By Quds News Network
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israel has killed 1,588 health workers in Gaza since October 7, 2023, the Gaza Health Ministry announced Sunday.
Dr. Muneer Al-Boursh, the ministry’s secretary-general, said Israel struck Dr. Ahmed Qandeel, a general surgery consultant and a pillar of Gaza’s medical community. “His death is not an exception,” Al-Barsh said. “It is part of a systematic campaign of extermination.”
Al-Boursh added that doctors, nurses, and paramedics face danger every day. “We documented 1,588 health professionals killed while performing their humanitarian duty,” he said.
Hospitals in Gaza have become military targets. Ambulances now serve as moving coffins, Al-Boursh warned. “This violates all international laws and norms,” he said.
“Why kill doctors?” he asked. “Because their presence means life. Their resilience disrupts the machine of death. The occupier fears healers as much as it fears fighters.”
Over the past 21 months, Israel’s genocide has crushed Gaza’s health system. The army destroyed 34 of 38 hospitals, both public and private. Only four hospitals still function, and then only at limited capacity.
Israeli restrictions have blocked international medical teams from entering Gaza. This ban deepened staff shortages and pushed the system to the brink of collapse.
Gaza now faces a dire shortage of medicines and equipment. Health workers struggle to treat the wounded and the sick under constant bombardment and crippling blockade.
Dr. Al-Boursh urged urgent global action to protect health workers and restore medical services in Gaza before the system fails entirely.
14 July 2025
Source: countercurrents.org