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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

Targeting the office of Al-Awda Hospital Director

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The Ministry of Health announced that the Israeli air force directly targeted the office of the director of Al-Awda Hospital, Dr. Muhanna.

And on December 3, 2023 the hospital announced that its clinical capacity was halved as a result of the occupation shelling of buildings adjacent to the hospital, in addition to the martyrdom of three doctors and two paramedics who are directly targeted.

Targeting of reconstructive surgery building at Al-Awda Hospital - Jabalia

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The Ministry of Health announced that occupation attacks on Al-Awda Hospital caused dozens of martyrs and injuries among patients and medical staff. The hospital's reconstructive surgery building, and the third floor of the main building are shelled. One of the doctors who were killed had written on a board in the hospital before his martyrdom: "Whoever stays until the end will tell our story. We did everything we could. Remember us."

Targeting the vicinity of Al-Awda Hospital - Jabalia

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A number of medical staff at the hospital, in addition to a number of Palestinian Red Crescent Society paramedics, were injured during repeated bombings by occupation forces in the vicinity of the hospital, which also caused severe damage to the hospital and to several ambulances.

And on November 12, 2023 the occupation forces bombed the vicinity of the hospital.

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