Our publications page contains a selection of articles on health in Palestine, with a focus on the destruction of the healthcare sector in Gaza.
December 2024
‘We Just Want Mercy’: A Gaza Hospital Pleads for a Respite
New York Times
Israel Destroys Only ICU in North Gaza as Hospital Head Reports Tanks Closing In
Truthout
Doctors in Gaza Say They Have No Doubt Israel Is Targeting Them
Truthout
Gaza: Aid workers are killed in Israeli airstrikes as attacks on hospitals continue
BMJ
Prevention of births in Gaza: Where lies the future?
International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
My journey in Gaza as an emergency doctor: loss, displacement, and hope
Mondoweiss
A Critical Situation': Gaza Doctor Warns of Catastrophe as Israel Assails Hospital
Common Dreams
Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International
November 2024
“We Haven’t Even Started Crying Yet”: Caring for the Family Under Occupation and War in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Annals of Family Medicine
The burden of acute malnutrition among children under five in conflict-afflicted Gaza strip: prevalence and associated factors
Frontiers in Nutrition
IPC Famine Review Committee Alert: Gaza Strip
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
Surgical Capacity Assessment and Leverage in the Palestinian Land (SCALPEL-I) Study: The First Nationwide Plastic Surgery Capacity Evaluation in Palestine
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open
My stories as an OB/GYN in Gaza reveal the truth of the Gaza genocide
Mondoweiss
Health care workers in Gaza ask why the international community ignores their suffering
Salon
There are dementia patients in Gaza too
Journal of Altzheimer’s Disease
‘I will stay inside my hospital until the last moment’
+972 magazine
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October 2024
When it stopped being a war: The situated testimony of Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah
Forensic Architecture
Gaza: Entire population at risk of genocide “executed under our watch,” says UN expert
British Medical Journal
She Exposed a Prestigious Medical Journal’s Silence on the Holocaust. Now She’s Asking About Gaza
The Intercept
Will there be a future for newborns in Gaza?
The Lancet
It’s Not Just the Bombs That Could Kill Us in Gaza
Slate
Are hospitals collateral damage? Assessing geospatial proximity of 2000 lb bomb detonations to hospital facilities in the Gaza Strip from October 7 to November 17, 2023
PLOS Global Public Health
65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza
New York Times
One year of a war without rules leaves Gaza shattered
Medecins sans frontieres
Lebanon: Israeli attack endangers a healthcare system reliant on Hezbollah
BMJ
US Doctors Tell Biden, Harris They 'Witnessed Crimes Beyond Comprehension' in Gaza
Common Dreams
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September 2024
For Gazans with disabilities, Israel’s genocide shows no mercy
+972 magazine
Unbearable suffering: mental health consequences of the October 2023 Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip
BMJ Global Health
Giving Birth in Gaza
Marie Claire
Safeguarding the SDG promise to end hunger and leave no one behind: the plight of children in the Gaza Strip
The Lancet Global Health
Gaza: Why is it so hard to establish the death toll?
Nature
An urgent case for measles vaccination in Gaza
The Lancet
Scientists are closing in on the true, horrifying scale of death and disease in Gaza
The Guardian
The Gaza war is an environmental catastrophe
+972 Magazine
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August 2024
Gaza’s Polio Outbreak Won’t Spare Israelis
Foreign policy
Documenting the Targeting and Destruction of the Health Sector in the Gaza Strip
Institute for Palestine Studies
Trauma care supported through a global telemedicine initiative during the 2023–24 military assault on the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestinian territory: a case series
The Lancet
Polio Vaccines Arrive in Gaza, but Distributing Them Is the Next Challenge
New York Times
Baby contracts Gaza's first case of polio in 25 years
BBC
Excess deaths in Gaza
Lancet Global Health
’They are burned alive’: A Doctor Captures the Toll of War on Gaza’s Children
New York Times
Inside one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals: “This is worse than I could have ever imagined”
New York Times
Finding the Moral Courage to Recognize a Genocide
Counterpunch
Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a network of torture camps
B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Many of Gaza’s Medical Workers Have Been Detained or Killed
New York Times
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July 2024
Water war crimes: How Israel has weaponised water in its military campaign in Gaza
Oxfam International
Poliovirus is detected in Gaza as “dire” conditions ignite fears of infectious diseases spreading
British Medical Journal
Accumulating waste poses catastrophic health risks in Gaza, UNRWA says
New York Times
We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable
Politico
Nine Months of Israel's War on Gaza: The Mental Health Impacts and the GCMHP's Response
Gaza Community Mental Health Program
Pain, loss, fear, panic, anger: Gaza's Palestinians are suffering psychological torment
Middle East Eye
Racism as a Threat to Palestinian Health Equity
Health Equity
Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say
The Guardian
Comparative analysis and evolution of civilian versus combatant mortality ratios in Israel-Gaza conflicts
Frontiers in Public Health
War on Gaza: attacks on science are erasing the future
The Lancet
Counting the dead in Gaza: Difficult but essential
The Lancet
Medical training at a time of massive shock
Electronic Intifada
Can Health Care Personnel Speak Out on Health and Human Rights Issues in Gaza?
Health and Human Rights
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June 2024
The prevalence of PTSD and coping strategies among Palestinian mental health professionals during political violence and wartime
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Stories of survival and suffering: inside Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital
Mondoweiss
‘We’re all at risk of being targeted’: Doctors evacuate Rafah’s last hospitals
+972 magazine
Racism as a Threat to Palestinian Health Equity
Health Equity
Israel Is Killing Gaza’s Medical Workers. This Doctor Saw the Results Firsthand
Truthout
The meagre flow of aid into Gaza is creating a deadly health crisis for Palestinians
British Medical Journal
Environmental impact of the conflict in Gaza
UN Environment Program
Pregnant in Gaza with Nowhere to Go
New York Times
’A Hellscape’: Dire Conditions in Gaza Leave a Multitude of Amputees
New York Times
3500 trauma deaths in 90 days: A projection report for Rafah
LSHTM/JHU Gaza Projections
Gaza's doctors were building a health system. Then came war
Reuters
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May 2024
Psychological and Social Suffering of Another Generation of Palestinian Children Living Under Occupation: An Urgent Call to Advocate
Health and Human Rights Journal
2 weeks inside Gaza’s ruined hospitals
New York Times
The US Medical Establishment Is Making One of Its Worst Mistakes—Again
The Nation
Patients in Gaza with chronic conditions need urgent interventions
The Lancet
Protecting humanitarian aid workers: an urgent call
The Lancet
Embodying Homeland: Palestinian Grief and the Perseverance of Beauty in a Time of Genocide
Journal of Palestine Studies
British Paediatricians call on UK government to stop selling arms to Israel
British Medical Journal
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April 2024
How Gaza’s Largest Mental-Health Organization Works Through War
The New Yorker
‘Nowhere and no one is safe’: spatial analysis of damage to critical civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip
Conflict and Health
Medical Lawfare: The Nakba and Israel’s Attacks on Palestinian Healthcare
Journal of Palestine Studies
‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza
The Guardian
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January - March 2024
On the duty to protect the people of Gaza: how the collapse of the hospital health care system has reinforced genocidal intent
Journal of Public Health and Emergency
For Gaza’s Pregnant Women and Newborns, the War Will Never Be Over
New York Times
In Israel-Hamas war, where are the voices of the healing profession?
Seattle Times
The Epidemiological War on Gaza
Jewish Currents