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Gaza’s health system is on the brink of total collapse
Under Israel’s bombardment and intensified siege, over half of the Strip’s hospitals have completely shut down, with others unable to offer vital services.
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Ruwaida Kamal Amer
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Ibtisam Mahdi
November 8, 2023
The ‘silent’ war on Gaza’s hospitals
The director of a hospital destroyed during ‘Protective Edge’ has managed to rebuild part of the facility. Now he has about a month’s worth of fuel left to keep its back-up generators running. Without them, the hospital faces another complete shutdown. At the height of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, El Wafa Medical Rehabilitation Hospital was…
By
Samer Badawi
May 7, 2017
Gaza ground invasion: Shedding the pretense of ‘precision’
The real aim was to annihilate anything within marching distance of the border – including, it turns out, a hospital housing elderly patients and international activists there to protect them. When he launched his war on Gaza 10 days ago, Benjamin Netanyahu instructed his military commanders to “take the gloves off.” Yesterday, they put on…
By
Samer Badawi
July 18, 2014
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‘We stay together, or we leave this world together’
From the rehabilitation hospital he heads, Dr. Basman Alashi can see where Gaza ends and Israel begins. If he needed a reminder of just how close the border is, it came early Friday morning, when Israel fired two “warning” rockets at the El Wafa Hospital, stoking fears that its 14 remaining patients – all elderly…
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Samer Badawi
July 12, 2014
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