Healthcare Workers Watch - Palestine

29/04/2026

Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW):
This morning, Israeli Occupation Forces killed the 33-year-old paramedic with the Palestinian Medical Services, Ibrahim Mahmoud Abu-Saqer in a targeted drone attack while he was on duty near Al-Tawam roundabout northwest of Gaza City.

18/04/2026

Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW) publishes new data on healthcare workers in Israeli detention.
Read and share the full report:
www.healthcareworkerswatch.org

08/03/2026

14/02/2026

HWW Press Release: A sixth healthcare worker from Gaza has died while in Israeli detention as fears grow for the safety of the remaining detainees
https://healthcareworkerswatch.org/press-releases/a-sixth-healthcare-worker-from-gaza-has-died-while-in-israeli-detention-as-fears-grow-for-the-safety-of-the-remaining-detainees/

04/02/2026

Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW): An msf female pharmacist was shot today while on duty at the NGO's clinic in Al-Mawasi, north of Rafah. The source of the bullet is not certain.

04/02/2026

Israeli Occupation Forces killed the paramedic at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Hussien Hassan Al-Smairi (48-year-old), in a double-tap strike targeted him while on a rescue mission for the wounded from the Israeli attack on the tents of displacement in Al-Mawasi, east of Khan Younis City.
Paramedic Hussien marks the fourth healthcare worker killed in Gaza since the October 2025 ceasfire, and the second in less than 24 hours.

03/02/2026

Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW): Israeli Occupation Forces killed today the pharmacist at the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, Entesar Nezar Shamallakh, as Israeli soldiers opened fire indiscriminately on residential buildings in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood east of Gaza City.
Pharmacist Entesar, the wife of chief of pulmonology at Al-Shifa Hospital and the mother of 11-year-old Salma, marks the third healthcare worker killed in Gaza since the October 2025 ceasfire.

27/11/2025

Nurse Tasneem Al-Hams is now free!
At least 95 Palestinian healthcare workers are still illegally detained in Israeli prisons without charge or legal representation.

09/11/2025

24/10/2025

Yesterday, Israeli Occupation Forces killed the medical laboratory specialist, Bakr Fathi Al-Reqb, in a quadcopter attack near his home at Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis City.
Bakr's father (a renowned consultant of paediatrics snd neonatology) and brother (a specialist of obstetrics and gyanecology) were similarly killed near their home by 2 seperate drone attacks back in August 2025 and March 2024.