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Insecurity Insight identified 2569 incidents of violence against or obstruction of access to health care in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory between 07 October 2023 and 19 January 2025. 1 In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where 618 incidents were recorded, 12 health workers were killed, 137 arrested and over 100 injured. Ambulances and health workers were prevented from providing vital medical care to people in need at least 155 times. Incidents have increased in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since the 19 January Gaza ceasefire. Al-Amal Hospital, Israa Specialized Hospital, Martyr Thabet Thabet Hospital and Tulkarm Hospital have been besieged and ambulances obstructed from reaching people in need. The entrance to Jenin Governmental Hospital and roads leading to the facility have been bulldozed by Israeli forces (see below for more details).
Explore the incidents on our interactive map 2 and on this data visualisation by Soha Elghany. 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.
*664 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.