Healthcare Workers Watch - Palestine

Healthcare Workers Watch - Palestine

Healthcare Workers Watch – Palestine: An initiative to monitor and highlight the Israeli Occupation Forces’ attacks on healthcare workers and healthcare facilities in Palestine.

Yesterday, Israeli Occupation Forces killed the medical laboratory specialist, Bakr Fathi Al-Reqb, in a quadcopter attac...
24/10/2025

Yesterday, Israeli Occupation Forces killed the medical laboratory specialist, Bakr Fathi Al-Reqb, in a quadcopter attack near his home at Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis City.
Bakr's father (a renowned consultant of paediatrics snd neonatology) and brother (a specialist of obstetrics and gyanecology) were similarly killed near their home by 2 seperate drone attacks back in August 2025 and March 2024.

Released Gaza doctor describes torture and medical neglect in detention as Israel continues to incarcerate at least nine...
21/10/2025

Released Gaza doctor describes torture and medical neglect in detention as Israel continues to incarcerate at least ninety-five Palestinian healthcare workers

Dr Ahmed Muhanna, the director of Al-Awda Hospital in Gaza, told Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW) that ‘doctors have been singled out as targets for detention’ and are treated with particular brutality while detained. In a video testimony, Dr Muhanna described how several of the Palestinian detainees died ‘as the […] Israeli jailers looked on’. He added that the detained healthcare workers were prevented from helping other detainees, even those injured during violent interrogations. Dr Muhanna’s own health suffered from the protracted starvation and unsanitary conditions, and he lost almost a third of his body weight while in detention.

As of today, HWW has been able to verify that 95 Palestinian healthcare workers are still being held in Israeli detention. This includes Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya – whose lawyers announced a six-month extension to his incarceration last week – and 79 other healthcare workers from Gaza. A further 5 healthcare workers have died or been killed while in detention, and 5 more are missing, their whereabouts unknown.

The detained Gazan healthcare workers include 31 nurses, 17 doctors and 14 paramedics. In a pattern consistent across the hundreds of healthcare worker detentions verified by HWW, most of the Gazan healthcare workers currently in detention were abducted by the Israeli military from their hospitals or ambulances while they were working. Testimonies collected by HWW and other organisations catalogue the torture and abuse that Palestinians endure in Israeli detention.

Today HWW organised a joint event with Amnesty International UK to call for the immediate release of all the detained healthcare workers in Israeli detention.

Dr Rebecca Inglis, of HWW, says: ‘Israel’s continued detention of nearly one hundred healthcare workers is in clear contravention of International Humanitarian Law. We are gravely concerned for their welfare given the extensive evidence that Palestinian detainees are being tortured while in Israeli detention.’


Pictures by: Raphael Nael

Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed for release from Israeli detention today, while Israel continues to h...
13/10/2025

Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed for release from Israeli detention today, while Israel continues to hold at least 115 more captives

Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed among the Palestinians released from Israeli detention today as part of the exchange deal. While not all releases are confirmed yet, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics. Fourty-four of the healthcare workers listed were abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces from the hospitals where they were working and they have spent between nine and 22 months illegally imprisoned in Israeli detention and torture facilities. Dr Ahmed Mhanna, the Director of Al-Awda Hospital, was not on the list but has also been released today.
While their release is warmly welcomed, there are at least 115 more Gazan healthcare workers who are still being held in Israeli detention. These include at least 20 doctors, of whom 15 are irreplaceable senior specialists. In the past two years, the Israeli Occupation Forces have unlawfully detained over 409 Palestinian healthcare workers from both Gaza and the West Bank. Testimonies from released healthcare workers and other Palestinians describe the horrific conditions inside the detention facilities where brutality and torture are rife . Five healthcare workers have been killed while in detention.
Dr. Muath Alser, the director and co-founder of Healthcare Workers Watch says:
‘Israel’s systematic abduction of healthcare workers is a war crime which has decimated the hospital workforce in Gaza. Unlawfully holding highly trained medical professionals in detention has directly deprived Palestinians of medical care and terrorised the hospital staff left behind. Israel must immediately and unconditionally release all the detained healthcare workers including the bodies of those tortured to death in detention.’

An Israeli drone attacked a number of MSF France healthcare workers on Abu Araif Street in Dier Al-Balah City while they...
02/10/2025

An Israeli drone attacked a number of MSF France healthcare workers on Abu Araif Street in Dier Al-Balah City while they were waiting for a shuttle, physiotherapist Omar Al-Hayek was killed and a number of healthcare workers were injured.

An Israeli special force kidnapped nurse Tasneem Al-Hams from a medical point near Al-Aqsa University in Al-Mawasi, west...
02/10/2025

An Israeli special force kidnapped nurse Tasneem Al-Hams from a medical point near Al-Aqsa University in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis City.
Nurse Tasneem's father, the Director of Abu Yousef Al-Najjar Hospital (destroyed), and the director of field hospitals in Gaza Ministry of Health, Dr Marwan Al-Hams, was kidnapped similarly on July 21, 2025 from a cafeteria opposite to ICRC Field Hospital in Rafah and has been in Israeli detention since then.

