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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 Shbeir
Occupation
Medical scientists
Salah al-Din Mohammed Awad Zanoun
Occupation
Medical scientists
Ameed Awni Fawzi Mushtaha
Occupation
Medical scientists
Rawan Ramzi Hamoudeh
Occupation
Nutritionist

Key events

Bombing of her home and her martyrdom with her family

Rawan Hammoudeh was martyred alongside her father Ramzi Hammoudeh, her mother, uncle, and his wife as a result of a strike on the Masri family home in Rafah.

Ameed Mohammed Sa'eed Saqallah (Khorshid)
Occupation
Optometrist

The brothers Omar, Sa'eed, and Ameed Khorshid (Saqallah) are optometrists who own the biggest optometry center in Gaza. The name of this family has become tied to this profession for decades and they are highly admired for their work, kindness and humility. There iw noone left from the Khorshid family to sustain the legacy of this optometry company, which has been known to everyone in Gaza for years.

Key events

The bombing of his house and his martyrdom along with his family members.

He was martyred along with his entire family, including his brothers, their wives, children, and grandchildren, after their family home in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza was bombed. The family had refused to evacuate and move south.

Mohammed Mohammed Sa'eed Saqallah (Khorshid)
Occupation
Optometrist

The brothers Omar, Sa'eed, and Ameed Khorshid (Saqallah) are optometrists who own the biggest optometry center in Gaza. The name of this family has become tied to this profession for decades and they are highly admired for their work, kindness and humility. There iw noone left from the Khorshid family to sustain the legacy of this optometry company, which has been known to everyone in Gaza for years.

Key events

The bombing of his house and his martyrdom along with his family members.

He was martyred along with his entire family, including his brothers, their wives, children, and grandchildren, after their family home in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza was bombed. The family had refused to evacuate and move south.

Sa'eed Mohammed Sa'eed Saqallah (Khorshid)
Occupation
Optometrist

The brothers Omar, Sa'eed, and Ameed Khorshid (Saqallah) are optometrists who own the biggest optometry center in Gaza. The name of this family has become tied to this profession for decades and they are highly admired for their work, kindness and humility. There is noone left from the Khorshid family to sustain the legacy of this optometry company, which has been known to everyone in Gaza for years.

Key events

The bombing of his house and his martyrdom along with his family members.

He was martyred alongside his entire family – his brothers and their wives, children, and granchildren, in an attack on the family home in Tell al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza, after teh family refused to evacuate the house and flee to the south.

Reem Abu Labada
Occupation
Physiotherapist

Key events

Martyred along with her family members.

She and all her family members were martyred in an airstrike on their home in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.

Hisham Ahmad Mohammed Abul Sabah
Occupation
Administrator
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Health Facilities
Martyred Health Workers
Abducted Health Workers

Public Records

Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
Repercussions of Israeli Aggression on Health Sector (7/10/2023 - 31/8/2024)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Humanitarian Situation Update #217 | Gaza Strip
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
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