al-Helou International Hospital

Submitted by zaqoutrima on Wed, 05/08/2024 - 10:27

Local news outlets reported that occupation tanks surround more than 100 patients and medical staff at the hospital. The director of the hospital told Al Jazeera that the hospital did not have water or fuel and that contaminated rainwater was being used for sterilization.

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Health Facilities

Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital

Deir al Balah - Salah al-Din Road

Located in the city of Dayr al-Balah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is a major government hospital in al-Wusta governorate in the Gaza Strip.

Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital

Al Ahli Arab Hospital

Gaza - Al-Saha area

Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital was opened in 1882 in al-Zaytun neighborhood south of Gaza City near the St. Philip the Evangelist Church, by English missionaries, led by Rev. Elliott.

Al Ahli Arab Hospital

Nasser Medical Complex

Khan Yunis - Khan Yunis

The Nasser Medical Complex is the second largest hospital in the Gaza Strip after Al-Shifa, with 1,227 medical staff.

Nasser Medical Complex

Gaza European Hospital

Khan Yunis - Al-Fukhkhari

Opened in 2000, the European Gaza Hospital is located in al-Fukhari in the Khan Younis governorate.

Gaza European Hospital

Kamal Adwan Hospital

North Gaza - Beit Lahia

The Kamal Adwan Hospital is a public governmental hospital affiliated with the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the General Directorate of Military Medical Services, located in the Beit Lahia

Kamal Adwan Hospital

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Gaza - Northwestern Gaza

Al-Shifa Hospital Complex is one of the largest health institutions in the Gaza Strip.

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Martyred Health Workers

Adnan al-Bursh

2024-04-19

Al-Bursh was killed while imprisoned at the Ofer Prison on April 19, 2024. He was subjected to severe torture and his body remains held by Israel.

Adnan al-Bursh

Omar Saleh Omar Farwanah

2023-10-15

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.

Omar Saleh Omar Farwanah

Midhat Mahmoud Khamees Saydam

2023-10-14

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 Mahmoud Khamees Saydam

Hammam Mahmoud Alloh

2023-11-12

He was martyred alongside his father, father-in-law and brother-in-law as a result of a strike of his in-laws' house, where he, his two children and his pregnant wife had fled.

Hammam Mahmoud Alloh

Sereen Mohammed Yousef al-Attar

2023-10-11

She was martyred alongside her daughter and other members of her family as a result of an airstrike targeting her home in Bureij Camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip.

Sereen Mohammed Yousef al-Attar

Ahmad Sa'eed Ahmad al-Maqadmeh

2024-03-22

After he and his mother, Dr. of education and mathematics teacher Dr. Yusra Abdelaziz Maqadmeh, were unreachable for two weeks after the second raid on al-Shifa Medical Complex, the bodies of Dr.

Ahmad Sa'eed Ahmad al-Maqadmeh

Iyad Mohammed al-Rantisi

2024-11-20

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz announced that Dr. Iyad al-Rantisi had died in an interrogation center in the city of Askalan, six days after his abduction.

Iyad Mohammed al-Rantisi

Midhat Mhaisen

2023-11-17

Dr. Midhat Mhaisen was martyred as a result of a strike targeting the hospital, which injured several other doctors.

Midhat Mhaisen

Abducted Health Workers

Huthayfa Mahmoud Abu Atieh

2024-01-01

He was arrested from the Jabalia ambulance station in the northern Gaza Strip during a raid by occupation forces on the center. His fate remains unknown until today.

Huthayfa Mahmoud Abu Atieh

2024-01-01

He was arrested from the Jabalia ambulance station in the northern Gaza Strip during a raid by occupation forces on the center. His fate remains unknown until today.

Huthayfa Mahmoud Abu Atieh

2024-01-01

He was arrested from the Jabalia ambulance station in the northern Gaza Strip during a raid by occupation forces on the center. His fate remains unknown until today.

Huthayfa Mahmoud Abu Atieh

2024-01-01

He was arrested from the Jabalia ambulance station in the northern Gaza Strip during a raid by occupation forces on the center. His fate remains unknown until today.