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 Humanitarian Situation Update is issued by OCHA Occupied Palestinian Territory three times per week. The Gaza Strip is covered on Mondays and Fridays, and the West Bank is covered on Wednesdays. The “Humanitarian Situation Update” is a rebranding of the “Flash Update”. The next Humanitarian Situation Update will be published on 14 June.
Disclaimer: 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 (MoH) 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 MoH in Gaza has recently fully identified out of the higher number of casualties they report.
(New York, 12 June 2024) As the powerful Group of Seven (G7) meets in Italy tomorrow, conflicts in Sudan, Gaza and beyond are raging out of control. War is pushing millions of people to the brink of starvation. Only technicalities prevent famines from being declared, as people are already dying of hunger.
The Humanitarian Situation Update is issued by OCHA Occupied Palestinian Territory three times per week. The Gaza Strip is covered on Mondays and Fridays, and the West Bank is covered on Wednesdays. Due to the upcoming Eid al-Adha holiday, the next update covering both the West Bank and Gaza Strip will be issued on 19 June.
The term "non-functional" has been used repeatedly to describe the status health facilities at various points during the genocide; there are many context-dependent interpretations for this term, which mainly means the inability of a particular health facility to provide the service it is supposed to. For example, a main hospital can be considered "non-functional" if it is unable to provide emergency services even if health workers continue to provide inpatient and outpatient services, due to the interruption of a key service.
التقرير الاحصائي اليومي لعدد الشهداء والجرحى جراء العدوان الاسرائيلي المستمر لليوم ال 254 على قطاع غزة
الاحتلال الاسرائيلي يرتكب 3 مجازر ضد العائلات في قطاع غزة وصل منها للمستشفيات 41 شهيد و 102 اصابة خلال ال 24 ساعة الماضية.
لازال عدد من الضحايا تحت الركام وفي الطرقات لا تستطيع طواقم الاسعاف والدفاع المدني الوصول اليهم
ارتفاع حصيلة العدوان الاسرائيلي الى 37337 شهيد و 85299 اصابة منذ السابع من اكتوبر الماضي.
وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية بغزة.
2024 يونيو 16
Noura Arafat, an MSF intercultural mediator, has lived in Nablus in Palestine’s West Bank all her life. She helps women from her community access the mental health support they need. This support is more crucial than ever since the start of the war in Gaza, which is having a devastating impact on access to basic services, such as medical and mental healthcare in the West Bank.
As someone with six siblings and a very tight-knit community network, family life is very important to Noura Arafat. She enjoys socialising, hiking and picnics with friends and family.
Dubai’s popular supermarket chain Choithrams and 1999 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) team up to bring emergency medical care to thousands of people stuck in the ongoing conflict in West Bank and Gaza. From 20 March until 20 June, 2024, Choithrams will donate towards medical interventions for every purchase of Goodness Foods products marked with a special sticker. The products will be available at 39+ Choithrams stores in Dubai, online on Choithrams.com, and food delivery apps.
NEW YORK, March 25, 2024—After more than five months, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) finally passed a resolution today calling for an immediate ceasefire to the conflict in Gaza during the month of Ramadan, which ends on April 9.
Summary
Six months after the war between Israel and Hamas broke out in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are responding as much as is possible to the enormous needs in the Strip. MSF teams are also responding in the West Bank, where access to healthcare has become increasingly difficult since the events of 7 October 2023.
MSF’s activities in Palestine before October 2023
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-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.
The Nasser Medical Complex is the second largest hospital in the Gaza Strip after Al-Shifa, with 1,227 medical staff.
Opened in 2000, the European Gaza Hospital is located in al-Fukhari in the Khan Younis governorate.
Al-Shifa Hospital Complex is one of the largest health institutions in the Gaza Strip.
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.
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.
His house was targeted upon his return to visit his family after seven consecutive days of work in al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Dr.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Midhat Mhaisen was martyred as a result of a strike targeting the hospital, which injured several other doctors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Hussam Joudeh was arrested as he attempted to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip through the "safe corridor".
Dr. Hussam Joudeh was arrested as he attempted to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip through the "safe corridor".
Dr. Hussam Joudeh was arrested as he attempted to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip through the "safe corridor".
Dr. Hussam Joudeh was arrested as he attempted to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip through the "safe corridor".
Occupation forces arrested Dr. Wadee' Qasem alongside 70 other health workers in a raid in Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Occupation forces arrested Dr. Wadee' Qasem alongside 70 other health workers in a raid in Kamal Adwan Hospital.
