Israel has carried out 793 attacks on Gaza’s health services since October 2023, killing 1,725 health workers and leaving most hospitals and clinics damaged or out of service, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
The military siege that began on October 7, 2023 has pushed the enclave’s medical sector toward collapse.
Restrictions on the entry of medical supplies have deepened the damage. Together, the strikes and the shortages block the Palestinian people’s access to health care at every level, from emergency surgery to routine treatment.
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The figures tell the story of a system under sustained pressure. More than 1,700 health workers have been killed since the Israeli offensive began, and most hospitals and clinics now operate with severe damage or not at all.
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Nasser Hit Seven Times
Munir al-Barsh, Director General of the Gaza Health Ministry, reported that the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, has been struck seven times since 2023. His statement came one day after an attack on the complex’s surgery building killed six people, including a child and a doctor, and wounded nearly 30 others.
The bombing interrupted essential services at one of the enclave’s largest medical facilities. Al-Barsh condemned the strikes as evidence that hospitals, patients and medical staff enjoy no effective protection.
“The Nasser Medical Complex has been targeted seven times before the impassive eyes of the world,” he said, adding that “international protection remains stalled, only on paper.”
The attacks reached maternity, pediatrics, orthopedics, surgery and burns departments. “The Geneva Conventions do not need more advocates; they need countries that demand accountability from the aggressor. Patients do not wait for legal speeches; they wait to survive,” the official stated.
Al-Barsh’s warning points to a wider pattern. Health centers are meant to be shielded under international humanitarian law, yet strikes on Gaza’s hospitals have become routine since the offensive began.
System Near Collapse
World Health Organization data published in April showed that more than 1,800 health facilities had been attacked, damaged or destroyed by that point. Reinhild van de Werdt, the W.H.O. representative, estimated that rebuilding the health system would require about $10 billion over five years.
A ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, raising hopes that the attacks would stop. They did not. Restrictions on aid and strikes have continued, and the Health Ministry reported that Israeli violations of the agreement have caused 1,622 deaths and 5,878 wounded since it began.
The overall toll of the offensive launched on October 7, 2023 stands at more than 74,000 dead and 175,000 wounded. Around 90 percent of the enclave’s infrastructure has been destroyed or damaged, and the health system now operates within that ruin.
Attacks on health facilities violate the Geneva Conventions and other treaties that protect medical centers during conflict. In Gaza, that legal shield has crumbled, leaving patients and the staff who treat them exposed to the next strike. For now, the attacks continue, and the reconstruction the W.H.O. estimates at $10 billion grows more distant with each strike.
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