About the Platform
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
Occupation
Doctor
Omar Farwanah worked as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Islamic University in Gaza and helped establish the "Public Service" and "Friends of the Patient" hospitals in Gaza, after gaining his bachelor's degree in medicine from Cairo University and PhD from Leeds University, a prominent university in the United Kingdom. He trained at the University of West Australia and gained 30 years of experience in fertility medicine and IVF.
Workplace
Key events
She was martyred along with her family.
Amira was martyred along with more than thirty members of her family due to the targeting of the home they had sought refuge in, in Gaza City.
He was martyred along with his two children.
Pharmacist Dr. Issam Abd Rabo was martyred along with his two children, Mohammad (6 years old) and Ismail (9 years old), as a result of the targeting of their home in Rafah, southern Gaza.
Targeting her home and her martyrdom.
Pharmacist Dr. Rola Al-Tawil and her husband, Professor of Entrepreneurship Dr. Yasser Al-Alam, were martyred due to the targeting of their shelter in Gaza City.
Targeting her home and her martyrdom.
Pharmacist Dr. Aya Hijazi and members of her family martyred due to the targeting of their home in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.
He was martyred along with his entire family.
Prof. Dr. Ahmad Al-Dalu martyred along with forty-three family members due to a direct attack on their home in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip.
Martyred by sniper fire
After several months of resilience in northern Gaza, the esteemed pharmacist Dr. Samir Al-Sheikh was martyred by a sniper's bullet in Al-Nasser Street in Gaza City.
Date of martyrdom
Martyr Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim Muhammad Al-Shami (65 years old) from Gaza Governorate, was martyred on 2023-11-02 in Gaza as a result of targeting by the occupation forces.
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
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
Khan Yunis - Al-Fukhkhari
Opened in 2000, the European Gaza Hospital is located in al-Fukhari in the Khan Younis governorate.
Gaza European Hospital
Gaza - Northwestern Gaza
Al-Shifa Hospital Complex is one of the largest health institutions in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Shifa Medical Complex
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
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
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 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
Dr. Midhat Mhaisen was martyred as a result of a strike targeting the hospital, which injured several other doctors.
Midhat Mhaisen
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
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
Dr. Hussam Joudeh was arrested as he attempted to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip through the "safe corridor".
Hussam Mohammed Ibrahim Joudeh
Dr. Hussam Joudeh was arrested as he attempted to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip through the "safe corridor".
Hussam Mohammed Ibrahim Joudeh
Dr. Hussam Joudeh was arrested as he attempted to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip through the "safe corridor".
Hussam Mohammed Ibrahim Joudeh
Dr. Hussam Joudeh was arrested as he attempted to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip through the "safe corridor".
Hussam Mohammed Ibrahim Joudeh
Occupation forces arrested Dr. Wadee' Qasem alongside 70 other health workers in a raid in Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Wadee' Fayez Qasem
Occupation forces arrested Dr. Wadee' Qasem alongside 70 other health workers in a raid in Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Wadee' Fayez Qasem
Nicola Perugini, Neve Gordon
Martine Najem, Abdullatif Husseini, Yehia Abed, Rawane Hamed, Iman Nuwayhid, Rima Afifi, Adnan Hammad, Aisha Jumaan
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)
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