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A patient at the European Hospital near Khan Younis after the Israeli army ordered an evacuation of the facility, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 2, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

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

Wounded Palestinian protesters are treated at Al-Awda Hospital after the Israeli navy used live fire and tear gas to block protesters on a 36-vessel flotilla that set out from the northern Gaza Strip, Gaza City, September 24, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Top health expert: WHO committing ‘statistical genocide’ against Palestinians

Richard Horton accuses the World Health Organization of 'deliberately eliminating' Palestinians under occupation from one of its major reports.

By Yonit Mozes June 30, 2022

Palestinians arrive to cross into Gaza at the Erez Crossing between Israel and Gaza on September 3, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

For Gaza patients, uncertainty over Israeli permits is a matter of life and death

Israel's permit regime has become even more arduous for Palestinian patients since the PA halted coordination, with rights groups trying to fill the vacuum.

By Judith Sudilovsky August 4, 2020

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Palestinian health workers give passersby hand sanitizer in Gaza City as a precaution from COVID-19, March 15, 2020. (Ali Ahmed/Flash90)

‘A hotbed for fake news’: How Palestinians are fighting coronavirus misinformation

What does the battle against a coronavirus 'infodemic' look like in an occupied population that distrusts its ruling authorities?

By Henriette Chacar March 16, 2020

Carol Janine takes a video of her son Milan at their home in Bethlehem as he recites his homework, to send it to his teacher on March 11, 2020. (Samar Hazboun)

Coronavirus lockdown turns Bethlehem into a ghost town

A vendor struggles to sell his rotting produce. A mother juggles working from home while homeschooling her children. Stories of how the city is coping under the coronavirus lockdown.

By Samar Hazboun March 13, 2020

The Abu Mutlaq family, with Ghalib holding a photo of his deceased daughter Aya. (Jen Marlowe)

Permission denied: Gaza children struggle to get medical care

With severe medicine shortages and an overstretched health care system in Gaza, children in need of medical treatments can only find them outside the strip. Yet Israel’s convoluted, arbitrary permit process leaves them waiting in pain, often missing life-saving care. By Jen Marlowe GAZA — Noha Saleh called me at seven in the morning on March 18 from Erez,…

By +972 Magazine June 20, 2019

Shada Ardaa, 9, was wounded by an Israeli air strike in Rafah, Gaza strip, An-Najah hospital, Nablus, West Bank, August 5, 2014. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

Medical care for children in Gaza headed for the dark ages

What ails the Gaza Strip is not an incurable disease. We know the antidote that could immediately begin rebuilding the structural determinants of children’s right to life and health. By Priscilla Wathington Children in the Gaza Strip today are more likely to develop health problems than ever before but less likely to access medical care. And…

By +972 Magazine April 5, 2018