Testimonies by International Doctors

"A bomb would drop on a crowded tented area and then the drones would come down and pick off civilians, children.”
- British Transplant Surgeon and Prof. Nizam Mamode’s Testimony in the UK Parlament 12.11.2024

”.. describing surgeries performed on filthy floors without anaesthesia and children dying from preventable causes due to Israel's blockade of medical supplies. He recounted treating pregnant women "whose pelvises had been obliterated and their foetuses cut in two," and revealed that 83% of American medics in Gaza reported seeing children shot in the head or chest.
- American Dr. Faroze Sidwha, UN Security Council, November 26, 2024

"Every conflict zone is horrible. It’s mankind at its worst. But what I've seen in Gaza is exponentially worse. Because it’s basically no holds barred, no rules at all and the targets aren’t enemy combatants. I've seen children getting hurt everywhere, but they’re always just a fraction, a minority. In Gaza they are the people primarily getting hurt.”
- American Dr. Adam Hamawy, who served in Iraq as a Trauma Surgeon for the US military and in Bosnia during the Srebrenica Genocide

”Dr Saya Aziz said the situation was “catastrophic”. “You’ll hear a big huge bomb, then you’ll know within 5-10 minutes, you’re going to get a mass casualty. You’ll hear the wailing, the screams, the chaos … family members bringing in the patients.” She described the scenes that confronted medical staff following an attack as “a bloodbath … You’ll walk into the resus area and … don’t know where to look,” she said. “Bits of flesh everywhere, dangling bits of toes, muscle, tendons… The horror of it all.””
- Australian Dr. Saya Aziz, 09/2025

“The bombing is ongoing; you feel like they are trying all type of weapons on these people,” she said. “It’s killing from every direction that you can ever imagine, psychologically, emotionally, physically – the type of injuries that I see the kids with, they are shredded into pieces, it’s unacceptable.”
- Australian Dr. Abu Alrub, 09/2025

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- Australian Dr. Saya Aziz, 09/2025

Targeting of Children and Civilians

• Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest - de Volkskrant

• Civilians made up of 15 of every 16 people killed in Gaza since march, new data suggests - Irish Examiner

• "Unimaginable horrors”; More than 50,000 children reportedly killed or injured in the Gaza Strip - UN

• Israel limits entry of baby formula in Gaza as infants die of hunger - Le Monde

• Israel’s Extreme Restrictions on Medical Supplies Entering Gaza Have Caused Death and Anguish: New Study - Physicians for Human Rights

• "Publicly reported figures show that more than 65 000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 165 000 wounded during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ... A capture-recapture analysis of mortality up to 30 June 2024 estimated an under-count of nearly 41% for officially recorded deaths.” - Patterns of war related trauma in Gaza during armed conflict: survey study of international healthcare workers, BMJ 2025

• ”Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.” Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential - The Lancet, July 10, 2024

• More than 10% of Gaza’s population has been killed or injured, former Israeli military chief says - CNN

• "Up to 40,000 children in Gaza are believed to have lost at least one parent as Israeli forces continue a brutal offensive." Bombed, starving and orphaned: The horrific plight of children arriving in Gaza’s hospitals alone - The Independent

• According to a Hebrew University mapping, 89% of the buildings in Rafah, 84% of the buildings in the northern Gaza Strip and 78% of the buildings in Gaza City have been completely or partially destroyed. The data shows that since April, an average of 2,000 buildings have been destroyed in Rafah each month - New Satellite Data Shows: Gaza Devastation Scale Greater Than Estimated, at Least 70 Percent of Buildings Leveled - Haaretz

The children injured, and dying, because of Israel’s army.
WARNING! Video is extremely graphic.

”What do you mean you saw kids shot in the head every single day?”
- American Dr. Feroze Sidwha

”We just had a 6-month old that came in with a bullet entry in the chest through the abdomen and died”
- American Dr. Tipu Khan in Gaza 9/2025

Targeting Health Care Workers and Aid Workers

Gaza: Doctors under attack

Fault Lines: Israe’ls month long detention of Dr. Abu Safiya

• Unlawfully detained, tortured and starved; The plight of of Gaza’s medical workers in Israeli custody - Physicians for Human Rights Israel

• "He is one of more than 885 healthcare workers reportedly killed in Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October 2023. This includes nurses, paramedics, doctors, and other medical personnel. Many more have been injured.” UN expert shocked by death of another Palestinian doctor in Israeli detention - UN, 24 September 2024

• Gaza doctor Adnan Al-Bursh 'raped, tortured to death' in Israeli custody, new report reveals - The Business Standard

• Israel Arrested a Senior Doctor in Gaza. Six Days Later, He Died in a Shin Bet Interrogation Facility - Haaretz

• The Killing, Detention and Torture of Healthcare Workers in Gaza - Healthcare Workers Watch

• Dr Abu Salmiya also said that Palestinian prisoners were facing verbal and physical humiliation, as well as a lack of food and water. Israel releases head of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital after seven months - BBC

• Red Cross outraged over killing of medics by Israeli forces in Gaza - BBC

• Gaza: Israelis Attacking Known Aid Worker Locations - Human Rights Watch

• "Israeli forces fired upon a clearly identified Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) water truck … The vehicle’s route and schedule had been communicated in advance to the Israeli authorities, as MSF does on a daily basis.”  MSF condemns Israeli attack on water distribution site in Gaza City 

Targeting of Journalists

• Deadliest year on record for journalists; 70% killed by Israel - Committee to Protect Journalist

• The latest figures from Palestinian authorities say that at least 245 journalists have died in Gaza in the nearly two-year conflict.- ‘An open war on free media’: Israel condemned over the ever-growing death toll of journalists in Gaza - The Independent

• At least 21 Palestinians killed in ‘double-tap’ attack on Nasser Hospital. Israel bombs hospital, kills journalists, medics, dozens more across Gaza - Aljazeera

• NBC news uutisvideo: Nasser hospital attack on August 25, 2025

Torture and Detention without charges in Israeli Prisons

• Inside Israel’s ‘torture’ jails where Palestinians held without charge tell of brutal treatment - The Independent

• Israel’s escalating use of torture against Palestinians in custody a preventable crime against humanity - United Nations

• “A functional, law-abiding state does not starve human beings – regardless of what they have done.” Israel High Court majority rules: Israel Prison Service fails to provide adequate nutrition to prisoners - The Jerusalem Post

• “These include the prevalence of traumatic night-time arrests raids against children in their family home; children being painfully hand-tied, blindfolded, transferred to detention on the floor of a military vehicle, and subjected to physical and verbal abuse by Israeli soldiers.” What Palestinian Children Face in Israeli Prisons - Time

• "The United Nations also urged a "full-scale investigation" and referenced "a number of videos in recent months which show gross violations of the rights of Palestinians detained by Israel including acts of ill-treatment, torture, sexual violence, and rape.”- Video appears to show IDF soldiers sexually abusing Palestinian detainee - Sky News

The West Bank

The behavior of Israeli government officials and soldiers