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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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Dr. Ra'ed was martyred alongside his entire family following a several-day siege on al-Mahdi materntiy hospital in Gaza City, after the hospital was struck with the doctors and their families inside.

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"You and your arabness have failed us" – these were the last words of Dr. Basel Mahdi on a post on his Facebook profile hours before his martyrdom. These words came after pleas for days to evacuate him and his family after they were besieged in al-Mahdi maternity hospital before it was bombed and most people in it were killed, among them Dr. Basel and his entire family.

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Dr. Abdallah al-Helou was at the start of his medical career when he was martyred; he had passed his licensing exam shortly before the war.

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Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)