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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

oPt Emergency Situation Update, Issue 28
"Medicide" in Gaza and International Law: Time for Banning the Bombing of Hospitals

Following Hamas's attack of military bases, Israeli kibbutzim, towns, and the Nova Music Festival, killing 1,139 people—including 375 Israeli security personnel and 764 civilians, of whom 36 were children—and taking 240 people as hostages, Israel launched a genocidal campaign. As of September 2024,, the Israeli military has bombed entire neighborhoods and its infantry and tanks have been occupying the Strip, killing over 40,000 Palestinians, of whom more than 15,000 are children (not including an untold number of people lost under the rubble).

The arrest of medical teams while passing through the humanitarian corridor.

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Occupation forces arrested two PRCS volunteers, Tamer Muhammad Hussein Shahin and Hamdan Samer Abu Khater, while they were passing on February 5 within the humanitarian corridor for displaced people at Al-Amal Hospital. The rest of the medical staff and patients remained trapped inside the hospital due to the continued lack of communications and the occupation targeting the hospital's surroundings.

Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)