Since October 7, 2023, Israeli Occupation Forces have unlawfully detained at least 404 Palestinian healthcare workers, w...
17/07/2025

Since October 7, 2023, Israeli Occupation Forces have unlawfully detained at least 404 Palestinian healthcare workers, who were exposed to systematic torture and inhumane treatment.
As of today, Israeli Occupation Forces arbitrarily detain 28 prominent Gazan physicians, 18 of them are irreplaceable consultants and specialists in essential specialities like General Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Orthopaedics Surgery, Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Cardiology, Paediatrics, and Obstetrics and Gynaecology; depriving the deliberately targeted healthcare system in Gaza of their vital expertise.
Two of the detained senior physicians were reportedly tortured to death in Israeli prisons, while their bodies are still in Israeli detention in an attempt to obliterate the conclusive evidence of a heinous war crime.
Eleven of the currently detained physicians are over 50 years of age with chronic illnesses, which puts their lives at risk due to medical neglect, torture and the inhumane conditions of their detention.
Twenty-one of the currently detained physicians were detained from their hospitals after being besieged for days and invaded by the Israeli military. Three were detained from organised medical convoys to transfer patients through the Israel-designated "safe routes". While 2 were detained from their homes, and the remaining 2 were detained while they were evacuating their homes as per the Israeli orders.
Twenty-one of the currently detained physicians have been detained for more than 400 days without due legal process; three of them have been detained for over 600 days.
Healthcare workers are protected under International Humanitarian Law. Arbitrary detention is a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Torture is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Israel must immediately and unconditionally release all the detained healthcare workers.
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July 16, 2025

Israeli Occupation Forces killed the most experienced Consultant of General Surgery in Gaza Strip, Dr Ahmed Atallah Hame...
13/07/2025

Israeli Occupation Forces killed the most experienced Consultant of General Surgery in Gaza Strip, Dr Ahmed Atallah Hamed Qandil, in a drone attack that targeted him on his way home from Al-Ahli Arab Hospital at Al-Samer Roundabout in Gaza City.

HWW: Israeli Occupation Forces killed or detained all the directors of hospitals in North Gaza. Dr Marwan Al-Sultan is t...
03/07/2025

HWW: Israeli Occupation Forces killed or detained all the directors of hospitals in North Gaza. Dr Marwan Al-Sultan is the 70th healthcare worker to be killed by the Israeli occupation forces in the past 50 days.

Find Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW)'s press release and incident report on the targeted killing of Dr Marwan Al-Sultan. The incident report includes verified information on the attack supported with a collection of verified audio-visual evidence.
https://healthcareworkerswatch.org/press-releases/israeli-airstrike-kills-renowned-cardiologist-in-gaza/

Israeli Occupation Forces killed Dr Marwan Al-Sultan, the Director of The Indonesian Hospital, in an airstrike at Rounda...
02/07/2025

Israeli Occupation Forces killed Dr Marwan Al-Sultan, the Director of The Indonesian Hospital, in an airstrike at Roundabout No 17 West of Gaza City.

08/06/2025

Israeli Occupation Forces killed nine healthcare workers on the first day of Eid, marking it the highest number killed in a single day since the execution of PRCS and civil defence crews in Rafah in March this year.
Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW) confirmed that all nine healthcare workers were murdered in Israeli attacks whilst in their residences, sheltering with their extended families in North Gaza.
At around 3 pm on Friday, June 6th, two separate attacks took place at the Al-Joroun neighbourhood in Jabalia. Airstrikes and artillery shelling targeted the homes of both the Al Batsh and the Khader families, killing a total of 52 civilians, 9 of whom were healthcare professionals.
Names and affiliation of the killed healthcare workers:
Dr. Ayda Khader, PhD: Head of Midwifery Department at the General Administration of Nursing at the Ministry of Health, Gaza.
Dr. Sultan Ramzi Khader: 5th Year medical student at Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University. He also volunteered at several North Gaza Hospitals during this genocide.
Ms. Faten Khader: Nurse at the Indonesian Hospital, North Gaza
Ms. Haneen Marwan Khader: Nurse (diploma), Kamal Adwan Hospital, North Gaza
Mr. Abdelqader Hussien Khader: Senior radiology technician, the Indonesian Hospital, North Gaza.
Ms. Nada Ramzi Khader: 2nd year pharmacy student, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Gaza
Ms. Shahed Abdulqader Khader: 2nd year pharmacy student, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Gaza
Mr. Abdul-Raziq Khader: administrative staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital, North Gaza.
Mr. Deeb Mohammed Al-Batsh: Chief nurse at The Indonesian Hospital, North Gaza.

https://healthcareworkerswatch.org/press-releases/israel-kill-9-healthcare-workers-in-gaza/

Real-time justice and accountability, not a ceasefire, are what deter war criminals.
19/01/2025

Real-time justice and accountability, not a ceasefire, are what deter war criminals.

Healthcare workers in Gaza were undoubtedly Israel’s direct target during this genocide: A dirty mission to complete eve...
17/01/2025

Healthcare workers in Gaza were undoubtedly Israel’s direct target during this genocide: A dirty mission to complete even hours before the alleged ceasefire.

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