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Insecurity Insight identified 2531 incidents of violence against or obstruction of access to health care in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory between 07 October 2023 and 17 March 2025. In the Gaza Strip, where 1813 incidents were recorded, health facilities were damaged 354 times, at least 623 health workers were killed and 353 arrested. In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where 685 incidents were recorded, 12 health workers were killed and 139 arrested.
Health facilities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem were stormed, raided, or surrounded on at least 30 occasions between 07 October 2023 and 17 March 2025, disrupting health care operations. Most of these incidents were attributed to Israeli forces storming medical centres, clinics, and hospitals. In some cases, staff were assaulted, arrested, or prevented from providing care and patients shot or arrested. Many incidents occurred in health facilities in Jenin, Shu'fat, al-Far’a, and Tulkarem Refugee Camps, with some raided more than once, including Ibn Sina Specialist Hospital in Jenin city raided five times. Explore the incidents on our interactive map.2. Access the data on HDX. The dataset does not currently include event descriptions or geo-coordinates due to HDX policy. Data is updated every Monday. Numbers may change if or when further information is made available. *635 is based on the number of health workers killed where location and date has been identified. Other sources have reported 986 health workers killed. Insecurity Insight carries out cross-checking of individual events and names and does not re-report aggregate figures. The work of collating a complete list of health workers killed based on information provided in different formats by different organisations is ongoing. This cross-checking process is complex to avoid double counting the same individuals in cases when sources report different victim information about the same individual. The lack of a consistent standard in transcribing Arab names into Latin script based languages complicates the matching process. The total number of health workers killed is believed to be higher than the current verified number and we continue to backdate information.
Past incident reports: 19 February-04 March; 05-18 February; 22 January-04 February; 08-21 January; 25 December-07 January; 11-24 December; 27 November-10 December; All
SHCC Factsheets (EN): 2023; 2022; 2021. (AR): 2023; 2022; 2021
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The publicly reported incidents below are not a complete nor a representative list of all incidents that affected the provision of health care between 05-18 March 2025. The incidents below have not been verified through ground investigations. There is a delay in reporting incidents due to our open source verification protocol. If you have additional information on an incident documented here, or a new incident, please get in touch.