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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

The withdrawal of the Occupation forces from Al-Shifa Medical Complex(2)

Submitted by zaqoutrima on

According to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, about 1,500 Palestinians were killed, injured or missing, half of them women and children, as a result of the Israeli massacre in and around the Shifa compound. The Euro-Med's preliminary estimates indicated that the occupation forces destroyed more than 1,200 housing units in the vicinity of the compound, and at least 22 patients died due to the siege of the compound.

About 400 martyrs were killed in and around Al-Shifa complex after the withdrawal of the occupation forces.

The Israeli forces impose a blockade and curfew on medical teams within the hospital.

Submitted by m.halabi on

The vicinity of Al-Amal Hospital faced intense bombardment from warplanes. The Palestinian Red Crescent teams, along with the Al-Amal Hospital staff, found themselves surrounded within the building, with a curfew enforced in the area around the building and the hospital.

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)