500 Health Workers Killed In Gaza By Israel

Oluwatobi OdeyinkaJuly 17, 20241 Mins read318

No fewer than 500 health workers, including specialised doctors, have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 2023, according to AP news agency.

The specialist doctors killed include a plastic surgeon specialising in wound care, a reconstructive surgeon, an obstetrician/gynaecologist, an orthopaedic surgeon, a fertility doctor, and the only liver transplant doctor in Gaza.

AP News reported that a plastic surgeon, Hassan Hamdan, who specialised in wound reconstruction, was killed along with 12 members of his family in July. He reportedly came out of retirement to treat victims of the war.

“I was only able to collect some body parts of my kids and their mother because of how huge the explosion was,” Hamdan’s son, Osama, said.

Hamdan, an orthopaedic surgeon, was on duty in the emergency room at Nasser Hospital when he received the call that his wife and two sons – aged three and five – were among those killed.

Despite calls for a ceasefire and accusations of war crimes, Israel has continued its onslaught on the people of Palestine, killing at least 38,713 since October 7.

On Tuesday, three Israeli airstrikes in less than an hour killed at least 48 people, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency.

Aljazeera reported that the attacks killed “at least 25 people at a UN-run school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat area, 18 were killed in southern Khan Younis, and five people were killed in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.”

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