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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

Hussam Ahmad Hamada
Occupation
Doctor

Workplace

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Key events

Killed by a "roof knocking" rocket

Killed by a "roof knocking" rocket as occupation forces attempted to force his family to evacuate their home following five days of siege in the Ansar roundabout neighborhood in Gaza City. He was killed despite multiple attempts by his family to contact the Red Cross to evacuate him as he crawled to try to find a safer place. He was martyred after bleeding to death due to several injuries. His body was found close to his house on January 23, 2024.

Harbi Na'eem Abd al-Na'san
Occupation
Dentist

Key events

Martyred alongside his son

He was killed alongside his son as a result of a strike on their vehicle as they drove home.

Iyad Mohammed al-Rantisi
Occupation
Doctor

Head of the obstetrics department in Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip. He also worked at the obstetrics department in the Patient Friends Hospital. He was arrested alongside Dr. Mohammed Abu Silmiyeh at Netzarim checkpoint during the first siege on al-Shifa hospital. Dr. Iyad al-Rantisi was the second doctor that occupation authorities announced the martyrdom of under detention, following Dr. Adnan al-Bursh.

Workplace

مستشفى كمال عدوان

Kamal Adwan Hospital

Key events

Abduction of Dr. Iyad al-Rantisi

Dr. Iyad al-Rantisi was abducted at Netzarim checkpoint after the occupation army ordered him and others to evacuate Kamal Adwan Hospital to the southern Gaza Strip.

Martyrdom of Dr. Iyad al-Rantisi

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. The announcement came on June 18, 2024, around 7 months following his martyrdom.

Ahmad al-Wahsh
Occupation
Doctor
Amani Abu Hilal
Occupation
Doctor
Ahmad Sa'eed Ahmad al-Maqadmeh
Occupation
Doctor

He was a father to three children. He had been working at al-Shifa Hospital for 40 consecutive days when the siege started and he and his mother were killed by an occupation sniper. He worked alongside plastic surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah during the Great March of Return protests, the 2021 aggression, and the genocide. Dr. Ghassan remarked: "He spent this war going from Shifa hospital to Al Quds Hospital and when he was free he would join me at Al Ahli. Always dedicated, always wanting to learn. He refused to leave the north and kept sending me photos of his surgeries.

Workplace

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Al-Shifa Medical Complex

Key events

Martyrdom date

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 and Dr. Yusra were identified in the yard of the hospital.

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Public Records

Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
condemns the repeated attacks by the occupation forces on Kamal Adwan Hospital
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 48
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #48
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