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The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) identified 1,361 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) in 2024. Health facilities were damaged or destroyed at least 192 times, mostly by the IDF using explosive weapons. Children’s hospitals, dental clinics, field hospitals, health clinics, hospitals, medical storage facilities, pharmacies, and rehabilitation clinics were all damaged by aircraft and drone strikes, artillery shelling, missiles, tank fire, or gunfire, or by the military bulldozers that accompanied Israeli forces during their incursions into these facilities and their surrounding areas.
Hospitals like Kamal Adwan Hospital (North Gaza), Al-Amal Hospital (Khan Yunis), and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital (Deir al-Balah) were damaged multiple times. Most of these hospitals, such as Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza city, had already been attacked several times between October and December 2023. Hospitals and health clinics were shot at by Israeli forces, damaging infrastructure and threatening and injuring staff and patients inside. Health facilities were also extensively damaged by Israeli military bulldozers during numerous raids.
Israeli forces used explosive weapons over 230 times near health facilities in 2024, with blast waves and shrapnel causing direct damage and further destruction nearby, making it unsafe or difficult for medical teams and patients to reach hospitals.
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