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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

Fadi Jihad al-Wadia
Occupation
Physiotherapist

Key events

al-Wadia's martyrdom

He was martyred on his way to work at the Doctors Without Borders clinic in the center of the Gaza Strip as a result of his bicycle being directly targeted by an air strike. Five other martyrs rose as a result of the same raid, including children.

Jihad Ammar Khamees Abu Taqiya
Occupation
First responder
Ibrahim Mahmoud Hashem Kashkou
Occupation
Doctor

Workplace

Key events

Kashkou's martyrdom

Dr. Ibrahim Kashkou was martyred while at work as a result of the occupation’s targeting of the Patient’s Friends Association in Gaza City, north of the Strip.

Nafeth Mohammed Saleh al-Natour
Occupation
First responder
Amina Aleiwa
Occupation
Physiotherapist
Kareem Abu Shariya
Occupation
Physiotherapist
Hasan Abdallah Hamdan
Occupation
Doctor

Dr. Hassan Hamdan was one of the few reconstructive surgery specialists in the Gaza Strip, as he had worked as a doctor and head of the plastic surgery and burns department at the Nasser Medical Complex in the south of the Gaza Strip until his retirement shortly before the start of the genocide.

Workplace

Nasser Medical Complex

Nasser Medical Complex

Key events

Hamdan's martyrdom

Dr. Hassan Hamdan was martyred, along with twelve members of his family, following a direct attack on his home in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Noor Abu Lehya
Occupation
Physiotherapist
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Health Facilities
Martyred Health Workers
Abducted Health Workers

Public Records

Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
condemns the repeated attacks by the occupation forces on Kamal Adwan Hospital
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 48
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #48
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