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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

The West Bank: Israeli Security Forces use UNRWA Health Centre as temporary detention site in southern West Bank in violation of international law 13 February 2025 AMMAN,

13 February 2025

AMMAN,

Israeli Security Forces (ISF) used the UNRWA Arroub Camp Health Centre (near Bethlehem) as a temporary detention site during a search and arrest operation on 12 February. The ISF forcibly entered the health centre and used it for the detention and interrogation of tens of Palestinian residents rounded up in the camp.

“Inflicting harm and denying care” in the West Bank: MSF report on escalation of attacks and obstructions of healthcare

Director of Field Hospitals in Gaza, Dr. Marwan Al-Hamas: The Israeli occupation does not abide by the humanitarian protocol or any other commitments

Director of Field Hospitals in Gaza, Dr. Marwan Al-Hamas:

The Israeli occupation does not abide by the humanitarian protocol or any other commitments.

Only 120 patients left for treatment outside the Strip.

The occupation refuses to allow field hospitals to treat patients and the wounded.

Only 76 aid trucks entered the Strip, including medical supplies that are not priorities.

There are no blankets and winter clothes in light of the cold weather.

We have a list of 35,000 patients in dire need of treatment outside the Strip.

Dr. Khaled al-Serr is released

Humanitarian pauses vital for critical polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip

Around 560 000 children vaccinated in first round of polio campaign in Gaza

Geneva Palais briefing note on the announcement of the second round of polio vaccination in the Gaza Strip

Statement by UNICEF Deputy Executive Director for Humanitarian Action and Supply Operations Ted Chaiban on the near-blockade of aid and access in North Gaza

Dying in waiting: Gaza’s children face lethal delays in medical evacuation

Polio vaccination campaign to resume in northern Gaza

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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

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

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

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

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

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.

Huthayfa Mahmoud Abu Atieh

Ahmad al-Kahlout

2023-12-12

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

Ahmad al-Kahlout

2023-12-12

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

Ahmad al-Kahlout

2023-12-12

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

Ahmad al-Kahlout

2023-12-12

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

Ahmad Muhanna

2023-12-16

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

Ahmad Muhanna

2023-12-16

Occupation forces stormed al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip and conducted field interrogations with several displaced people, patients, and health workers.