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India Today
22-05-2025
- Health
- India Today
In numbers: How Israeli strikes brought Gaza's healthcare to the brink
'We've seen this too many times — it must not be allowed to happen again.' This anguished call came from the World Health Organisation chief on May 20 in a statement about the collapsing medical infrastructure in in Gaza have nowhere to go, not even to hospitals, which have been systemically attacked by Israel. These strikes have weakened Gaza's already fragile health system, pushing it to the verge of total Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director General of the WHO, said on May 15 that the Gaza European Hospital, the last hospital providing 'vital services including neurosurgery, cardiac care, and cancer treatment — all unavailable elsewhere in Gaza', was no longer functional after a May 13 #Gaza Hospital is no longer functional after an attack on 13 May left it severely damaged and being there yesterday. @WHO reached the hospital again today to relocate one international Emergency Medical Team—who continued working through the Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) May 15, 2025HEALTH CRISIS Attacks were launched on the Al-Ahli Hospital on April 13, the Nasser Hospital on May 13 and 19, the European Gaza Hospital on May 13, and the Al-Awda Hospital on May to the WHO, between October 7, 2023 and May 7 this year, Israel launched a total of 686 attacks in Gaza that affected 122 healthcare facilities and 33 hospitals. About 180 ambulances were also destroyed. Right now, in Rafah, there are no functioning primary and secondary healthcare services. Over this period, more than 1,400 doctors, nurses and other medical staff were also WHO reported that in northern Gaza, the Indonesian, Kamal Adwan, and Al Awda hospitals, along with three primary care centres and four medical points, were within the evacuation zone announced on May 20. Another two hospitals, four primary care centres, and six medical points lie within 1,000 metres of NUMBERSThe WHO's Health Resources and Services Availability Monitoring System evaluated 99 health service delivery units (HSDUs) in the Gaza Strip. These include hospitals, primary health centres, mobile clinics, and field two HSDUs are fully functional, while 47 are partially functional, 32 are non-functional, and 18 have been fully destroyedOnly 26 medical buildings remain intact, 54 have been partially damaged, and 18 have been fully destroyedOnly 22 HSDUs have fully intact equipment, 44 have partially damaged equipment, and 33 have been destroyed completelyBASIC AMENITIES LACKINGOut of the 49 HSDUs that are fully or partially functioning, only six per cent have fully available intensive care unit beds; in 18 per cent, they are partially available. It's the same with maternity beds: only eight per cent have fully available maternity beds, while 16 per cent have partial availability. Only 16 per cent of them have emergency room supply in hospitals and medical units is essential. But only 29 per cent of health units have a fully available power connection, while 65 per cent have a partially available power connection. Cold chains are also crucial as they ensure the proper storage of vaccines. Only 35 per cent of medical units in Gaza have a properly available cold chain, 33 per cent have partially available cold chains, while 32 per cent have is zero availability of magnetic resonance imaging or MRI in any government hospital, field hospital, or medical unit in Gaza. Only five per cent have burn treatment services, 32 per cent have basic x-ray facilities, 25 per cent have computed tomography or CT scan services, and only 15 per cent have an available blood Israeli blockade of aid has also led to depletion of essential medical supplies, lack of food and water, and rationing of supplementary food for stand on this strikeIsrael has justified its actions by saying that Hamas uses hospitals for military activities such as weapon storage. Israeli officials said the May 13 attack on the Gaza European Hospital targeted Hamas leaders, who they suspected were hiding in underground Watch
Barnama
16-05-2025
- Health
- Barnama
Israeli Strike Puts Gaza's Last Cancer Hospital Out of Service
LONDON, May 16 (Bernama-Anadolu) -- The Gaza European Hospital, the last facility providing cancer treatment in the Gaza Strip, is now out of service after an Israeli strike, international medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday, Anadolu Ajansi (AA) reported. In a statement, MSF said the hospital, located in Khan Younis, ceased operations after being struck by Israeli forces on 13 May. 'This was one of the last remaining lifelines in Gaza's shattered healthcare system,' MSF wrote on social media platform X, noting that the MSF-supported Nasser Hospital is now the only functioning public hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
NDTV
16-05-2025
- Health
- NDTV
80 People Killed In Gaza As Israel Intensifies Bombardment
