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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 - reported impact | Day 166
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

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.

Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)