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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

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Gaza and West Bank Interim Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (February 2025)
Starvation and the right to food, with an emphasis on the Palestinian people’s food sovereignty
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.

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Key statistics - April, 10 2025
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Palestinian Ministry of Health / Gaza

Health workforce targeted

  • Health Sector martyers
    1172
  • Martyred doctors
    115
  • Martyred nurses
    290
  • Health workers martyred in detention
    4
  • Health sector detainees
    181
  • Health sector freed detainees
    199
Note: Cumulative figures as confirmed from multiple sources until the stated date
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Institute for Palestine Studies

Hospital Functionality

  • Fully functional hospitals
    0
  • Partially functional hospitals
    22
  • Non-functioning hospitals
    14
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Health Cluster

Medicines and Equipments

  • Medical Disposables at Zero Stock
    59%
  • Essential Medicines at Zero Stock
    37%
  • Cancer Medicines at Zero Stock
    54%
  • Diabetes Patients with Unavailable Medicines
    80,000
  • Hypertension Patients with Unavailable Medicines
    110,000
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Palestinian Ministry of Health / Gaza

Attacks on Health Care

  • Completely destroyed hospitals
    9
  • Partially destroyed hospitals
    25
  • Mass graves in hospitals
    7
  • Ambulances targeted
    115
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Institute for Palestine Studies

Health Impact

  • Deaths due to famine
    52
  • Deaths due to extreme cold
    17
  • Cases of infectious diseases
    2136026
  • Patients needing evacuation abroad
    22000
  • Deaths while waiting to travel for medical treatment
    350
Note: Cumulative figures until the stated date, so each person may suffer from an infectious disease multiple times during the genocide
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Palestinian Ministry of Health / Gaza
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Doctor, injured, prisoner, martyr: Adnan Ahmad Atieh al-Bursh

Al-Bursh was martyred in Ofer Prison on April 19, 2024 after being subjected to severe torture, killing him. His body is still being held.

Artwork by Butros Al Maari
Health Facilities
Martyred Health Workers
Abducted Health Workers

Public Records

World Health Organization(WHO)
World must act with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza
Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
Numbers From the Hell of Gaza
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
IFRC Secretary General in new op-ed: ‘Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave. This must never happen again’