El Wafa Hospital

Wounded Palestinians are taken to ambulances after an Israeli airstrike in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, October 29, 2023. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
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.
By Ruwaida Amer and Ibtisam Mahdi November 8, 2023
Basman Alashi, executive director of el-Wafa Hospital in eastern Gaza City, comforts a patient hours after an Israeli projectile struck the hospital's fourth floor Friday evening, demolishing a wall and damaging doors and windows. (photo: Joe Catron)
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
A child stands amid the rubble of the Al Dalu family home, Gaza City, December 3, 2012. Ten members of the Al Dalu family were killed, as well as two neighbors, by an Israeli air strike on their three-story home on November 18, 2012. Four of those killed were children, and four were women.
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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Basman Alashi, executive director of el-Wafa Hospital in eastern Gaza City, comforts a patient hours after an Israeli projectile struck the hospital's fourth floor Friday evening, demolishing a wall and damaging doors and windows. (photo: Joe Catron)
‘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…
By Samer Badawi July 12, 2014
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