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On March 23, 2025, Feroze Sidhwa—a surgeon working in Gaza—posted an urgent update on the social media platform X:

“I was at Nasser Hospital in #Gaza when it was bombed today. One of my patients, a 17-year-old boy, was killed. He would have gone home tomorrow. If I had been changing his dressings, as I planned to this evening, I probably would have been killed too. Attacking hospitals is a war crime, and it needs to stop.”

The attack described by doctor Sidhwa killed at least 2 people, and injured others. And, as Shurafa and Magdy report, “like other medical facilities around Gaza, Nasser Hospital has been damaged by Israeli raids and strikes throughout the war.” Indeed, consider a few more recent headlines and stories that illustrate this harsh reality for Palestine’s medical practitioners and patients.

On March 21, 2025, Gaza Notifications posted a video announcement on X, with the caption “ Breaking: The Israeli army blows up and destroys the Turkish Friendship Hospital, the only hospital in Gaza dedicated to cancer patients.”

The day before this, a Daily Brief headline from Human Rights Watch read as follows: “Israel’s Deadly Cruelty in Gaza Hospitals.” That same morning, journalist Hossam Shabat shared news that “The Israeli occupation is no longer allowing doctors and nurses to enter Gaza.” Four days later, Hossam himself was killed by the Israeli military.

A few days prior to those headlines, a doctor in Gaza reported his situation at Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. He said “It was just mostly women and children burned head to toe, limbs missing, heads missing.” Medical workers in Gaza face exceptionally challenging circumstances while trying to do their job—to make........

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