Checklist of a few of the severest Israeli assaults on the healthcare system in Gaza since October 23, 2023.
An Israeli air raid has left the final functioning hospital in northern Gaza nonoperational, forcing critically sick sufferers onto the streets.
The newest assault on al-Ahli Arab Hospital on Sunday comes as Israel seized a hall south of the war-battered Palestinian territory and mentioned it deliberate to develop its army offensive after breaking apart a ceasefire in March.
Gaza’s Civil Defence mentioned the Israeli air pressure focused a constructing of the hospital within the early hours on Sunday.
The Israeli military and the Shin Guess company claimed, with out offering proof, to have focused a Hamas “command and management advanced” within the hospital.
Gaza’s healthcare services have been focused repeatedly, together with with 2,000-pound bombs made in the USA.
Al-Ahli Hospital is certainly one of no less than 36 hospitals which have been bombed and burned by the Israeli army for the reason that begin of the warfare.
Concentrating on of well being services, medical personnel and sufferers is taken into account a warfare crime underneath the 1949 Geneva Conference.
Right here’s a listing of a few of the main assaults on healthcare in Gaza since October 2023:
October 17, 2023
Tons of of individuals sheltering within the automobile park of al-Ahli Hospital had been killed in an Israeli assault, in accordance with Palestinian well being officers. Within the days main as much as the incident, the hospital director reportedly obtained warnings from Israel. Israel attributed the explosion on the facility to a misfired rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an allegation denied by the armed group.
November 3, 2023
An ambulance convoy was destroyed by an Israeli air assault outdoors al-Shifa Hospital, leading to many Palestinian deaths.
November 21, 2023
An air raid on al-Awda Hospital killed Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr Ahmad al-Sahar of Docs With out Borders (MSF), and one other physician, Ziad al-Tatari.
January 22, 2024
A number of individuals had been killed whereas sheltering about 150 metres (about 500 toes) from the doorway of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Evacuees sheltering within the space suffered as a result of combating and compelled evacuation orders.
March 20, 2024
The Israeli army mentioned it killed 90 people in its raid on al-Shifa Hospital throughout a siege as displaced Palestinians sheltering within the facility described lengthy detentions and abuse. Hamas condemned the “bloody bloodbath” within the hospital and mentioned civilians, sufferers and displaced individuals had been amongst these killed.
March 31, 2024
Many individuals had been killed and injured in an air raid on the yard of Al-Aqsa Hospital, simply outdoors the emergency room the place many internally displaced individuals had been sheltering.
April 1, 2024
A 14-day siege of al-Shifa Hospital, the most important hospital within the enclave, by Israeli forces noticed a whole bunch of individuals killed, together with medical employees, and mass arrests of its employees and others.
October 14, 2024
An Israeli air assault on Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah killed 5 individuals and wounded 65. Tents of displaced individuals caught hearth whereas individuals had been sleeping.
December 28, 2024
The Israeli military arrested Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, after refusing to comply with orders to desert one of many final functioning hospitals in northern Gaza. His arrest got here a day after the army killed roughly 20 Palestinians and apprehended about 240 in a raid contained in the hospital, which was one of many “largest operations” conducted within the territory till that point.
November 2023
Israeli forces laid siege to the Indonesia Hospital in Beit Lahiya for days. The Israeli forces left the hospital in ruins, with charred and decomposing our bodies piling up in corners.
January 4, 2025
The Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza was put out of service following repeated assaults by Israeli forces, in accordance with Gaza’s Ministry of Well being.
March 23, 2025
Israeli forces reportedly shot 15 Palestinian medics, working for the Palestine Purple Crescent Society, lifeless throughout a rescue mission in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood. A video recovered from the cell phone of one of many killed Palestinian medics confirmed Israeli forces’ involvement, igniting widespread outrage.
