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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

Tareq Jamal Abul Ata
Occupation
Nurse

Key events

Abul Ata's martyrdom

Tareq Abul Ata was martyred along with his five children and his wife Mona as a result of the targeting of his house in Deir al-Balah. No one survived the targeting and their seven bodies were recovered in pieces.

Haytham Tarazi
Occupation
Pharmacist
Shaban Abu Jabal
Occupation
Pharmacist
Mohamed Majed Ahel
Occupation
Laboratory technician

Workplace

Key events

Ahel's martyrdom

He was martyred along with his family as a result of the targeting of their home in Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip.

Rawda Ali Naser
Occupation
Nurse

Key events

Naser's martyrdom

She was martyred after the occupation targeted her home in al-Maghazi camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, alongside a large number of her family members.

Osama Mohammed Atieh Tayeh
Occupation
First responder

Osama sent his family south but refused to evacuate with them, so he can continue working with the Red Crescent to serve his people and country. He spent his final days helping people out of his own pocket. His cousin Mohammed remarked: "This was not strange for Osama – he was a kind person who served others. He loved animals, especially dogs, birds, and chicken."  He lost his father at a young age and helped his mother in raising his siblings and supporting them financially and academically.

Key events

Martyred in an attack on Faluja

As they took a rest from saving people's lives as part of the Red Crescent, Osama Tayeh was killed and his colleague Mohammed Abu Rukbeh was injured in a strike on Faluja at dawn on Monday, December 4.

Fadi Jihad al-Wadia
Occupation
Physiotherapist

Key events

al-Wadia's martyrdom

He was martyred on his way to work at the Doctors Without Borders clinic in the center of the Gaza Strip as a result of his bicycle being directly targeted by an air strike. Five other martyrs rose as a result of the same raid, including children.

Jihad Ammar Khamees Abu Taqiya
Occupation
First responder
Ibrahim Mahmoud Hashem Kashkou
Occupation
Doctor

Workplace

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Key events

Kashkou's martyrdom

Dr. Ibrahim Kashkou was martyred while at work as a result of the occupation’s targeting of the Patient’s Friends Association in Gaza City, north of the Strip.

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Health Facilities
Martyred Health Workers
Abducted Health Workers

Public Records

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
UNRWA Situation Report #136 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Humanitarian Situation Update #217 | Gaza Strip
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Gaza: “The first victim of the war is truth”
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