In 1st Year of Genocide Israel Kills 146 Doctors

The Gaza Health Ministry announced, Sunday the Israeli occupation army killed 146 doctors of different specialties in its one-year of genocide in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu news agency reported.

In a statement, the ministry highlighted that in the past year the health system has been devastated whilst stressing  most medical supplies and medications have been exhausted. 

It emphasized that 83% of medical supplies and 60% of medications are unavailable in hospitals and health centers.

The ministry revealed there are 25,000 patients and injured Palestinians who require medical attention outside Gaza.

Targeting Medical Staff

In a report cited by the Quds News Network published 17 September, the Health Ministry said Israeli occupation forces killed 1,151 Palestinian health workers since 7 October, 2023.

A total of 986 were named in the new report, while personal data for the remaining 165 was still being verified.

The ministry said the delay in the verification process was due to Israeli authorities withholding the victims’ bodies or their remains being buried under rubble.

At least 165 of those killed were doctors, 260 nurses, 300 management and support personnel, 184 health associate professionals, 76 pharmacists, and 12 other health workers.

“The Palestinian sector has been subjected to a systematic attack by the occupation forces that has affected all its components,” the ministry noted.

Health facilities were the target of direct and repeated Israeli raids and air strikes, it added, which has crippled the health system and left hundreds of thousands of war victims facing “imminent death”.

More than 300 health workers have also been arrested by Israeli forces.

Gaza Genocide Continues

Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza. 

Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health,  41,870 Palestinians have been killed, and 97,166 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.

Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip. 

Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’. 

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/live-blog-one-year-of-genocide-massacres-in-central-gaza-rocket-barrages-towards-israel-day-367/embed/#?secret=xh5pqP3eY2#?secret=MkAHUcDdzk Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children. 

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety according to the Palestine Chronicle.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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The Palestinian Civil Defense teams recovered the remains of 40 martyrs from the Sheikh Radwan Cemetery in Gaza City on Tuesday. Parts of the cemetery were bulldozed and desecrated by Israeli occupation forces during their ground incursions into the area over the last two years.

Civil Defense personnel pointed out the remains of the martyrs were then transferred from the cemetery’s eastern side to forensic teams, in preparation for completing a full medical examination to identify the victims, a long procedure by itself. Representatives from the Ministry of Religious Endowments and Affairs were also present in the recovery of the 40 martyrs.

A Civil Defense statement explained the bulldozing of the cemetery resulted in the remains being unearthed and mixed together which necessitated in their transfer to the relevant authorities for examination and identification.

Director of Public Relations of Civil Defense Abdullah al-Majdalawi, confirmed the teams now face significant challenges to identify the recovered remains. He explained most of what was found consisted of decomposed body parts and skeletons of martyrs, including children and the elderly.

Al-Majdalawi pointed out the excavation and bulldozing operations by the Israelis obliterated the features of many graves and mixed the body remains, meaning great heartache for the families seeking to learn the fate of their loved ones and document their identities. “How can names be reduced to numbers” he wondered while highlighting the scale of the human tragedy caused by these practices.

These developments come at a time when the burial crisis in the Gaza Strip is worsening. Since the outbreak of the war, residents have been forced to establish mass graves and makeshift cemeteries in public squares, roads, and around hospitals, including in Al-Shifa, Kamal Adwan, and the Baptist Hospital, due to the siege and the difficulty of accessing the main cemeteries.

Gaza City also suffers from a severe shortage of burial space. The only functioning cemeteries are the Sheikh Radwan Cemetery and the Baptist Cemetery in the eastern part of the city. This has led many families to reopen old graves and bury multiple martyrs in a single grave, while simultaneously increasing the costs of preparing graves.

Human rights organizations and media outlets documented the bulldozing and desecration operations targeting a number of cemeteries in the Gaza Strip during Israeli ground operations. This resulted in the exhumation and mixing of the remains of the dead and martyrs, practices that constitute a violation of international humanitarian law and the sanctity of the dead.

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