About the Platform
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
Occupation
Doctor
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is a Palestinian consultant pediatric doctor. He is currently the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. He is one of the prominent figures in the health sector in the Gaza Strip, having led health workers to provide services to the Gazan population. He was born in Jabalia camp in Gaza City to a family that was exiled from the town of Hamama during the 1948 Nakba. He obtained Palestinian Board certification in pediatric and neonatal medicine.
Workplace
Key events
Reported impact snapshot | Gaza Strip (4 March 2025)
Gaza Humanitarian Response Update | 16 February - 1 March 2025
Humanitarian Situation Update #269 | Gaza Strip
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 - Northwestern Gaza
Al-Shifa Hospital Complex is one of the largest health institutions in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Shifa Medical Complex
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
Khan Yunis - Al-Fukhkhari
Opened in 2000, the European Gaza Hospital is located in al-Fukhari in the Khan Younis governorate.
Gaza European 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dr. Midhat Mhaisen was martyred as a result of a strike targeting the hospital, which injured several other doctors.
Midhat Mhaisen
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
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
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
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
After storming Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, occupation forces arrested Dr. Ahmad al-Kahlout and took him to an unknown location, alongside 70 other health workers.
Ahmad al-Kahlout
After storming Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, occupation forces arrested Dr. Ahmad al-Kahlout and took him to an unknown location, alongside 70 other health workers.
Ahmad al-Kahlout
After storming Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, occupation forces arrested Dr. Ahmad al-Kahlout and took him to an unknown location, alongside 70 other health workers.
Ahmad al-Kahlout
After storming Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, occupation forces arrested Dr. Ahmad al-Kahlout and took him to an unknown location, alongside 70 other health workers.
Ahmad al-Kahlout
Occupation forces stormed al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip and conducted field interrogations with several displaced people, patients, and health workers.
Ahmad Muhanna
Occupation forces stormed al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip and conducted field interrogations with several displaced people, patients, and health workers.
Ahmad Muhanna
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
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