Israel's targeting of medical infrastructure and personnel
 

NYRB: "The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that by early December 2024 only seventeen of Gaza's thirty-six hospitals remained even partially functional. By then, according to Doctors Without Borders [MSF], over a thousand health workers had been killed. By early January, the WHO's register of detained health workers was just shy of three hundred. Israeli attacks have killed a total of nine MSF staffers since the beginning of the war. [...] Several doctors, as the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reported in September 2024, are known to have died in Israeli detention. CNN reported that the head of al-Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital, claimed that he had been repeatedly tortured during his seven months in Israeli detention. (He was eventually released with no charges.) In December 2024 the IDF detained the director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussan Abu Safia, where, his lawyer told Al Jazeera, he was subjected to various forms of torture and inhumane treatment. He still has not been released from Israeli custody."

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