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
Palestinian Territory - The Israeli army continues to use its tanks to deliberately run over live Palestinian civilians and crush their bodies, in addition to using civilians as human shields, in the ground operations of its crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip that has been ongoing since 7 October 2023.
Palestinian Territory - Video footage released by Al Jazeera TV shows the Israeli army using detained Palestinian civilians as human shields and compelling them to enter dangerous combat zones—evidence of a systematic tactic of the army. There are numerous documented instances of civilians being used as human shields by Israeli forces, which is considered a war crime.
Palestinian Territory - More than 10,000 Palestinian men and women are missing under the rubble in the Gaza Strip, with no way to recover them or properly bury their remains, in a blatant violation of international law amid total international inaction to assist in their retrieval.
Palestinian Territory – The Israeli military is using police dogs to systematically attack Palestinian civilians during military operations in the Gaza Strip. The dogs are also used to intimidate, beat, and sexually assault prisoners and detainees in Israeli detention facilities.
Palestinian Territory - The international community must effectively pressure Israel to open the border crossings and allow sick and injured people to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment. Thousands of sick and injured people face certain death as they are unable to receive treatment in the Strip amid the destruction or travel elsewhere, due to Israel’s systematic targeting of the region’s health sector—which has rendered most of its components inoperable—and the strict Israeli siege.
Palestinian Territory - About 10% of the Gaza Strip’s population has been killed, injured, or is missing due to the 293-day genocide carried out by Israel in the Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023.
Occupation forces bombed and shelled the hospital, taking it out of service.
Wala provides nursing care to people in their homes and in the shelters. She talks to us about her life, her work and the situation in Gaza.
On 22 April 2024, International Network on Explosive Weapons (INEW)* is publishing the Explosive Weapons Monitor 2023. 75 countries and territories have been exposed to explosive violence, says the report.
HI physiotherapist Maria Marelli makes regular visit in Rafah to support our team. She tells us her experience.
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-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.
The Nasser Medical Complex is the second largest hospital in the Gaza Strip after Al-Shifa, with 1,227 medical staff.
Opened in 2000, the European Gaza Hospital is located in al-Fukhari in the Khan Younis governorate.
Al-Shifa Hospital Complex is one of the largest health institutions in the Gaza Strip.
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.
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.
His house was targeted upon his return to visit his family after seven consecutive days of work in al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Dr.
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.
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.
Dr. Midhat Mhaisen was martyred as a result of a strike targeting the hospital, which injured several other doctors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Hussam Joudeh was arrested as he attempted to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip through the "safe corridor".
Dr. Hussam Joudeh was arrested as he attempted to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip through the "safe corridor".
Dr. Hussam Joudeh was arrested as he attempted to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip through the "safe corridor".
Dr. Hussam Joudeh was arrested as he attempted to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip through the "safe corridor".
Occupation forces arrested Dr. Wadee' Qasem alongside 70 other health workers in a raid in Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Occupation forces arrested Dr. Wadee' Qasem alongside 70 other health workers in a raid in Kamal Adwan Hospital.
