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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

Mohammed Yousef Mohammed al-Azaiza
Occupation
Nurse

Key events

al-Azaiza's martyrdom

He was martyred alongside his wife and twenty-five members of his family, and a number of family members of his relatives from the Al-Halisi and Abu-Tawhina families, after a strike on their home in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Mohammed Sameer Musallam
Occupation
Nurse
Khaled Jalal Arafat
Occupation
Nurse
Hadeel Atwa
Occupation
Nurse

Key events

Atwa's martyrdom

She was martyred with her child, Zain Atwa, as a result of the targeting of their house in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

Shahd Jbara
Occupation
Nurse

Key events

Jbara's martyrdom

Shahad Jbara, was martyred, accompanied by her husband, Abdullah al-Maala, and her children, as a result of the targeting of their house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Hiba al-Fir'
Occupation
Nurse

Key events

al-Fir's martyrdom

Her home in the city of Rafah was targeted, leading to the martyrdom of her husband, Alaa Al-Subaihi, their children, and a number of their family members. She joined them shortly after, succumbing to her injury.

Mohammed Mahdi
Occupation
Nurse
Hind al-Nuweri
Occupation
Nurse

Key events

al-Nuweri's martyrdom

Hind Al-Nuwairi was martyred alongside her father, her brother, her two-day-old daughter, her uncle, his three daughters, and a number of her family members as a result of the targeting of her uncle’s house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Mustafa al-Najjar
Occupation
Doctor

He remained in the northern Gaza Strip until his martyrdom. He used to share some of his daily life on social media. He was known as the doctor who cut an umbilical cord with a knife and tied it with a wooden clothespin when a woman gave birth in their displacement site.

Key events

al-Najjar's martyrdom

He escaped death four times, but was martyred the fifth time.

Tasnim Hamdan
Occupation
Nurse

Workplace

Key events

Hamdan's martyrdom

She was martyred along with her husband, Firas Al-Sheikh, her infant son, her mother and her sister in the Jabalia camp massacre, north of the Gaza Strip.

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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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