Attachments
Insecurity Insight identified 2694 incidents of violence against or obstruction of access to health care in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory between 07 October 2023 and 28 April 2025. In the Gaza Strip, where 1841 incidents were recorded, health facilities were damaged 359 times, 645 health workers were killed and 354 arrested. In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where 735 incidents were recorded, 12 health workers were killed and 155 arrested.
Between 19 January and 18 March 2025, a ceasefire was in place in Gaza which facilitated exchanges of people and allowed humanitarian aid into Gaza. After Israel broke the ceasefire on 18 March and resumed its military offensive, attacks on health care escalated, showing similar patterns of intensity seen between October and December 2023. From 18 March to mid-May 2025, Insecurity Insight identified at least 34 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care, damaging seven health facilities and killing at least 22 health workers. These incidents continue to decimate Gaza’s fragile health care system amid a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
Read more about attacks on health in the oPt in the 2024 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) annual report Epidemic of Violence. Explore the incidents on our interactive map. Access the data on HDX. The datasetdoes not currentlyinclude 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.
*645 is based on the number of health workers killed where location and date has been identified. Other sources have reported 1,173 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.