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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

Gaza Humanitarian Response Update | 2 - 15 March 2025
Reported impact snapshot | Gaza Strip (18 March 2025)
Statement on Gaza by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
Note to Correspondents: on Gaza
Humanitarian Situation Update #275 | Gaza Strip
Reported impact snapshot | Gaza Strip (25 March 2025)
Dr. Abdullah Ghali Recounts Healthcare Under Siege During Gaza Mission Last Year

Content warning: graphic image used.

In July of 2024, Palestine Square sat down with Dr. Abdullah Ghali, a Palestinian doctor based in Houston, TX who visited Gaza in April of 2024 alongside a contingent of medical staff from FAJR Scientific. While in Gaza, Dr.

oPt Emergency Situation Update Issue 57, 7 Oct 2023 - 14 Mar 2025
The rights of the Palestinians continue to be violated

Since the war began, people in Gaza have undergone systematic dehumanization.

Palestinians do matter, including those in Gaza.

Their rights, lives, and futures matter.

Human rights cannot be applied selectively.

As the UN Secretary-General said: “Peace requires ending the occupation, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian State, with Gaza as an integral part; a viable and sovereign Palestinian State side-by-side with Israel”.

The West Bank is undergoing an alarming spill over of the Gaza war

From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)

The West Bank is undergoing an alarming spill over of the Gaza war.

More than 50 people, including children, have been reported killed since the Israeli Forces’ operation started 5 weeks ago.

Destruction of public infrastructure, bulldozing roads and access restrictions are common place.

People’s lives have been turned upside down, bringing back traumas and loss.

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Key statistics – April, 20 2025
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Palestinian Ministry of Health / Gaza

Health workforce targeted

  • Health Sector martyers
    1173
  • Martyred doctors
    115
  • Martyred nurses
    291
  • Health workers martyred in detention
    4
  • Health sector detainees
    181
  • Health sector freed detainees
    199
Note: Cumulative figures as confirmed from multiple sources until the stated date
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Institute for Palestine Studies

Hospital Functionality

  • Fully functional hospitals
    0
  • Partially functional hospitals
    23
  • Non-functioning hospitals
    13
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Health Cluster

Medicines and Equipments

  • Medical Disposables at Zero Stock
    59%
  • Essential Medicines at Zero Stock
    37%
  • Cancer Medicines at Zero Stock
    54%
  • Diabetes Patients with Unavailable Medicines
    80,000
  • Hypertension Patients with Unavailable Medicines
    110,000
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Palestinian Ministry of Health / Gaza

Attacks on Health Care

  • Completely destroyed hospitals
    9
  • Partially destroyed hospitals
    25
  • Mass graves in hospitals
    7
  • Ambulances targeted
    115
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Institute for Palestine Studies

Health Impact

  • Deaths due to famine
    52
  • Deaths due to extreme cold
    17
  • Cases of infectious diseases
    2136026
  • Patients needing evacuation abroad
    22000
  • Deaths while waiting to travel for medical treatment
    350
Note: Cumulative figures until the stated date, so each person may suffer from an infectious disease multiple times during the genocide
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Palestinian Ministry of Health / Gaza
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Doctor, injured, prisoner, martyr: Adnan Ahmad Atieh al-Bursh

Al-Bursh was martyred in Ofer Prison on April 19, 2024 after being subjected to severe torture, killing him. His body is still being held.

Artwork by Butros Al Maari
Health Facilities
Martyred Health Workers
Abducted Health Workers

Public Records

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Humanitarian Situation Update #278 | Gaza Strip
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Reported impact snapshot | Gaza Strip (8 April 2025)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
The Secretary-General – remarks to the press on Gaza