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‘I operated on more children in Gaza in one night than I do in the U.S. in a year’
American surgeon Feroze Sidhwa has volunteered in war zones around the world. But nothing prepared him for Israel bombing his hospital in Gaza.
By
Michal Feldon
April 9, 2025
In Gaza’s devastated hospitals, treatable patients face ‘slow, quiet death’
Bleeding out from moderate shrapnel wounds. Dying from illnesses doctors don’t have time to treat. Going blind waiting for medical evacuation abroad. These are the manifold victims of Israel's war on Gaza's health system.
By
Mahmoud Mushtaha
April 3, 2025
The deadly cost of Israel’s restrictions on foreign doctors in Gaza
Denied entry or medical supplies after Israel's takeover of Rafah, volunteer physicians describe a policy designed to prevent their life-saving work.
By
Patricia Martinez Sastre
January 30, 2025
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Albina Abu Safiya: ‘The Israeli army deliberately targeted my husband’
Following Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s arrest in northern Gaza, his wife describes her fears over the hospital director's fate and the tragedy of their son's killing.
By
Ruwaida Amer
January 17, 2025
‘I will stay inside my hospital until the last moment’
The Israeli army killed his son and arrested his colleagues in Kamal Adwan Hospital, but director Hussam Abu Safiya refuses to abandon his patients.
By
Ruwaida Amer
November 5, 2024
A war on hospitals is a war on civilians: Israel’s fatal blow to health in Gaza
Two documents outline the scale of destruction upon Gaza’s health system and medical workers, threatening the very possibility of sustaining life in the Strip.
By
Liat Kozma
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Lee Mordechai
November 1, 2024
Israel’s paradoxical crusade against UNRWA
Israeli officials are relying on UNRWA to prevent a polio epidemic — while the Knesset advances laws to expel the agency.
By
Jonathan Adler
October 10, 2024
For Gazans with disabilities, Israel’s genocide shows no mercy
Feeling but not hearing the bombs, displaced without their specialized equipment, mauled by army dogs: this is how Palestinians with physical and cognitive impairments are surviving and dying amid Israel’s onslaught.
By
Ibtisam Mahdi
September 27, 2024
‘The polio vaccine is effective, but delivering it requires a ceasefire’
With Palestinians in Gaza fearing a polio outbreak, health workers warn Israel’s ongoing military offensive will severely hamper efforts to counter it.
By
Ruwaida Amer
August 27, 2024
‘We’re all at risk of being targeted’: Doctors evacuate Rafah’s last hospitals
Almost no facilities remain to treat the wounded in Gaza's southernmost city, as doctors fear a repeat of Israel's attacks on hospitals across the Strip.
By
Ruwaida Amer
June 5, 2024
At overburdened Gaza hospital, Palestinians try to instill Ramadan spirit
Displaced families have decorated Gaza’s European Hospital to mark the holy month, though the war’s devastating impact makes it hard to be festive.
By
Ruwaida Amer
March 27, 2024
Gaza’s health crisis ‘catastrophic,’ say Palestinian experts
Untreated sewage and overcrowding are leading to the rapid spread of disease, while three-quarters of the Strip’s hospitals have stopped functioning.
By
Ibtisam Mahdi
December 20, 2023
‘Diseases are spreading rapidly’: In Jabalia camp, thousands shelter in one school
Refusing Israel's orders to evacuate northern Gaza, Palestinians are filling every available space amid growing threats of airstrikes and service collapse.
By
Ibrahim Mohammad
December 11, 2023
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