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Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
A significant number of attacks on healthcare facilities occurred during the Gaza war. During the first week of the war, there were 94 attacks on health care facilities in Israel and Gaza, killing 29 healthcare workers and injuring 24.[1] The attacks on healthcare facilities contributed to a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza.[2] By 30 November, the World Health Organization documented 427 attacks on healthcare in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, resulting in 566 fatalities and 758 injuries.[3] By February 2024, it was reported that "every hospital in Gaza is either damaged, destroyed, or out of service due to lack of fuel."[4] By April, WHO had verified 906 attacks on healthcare in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, and Lebanon.[5] As of June 2024, according to WHO, Israel has attacked 464 health care facilities, killed 727 health care workers, injured 933 health care workers, and damaged or destroyed 113 ambulances [6]
Each side has been accused of committing war crimes in their attacks. CNN quoted the ICRC saying that "hospitals are given special protection under international humanitarian law in a time of war, but if militants store weapons there, or use them as a base of fire, then that protection falls away".[7] Human Rights Watch stated, "The Israeli government has put forward no evidence that would justify stripping hospitals of their special protections."[8][9] In December 2024, Andrew Cayley of the International Criminal Court said that Israeli claims about Hamas use of hospitals are "grossly exaggerated".[10][11]
- ^ "Attacks on health care facilities have increased in past decade, human rights groups say". NBC News. 19 October 2023.
- ^ "Gaza healthcare crisis: urgent action required to address alleged unlawful Israeli attacks". UNOCHA Relief Web. Action on Armed Violence. 14 November 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ "Over 420 attacks on healthcare in occupied Palestinian territories since start of war: WHO". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ Sparrow, Annie; Roth, Kenneth (9 February 2024). "Destroying Gaza's Health Care System Is a War Crime". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ Abdul, Geneva (7 April 2024). "'They're targeting healthcare workers': airstrikes a constant fear for UK doctors in Gaza". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ Vijay Prashad, Remember the Palestinian Doctors Killed by Israel CounterPunch 24 June 2024
- ^ "Israel shows CNN an underground tunnel between a school and hospital in Gaza | CNN". 14 November 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ Sullivan, Helen; Chao-Fong, Léonie; Banfield-Nwachi, Mabel; Livingstone, Helen (17 November 2023). "Human Rights Watch (HRW) have said images released by Israel showing what it said were weapons found inside Gaza's al-Shifa hospital were not sufficient to justify the hospital's status as protected by the laws of war". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- ^ "Israel's attacks on hospitals 'should be investigated as war crimes': HRW". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ Davies, Harry (11 December 2024). "Claims of Hamas fighters in Gaza hospitals may have been exaggerated, says senior ICC prosecutor" – via The Guardian.
- ^ "Israel's 'Hamas in hospitals' claims 'grossly exaggerated': ICC".
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