Gaza Humanitarian Response Update | 5-18 January
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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
Martyred in a strike on al-Daraj neighborhood
Dr. Abu Ahmed was martyred alongside her mother, brother, and sister in a strike on al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, following the announcement of the ceasefire deal but before it entered into force.
Occupation
Doctor
Dr. Sa'eed Joudeh worked in Al-Awda Hospital and Kamal Adwan Hospital in his final weeks, as he was the only specialist orthopedic surgeon in the northern Gaza Strip during the siege that began in early October 2024 and was ongoing during the latest update to this file in January 2025. A statement by the Ministry of Health reported that Dr. Joudeh had been shot and injured by occupation forces two weeks prior to his martyrdom and returned to work following his injury.
Workplace
Key events
Martyred as he made his way to Al-Awda Hospital
Dr. Sa'eed Joudeh was making his way from Kamal Adwan Hospital to Al-Awda Hospital to treat some cases when he was struck in his head by an Israeli tank, according to the testimony of the driver of the ambulance Dr. Joudeh was martyred in.
Martyred due to injuries sustained during the Kamal Adwan siege
Martyr Hassan al-Dabous had sustained injuries in an explosion of a boobytrapped robot during the occupation forces' siege on Kamal Adwan Hospital at the end of December 2024. He was martyred due to these injuries on January 1, 2025.
Martyred due to the cold
The body of Hakeem Ahmed al-Zaharna was found in his tent in al-Mawasi area in Khan Yunis. The same week, there were severeal reports of children being martyred due to the extreme cold and difficult conditions imposed by occupation forces.
Release of Dr. Mahmoud Abu Shehada
Occupation forces released Dr. Mahmoud Abu Shehada after 11 months of detention without presenting him with any charges.
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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