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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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Fifth-year resident doctor in the orthopedic department in al-Shifa medical complex, where he worked throughout the genocide war until his martyrdom. He also worked in the specialist clinics in al-Ahli hospital. Dr. Fadel Naim mourned him by writing "Dr. Hammam al-Deeb, who had a smile that southed the heart, never hestitated to help anyone who asked, appreciated his colleagues and teachers, stood tall like the mountains, stood up for justice and did not hestitate to offer all he had in defense of it."

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He had been recently appointed to work as an anesthesiologist in a hospital in Dortmund in Germany, where he had been living with his family in recent years. He was also a member of a Palestinian medical collective there. He went to visit his family shortly before the start of the genocide, and was martyred alongside them in a strike on their home.

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Head of the pediatrics department in Mohamed al-Durra Hospital in Gaza City. In addition to his medical degree, he held a diploma in anesthetics and intensive care from the Islamic University in Gaza from 2016.

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Gained first place in the Palestinian, Jordanian and Arab Board exams in nephrology. He was the only nephrologist in the Strip, working in al-Aqsa martyrs hospital and al-Shifa medical complex at the same time. In addition, he was a lecturer in the medical schools of both al-Azhar University and the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip.

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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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Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)