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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

Statistics on the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip (07 October - 03 February 2024)
Four months into Gaza genocide: Israel’s horrific targeting of civilians, purposeful destruction continues

Geneva - Approximately 110,000 Palestinians are reported killed, missing, and injured, leaving many suffering long-term disabilities, four months into Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement issued Sunday.

 

New testimonies detail torture and abuse of Gazan detainees in Israeli jails, detention centres

Geneva – New testimonies received by Euro-Med Human Right Monitor from recently-released Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip, including women and children, detail their subjection to torture and ill-treatment by Israeli authorities. The rights organisation cited revelations of crimes such as forced nudity, sexual harassment, and threats of sexual torture, calling for urgent international action to stop these violations.

 

Israel attacks remaining medical infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, further reducing Palestinians’ chances of survival

Geneva - As it enters the fifth month of its genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, Israel has not stopped targeting what is left of the health system there and is sabotaging any chance it may have to save Palestinian lives by firing and bombarding hospitals, ambulances, and medical teams, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement issued Friday.

 

Fifteen days after ICJ ruling, Israel’s genocide in Gaza Strip continues on the same scale

Geneva - Fifteen days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to take all possible measures to prevent the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and to take immediate steps to ensure humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians there, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor asserted that the Israeli army has maintained its rate of killing civilians, depriving them of their most basic human rights, besieging them, and starving them.

 

Gaza: Israel intensifies deliberate killing and sniper attacks against Palestinian civilians

Geneva - The Israeli army has escalated its premeditated murders, extrajudicial executions and judicial killings against Palestinian civilians through direct targeting with snipers and drones in various regions of the Gaza Strip, as part of its genocidal war, ongoing since 7 October, said Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

 

Gaza: Initial findings show Israeli army purposefully kills a child, uses an American-made missile to target her rescue crew

Geneva - According to preliminary investigations conducted by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and testimonies it has collected, a five-year-old Palestinian girl, Hind Rajab, and her relatives were killed in a planned execution carried out by the Israeli army in Gaza City in broad daylight.

 

“They brought Israeli civilians to watch our nude torture”: IDF torture of Palestinian prisoners is turned into entertainment for Israeli viewers

Geneva - The Israeli army introduced groups of Israeli civilians into detention centres and prisons holding Palestinian prisoners and detainees from the Gaza Strip, permitting the civilians to witness torture crimes against the detainees, with many allowed to film them on their own phones.

 

Gaza: Israel targets Palestinian civilians trying to access communications and internet services

Gaza: Israel targets Palestinian civilians trying to access communications and internet services


 

Statement of UN experts on Israel’s violations against Palestinian women, girls is welcomed by Euro-Med Monitor

Geneva - The recent statement by United Nations experts on Israel’s flagrant human rights violations of Palestinian women and girls in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank was welcomed by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. The rights group emphasised the significance of the statement given the Israeli genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023.

 

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)