Attacks on healthcare

At Care for Palestine, we are dedicated to advocating for medical justice in Palestine through Law Assisted Divestment. If we want to have an effective strategy, we need to make the right diagnosis. Healthcare casualties as result of collateral damage will not require the same strategy as over a year of deliberate attacks  resulting in the annihilation of healthcare to support a genocidal intent.

Below, we present documented evidence of ongoing attacks on healthcare in Palestine. This includes key statistics, playlists, official reports, and firsthand testimonies, highlighting the deliberate and systemic nature of these assaults on healthcare and public health.

Israel: #1 in Healthcare Worker Deaths!

According to the numbers of UN and WHO, more healthcare workers have been killed during military operations against Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon, than all global conflicts combined over the past six years. This averages seven healthcare workers killed or severely injured each day—seven war crimes daily for over 460 days...

As of now, the Israeli army is worldwide, by far, the leading cause of violent deaths among healthcare workers.

The allegations about the use of hospitals as military centres remains after 15 months unsubstantiated, vague and broad, and in some cases contradicted by publicly available information or videos.

These statistics paint a stark picture of the health situation in Gaza, underscoring the necessity for immediate action and support.

300

Healthcareworkers still held hostage. Hundreds have been released after weeks to months of abuse and torture. Three medics that we know of have been tortured to death.

75%

of health workers killed in the world, are killed by the Israeli army

12.000

Patients denied urgent medical evacuation

10

Amputation without anesthesia on children a day

1400

Attacks on healthcare facilities

1.84 million

People in Gaza are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) or above

nearly 1300

Health workers killed, over 80% of them killed in the line of duty performing life-saving work

Healthcare in Crisis: The Reality in Gaza

All eyes on Gaza

Through the eyes of healthcare workers

Impactful Testimonials

"40 mission trips, 30 years, ground zero, eartquakes... All of that combines does not equal the level of carnage that I saw against civilians in just my first week in Gaza"

"My daughter... I am amputating her leg without anesthesia. Where is the mercy and where is humanity?"

"At the current rate, it would take five to 10 years to evacuate all these critically ill patients."

"For healthcare workers wearing scrubs and white coats is like wearing a target on their backs."

"The corridors are full of injured people with horrific burns, life-changing injuries and limbs missing that are a direct consequence of this israeli aggression... And then you catch up with the news. And you see it is happening in Lebanon all over again. And once again, no one is stopping it."

"If you’re not going to believe the Palestinians, then you should believe 50 doctors.. every one of us on a daily basis treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head and chest. No kid gets shot twice by a sniper by mistake."

"Practicing medicine has become a crime and the penalty for saving people’s lives has become detention and being tortured to death."

"Every single patient makes me want to scream: THIS IS ENTIRELY MAN-MADE AND COULD BE FIXED BY MAN… every damn patient I’m seeing"

"I am a starved surgeon taking care of starving, injured patients."

"These two boys were shot one hour ago…inside the hospital."

"My children and i drink water that is not suitable for human consumption because there is no other option."

"The children have stopped asking for candy and are now asking for water."

"Dad, people have been blown into pieces! Children, women … why is it like this, Dad?"

"Mom, can we leave Gaza now? I really just want to live."

"Due to the high number of children arriving without any family members, we began to use the acronym WCNSF, meaning ‘wounded child, no surviving family."

"I saw tanks and snipers at the top of the buildings. I was terrified when I saw that the snipers and the tanks were pointing their weapons at us…The bullet hit my colleague Alaa in the head, he sat next to me."

"In front of the main gate, there are many bodies. ..When we sent an ambulance to bring the patients—a few meters away—and they attacked the ambulance. There are injured people around the hospital looking for medical care. We can’t bring them inside. There’s also a sniper who attacked patients."

"All the delivery rooms were full. She knew something wasn't right, that she needed to be admitted—she has had a Cesarean section before. But with no other option, she had to go back to her tent. Her son died. She gave birth to him in the latrines closest to her tent."

"I'm losing hope, and I am saying that the ones who passed away in the [first] few days were very lucky."

"Please keep talking about us. Even is we can’t make it till the end, maybe you can save others."

"Is this the humanity that governements speak of? Why can’t anyone stop Israel? Where is the justice?"

"It is a hypocritical world that pretends to care about vulnerable groups, the displaced but in reality, they classify by nationality to determine if they are going to care or not."

"We just pronounces a 18 year old month girl dead: she had a single gunshot wound to the head."

"Today we have lost a second pathologist, Dr Hussam Hamada, killed after being shot by sniper."

"When I watch the videos of protests from around the world you cannot imagine how much it quits my heart. I feel like I’m not alone in the world anymore."

"The students' voices reawakened our hope in this world… Every word from every single person matters to us...It matters so much, more than you could imagine."