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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

WHO calls for protection of humanitarian space in Gaza following serious incidents in high-risk mission to transfer patients, deliver health supplies

12 December 2023 – Cairo, Geneva, Jerusalem, WHO reiterates its call for the protection of health care and humanitarian assistance in Gaza, following military checkpoint delays and detention of health partners during a mission to transfer critically-ill patients and deliver supplies to a hospital in northern Gaza. During the mission, a patient reportedly died. 

WHO Operational Response Plan - occupied Palestinian territory (october 2023 - January 2024)

The overall aim of this plan to is provide an emergency health response for the population that reduces mortality and morbidity during the current escalation of hostilities. The WHO operational response plan is part of and fully aligned with the overall 90 days Flash Appeal, in particular with the Health Cluster component.

Emergency Situation Reports, Issue 21

Emergency Situation Reports, Issue 20

Emergency Situation Reports, Issue 19

Emergency Situation Reports, Issue 18

Emergency Situation Reports, Issue 17

Emergency Situation Reports, Issue 16

Emergency Situation Reports, Issue 15

Emergency Situation Reports, Issue 14

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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.