Gaza City: At least 80 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others wounded in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, said Palestinian medical sources. The Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis reported that 54 people, including women and children, were killed in strikes on the southern city, according to a press statement on Thursday. According to Gaza-based health authorities, the Gaza European Hospital, the only hospital providing medical follow-up care to cancer patients in the enclave, was out of service due to recent Israeli attacks, Xinhua news agency reported. The Israeli attacks "caused significant damage to infrastructure, such as sewage lines, damage to internal departments, and destruction of roads leading to the hospital," the authorities said in a press statement. Meanwhile, medical sources told Xinhua news agency that 26 others were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City and other areas in northern Gaza. The airstrikes came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Tuesday that the Israeli military would enter Gaza "with full force" in the coming days to press forward with efforts to defeat Hamas. Israel resumed large-scale military operations in Gaza on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire. Since then, 2,876 Palestinians have been killed and more than 7,800 injured, according to health officials in Gaza. The total Palestinian death count since the war erupted on October 7, 2023, has reached 53,010, the officials said on Thursday. Israel is using a policy of "reducing space and emptying populated areas to pressure citizens," Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defence in Gaza, told Xinhua on Thursday. He also claimed that thousands of people spent the night in the streets amid threats of strikes on schools and shelters housing the displaced, adding that Israeli forces were obstructing emergency teams from reaching victims and systematically destroying Civil Defence infrastructure. Since October 2023, the Israeli Army has pursued a brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip, killing more than 53,000 Palestinians so far, most of them women and children. A US-backed humanitarian organisation will start work in Gaza by the end of May under an aid distribution plan, but has asked Israel to let the United Nations and others resume deliveries to Palestinians now until it is set up. No humanitarian assistance has been delivered to Gaza since March 2, and a global hunger monitor has warned that half a million people face starvation in Gaza.
Mada
14-05-2025
- Health
- Mada
Patients evacuated from Gaza's European Hospital after Israeli firebelt tears through grounds, killing 28
Israel launched a series of airstrikes targeting the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Younis on Wednesday evening, extensively damaging the facility, killing 28 people and forcing authorities to evacuate patients, medics and eyewitnesses told Mada Masr. Amr Tabash was in the courtyard of the hospital after 6 pm, when the bombs began to drop in the perimeter. The force of the intense bombardment threw him and several others meters into the air, he told Mada Masr, describing hearing multiple explosions in quick succession around the hospital. Another eyewitness to the firebelt, Salem al-Amour, said that the attack encircled almost the entire perimeter of the hospital. Images published by Gaza's Health Ministry showed wide craters extending deep into the grounds and extensive damage to the interior of the wards. The force of the explosions was severe and shrapnel flew everywhere, ripping through some of the hospital's departments, Tabash said. The impact caused severe injuries to already sick and wounded patients. Amour said that the hospital was crowded with civilians at the time of the attack, many of whom were injured and killed. 'Bodies were everywhere,' he said. 'Limbs were torn apart here and there inside the hospital, while shrapnel flew overhead, and many civilians outside the hospital were injured.' Soldiers in Israeli helicopters also fired heavily at anyone trying to enter the hospital to rescue the wounded in the wake of the attack, said Amour, an account echoed by Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza, who told Mada Masr that members of the agency were injured by Israeli fire at the hospital after arriving at the scene. The civil defense crews were able to retrieve 28 bodies from inside the hospital and from the surrounding homes that were also hit by the strikes, Basal said. Both Amour and Basal described severe damage to people's homes near the hospital. 'The home of the Afghany family, who live near the hospital, was crowded with people and they were massacred as a result of the firebelt,' said Basal. The Israeli military claimed it had targeted underground facilities belonging to Hamas using 'precise' munitions. Media outlets cited security sources saying that Mohamed Sinwar, military commander of the Qassam Brigades, was the target of the attack. Marwan al-Homs, the director of field hospitals in Gaza, told Mada Masr that the Gaza European Hospital declared a maximum emergency and ceased operations after the attack. The injured were transferred to the Nasser Medical Complex, also in Khan Younis. The Gaza European Hospital was targeted just hours after Israel targeted the burns unit at the Nasser Medical Complex, killing journalist Hassan Eslaih and another patient receiving treatment and causing extensive damage to the ward. 'These attacks are a complete crime,' said Homs.
