Infographic: About 1,000 Palestinian health workers killed by Israeli forces in Gaza war

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli occupation forces have killed 1,151 Palestinian health workers during its genocide war on Gaza, the Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday.

A total of 986 were named in a new report published by the ministry, while personal data for the remaining 165 was still being verified. The ministry said the delay in the verification process was due to Israeli authorities withholding the victims’ bodies or their remains being buried under rubble.

“The Palestinian sector has been subjected to a systematic attack by the occupation forces that has affected all its components,” the ministry noted.

Health facilities were the target of direct and repeated Israeli raids and air strikes, it added, which has crippled the health system and left hundreds of thousands of war victims facing “imminent death”.

Health workers have been arrested, brutally interrogated and assassinated, it said.

“The data included in this report… reflects the effects of the systematic and deliberate Israeli aggression against the health sector.”

The Israeli military has been accused of deliberately destroying Gaza’s health system through constant attacks on hospitals, ambulances and doctors, including by airstrikes, detentions and denial of medical equipment, since the start of the war in Gaza on October 7.

In June, it was revealed that Dr Iyad Rantisi, who was the director of Kamal Adwan hospital’s maternity department, died “under torture” in Israeli custody after he was detained by invading troops from Gaza in November.

Prominent surgeon and professor of orthopedic medicine Dr Adnan al-Bursh was also killed in Israeli detention in April.

More than 300 health workers were arrested by Israeli forces during the assault.

Former prisoners say doctors are singled out for cruel treatment by Israeli forces in detention, where torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners is widespread and systematic.