Saba Yemen
14-05-2025
- Health
- Saba Yemen
Israeli enemy kills 34 Palestinians in European Hospital massacre in southern Gaza
Gaza – Saba: The Israeli enemy army committed a horrific massacre, killing 34 Palestinians and wounding dozens more, after launching a series of violent airstrikes targeting the Gaza European Hospital and its surroundings in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. The Ministry of Health and Civil Defense in Gaza said in two separate statements, according to Anadolu Agency, that the Israeli bombing resulted in the deaths of 34 Palestinians, including six in the hospital and 28 others in an adjacent home belonging to the Afghani family, as a result of the fire belts that targeted the hospital and its surroundings. The Ministry of Health explained that "the direct bombing of the hospital grounds led to the deaths of six Palestinians and the wounding of more than 40 with various injuries." For his part, Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said that "the raids resulted in the deaths of 28 people in the Afghani home near the hospital, in addition to the injury of two Civil Defense personnel while attempting evacuation." In turn, the Israeli army acknowledged bombing the hospital, claiming it targeted "Hamas operatives inside a command and control complex built underneath the hospital." The Hebrew website Walla quoted three informed Israeli sources as saying that the attack "was an assassination attempt against Mohammed Sinwar." The sources indicated that "the results of the attack are still unknown." Earlier, the Israeli army killed a Palestinian man and his wife in a bombing that targeted a tent housing displaced persons west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, according to a medical source. The same source reported that three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted the Shuja'iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City, while another Palestinian succumbed to his wounds in a bombing earlier today on an area west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. At dawn on Tuesday, a medical source said that three Palestinians from the same family were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a tent in the Al-Amoudi area west of the town of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. The source said that young man Mohammed al-Ja'bari died of injuries he sustained in a previous Israeli bombardment of the Shuja'iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli artillery repeatedly shelled the al-Tuffah and Shuja'iyya neighborhoods east of Gaza City, amid heavy army gunfire. The witnesses confirmed that the Israeli army continued to demolish residential buildings in the eastern areas of Gaza City. In the Central Governorate, Al-Awda Ahli Hospital said in a statement that a Palestinian was killed and two others were injured as a result of Israeli drone fire targeting a gathering of citizens northwest of the Nuseirat refugee camp. In another statement, the hospital explained that a Palestinian was injured as a result of an Israeli drone firing a bomb at a gathering of citizens in the Shuhada Roundabout area in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. In the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, the Ministry of Health said in a statement Tuesday morning that two Palestinians, one of whom was a journalist, were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that directly targeted the surgical building at the Nasser Medical Complex. The Government Media Office in Gaza previously stated in a statement that the enemy "assassinated journalist Hassan Aslih by targeting him in a bombing of the Nasser Medical Complex while he was receiving treatment," bringing the number of journalist martyrs to 215. The Ministry of Interior in Gaza also announced in a statement the martyrdom of "Ahmed Al-Qudra, the director of the Anti-Narcotics Police and a member of the Gaza Police Command Council," in a bombing of the city of Khan Yunis at dawn. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli artillery shelled the "Al-Sanati" area east of the town of Abasan Al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis. Israeli warplanes also launched four raids on the town of Abasan Al-Kabira and several raids on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Witnesses indicated that the Israeli army continues to demolish residential buildings in the city of Rafah. The Zionist enemy continues to commit a widespread crime of genocide against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, including killing, destruction, starvation, and forced displacement, ignoring all international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it. This US-backed war left more than 172,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
