Gaza: Doctors Under Attack (2025)

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A group of Palestinian

emergency workers and medics

are on a rescue mission.

Their ambulance is clearly marked,

with lights flashing.

RAPID g*nshots

Israeli soldiers

open fire, and start

to k*ll the rescue workers.

They said the convoy was suspicious

because its lights were off.

But when 15 bodies were exhumed

from a mass grave, this video

from the phone of one of the dead

medics exposed the Israeli version

of events as untrue.

SHOUTING, g*nshots

This is just one

attack amongst hundreds

on Palestinian healthcare workers.

As Israel has bombed Gaza,

hundreds of Palestinian doctors

and medics have refused

to leave their hospitals.

We are in the theatre,

in the operating room.

Full darkness.

No water, no electricity.

But we have a hero -

surgeons in Gaza.

SIREN WAILS

Homes, schools

and universities have been

destroyed, k*lling and injuring

tens of thousands.

But from the first day of the w*r,

Israel attacked the one thing

Palestinians needed most -

its healthcare system.

21 months on, and every

one of Gaza's 36 main

hospitals has been attacked,

forced to evacuate or destroyed.

Bam!

And Israel has been k*lling the very

people trying to keep

the healthcare system alive -

its doctors and medics -

despite hospitals and healthcare

workers being protected

under international law.

He got injured.

They shooted at us

in the operating room.

Israel claims Hamas uses hospitals

as part of its military strategy.

Hundreds of healthcare

workers have been k*lled.

Hundreds have been detained.

Many of them have been

forcibly disappeared.

This film is a forensic

investigation into Israeli military

attacks on hospitals in Gaza,

and allegations of targeting

and abuse of doctors

and healthcare workers.

Our Palestinian team on the ground

have gathered testimony from health

workers and their families.

And Israeli whistle-blowers have

told us they've witnessed

Palestinian prisoners being tortured

and that some Israeli

medics are complicit.

I don't even think that

in the Israeli society, there

is a need for a cover-up these days.

You can do almost whatever you want

when it comes to Gazans.

Sderot is an Israeli

town bordering Gaza.

It was raided by Hamas militants

on October 7th and at least 70

people were k*lled here.

SHOUTING

DANCE MUSIC

In total,

around 1,200 people were k*lled

by Hamas and other militant groups,

and 251 were taken

as hostages into Gaza.

MAN SHOUTS: Allahu Akbar!

Israelis have been coming to this

vantage point in Sderot

to pay their respects to the dead...

..and to watch Gaza being attacked.

For over a week, Israeli forces have

been raiding northern Gaza,

especially Jabalia refugee camp,

which you can see from here.

There have been reports of over 300

Palestinians have been k*lled.

We just heard a massive boom and saw

the smoke rising behind us.

And reports just coming in now,

Israeli Air Force has bombed

the Al-Falah Medical Centre

in Jabalia, northern Gaza.

Another medical centre

that's been attacked.

At the start of the w*r,

the Israeli Army targeted

Gaza's largest hospital,

Al-Shifa.

The hospital was already

overwhelmed with casualties

from strikes on Gaza City.

Mohammad Abu Salmiya

was the hospital's director.

In early October, there

were close to 150 specialists

working at Al-Shifa,

among them two orthopaedic surgeons,

Mohammed Obeid and Adnan Al Bursh,

seen here on the left.

Al-Shifa became a symbolic

target for Israel.

The Israeli military

claimed there was a Hamas

command centre beneath it,

and even released this video

animation of what it

said it looked like.

CCTV footage was later released

by the Israeli Defense Forces,

the IDF, showing two injured

hostages being rushed

into the hospital by Hamas

militants on October the 7th.

The IDF's bombing campaign

was driving tens of thousands

of displaced people to seek refuge

in and around Al-Shifa.

Israel had cut off electricity

and water to the Gaza Strip.

Hospital generators were quickly

running out of fuel.

We are in the theatre,

in the operating room.

Full darkness, no

water, no electricity.

But we have a hero -

surgeons in Gaza.

We are working now in surgery

with chargeable light,

with manual ventilation.

The Israeli Army dropped thousands

of leaflets ordering the population

of northern Gaza to move south,

and issued evacuation orders

for hospitals in the north.

SIRENS WAIL

expl*si*n

On November 3rd,

an Israeli strike hit a convoy

of ambulances exiting the hospital.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said

15 people were k*lled.

At least 60 were injured.

The Israeli Army claimed

the ambulances were transporting

Hamas militants, but it did not

provide any evidence of this.

Three days later, the hospital's

solar panels were struck,

destroying one of its last sources

of energy and k*lling

at least one person.

SCREAMING

On November 10th,

a tank shell hit tents

outside the hospital.

It was the first of several strikes

on the hospital complex in 24 hours,

including on a maternity ward.

Within days, Israeli troops had

completely surrounded the hospital.

Hospital administrators said

there wasn't enough fuel

to keep generators running.

As a result, at least 40

patients died, including

four premature babies.

Doctor Adnan Al Bursh joined medical

staff to dig a mass grave.

The IDF finally raided Al-Shifa.

It failed to provide sufficient

evidence showing the existence

of a key Hamas command centre,

and Israel has continually

prevented access for

an independent investigation.

Patients who could began

to leave the hospital.

They were accompanied

by around 60 medical staff,

including surgeons Adnan Al Bursh

and Mohammed Obeid.

The route led to the south of Gaza,

but there weren't enough

doctors in the north.

As soon as they could,

Doctors Al Bursh and Obeid left

the IDF-ordered route and headed

north to the Indonesian Hospital.

The w*r had separated

Adnan Al Bursh from his wife,

Yasmine, and their children.

But the Indonesian Hospital

and its vicinity was also

targeted by the IDF.

Again, the IDF said a Hamas tunnel

complex lay beneath it...

..and also that rockets had been

launched from sites close by.

CHILD SCREAMS

Dr Al Bursh's ward

was struck on November 20th.

This footage, broadcast

on Al Jazeera, shows him

injured after the attack.

12 patients on the ward were k*lled.

Three days later, the Israeli Army

issued evacuation orders, then

raided and shut down the hospital.

Dr Al Bursh was on the move again.

He joined Dr Obeid

at Al Awda Hospital,

their third in short succession.

This hospital had come under Israeli

attack just days before.

SHOUTING

Nine months

later, Al Awda Hospital

was partially functioning.

Dr Mohammed Obeid was

still working there.

During a lull in the fighting,

he told us about the

attacks on the hospital.

Two weeks after the ward

was hit, Dr Obeid says

the Israeli Army gave the director

of the hospital an ultimatum.

Dr Al Bursh made a final

call to his family.

There is no footage

of Adnan Al Bursh being seized,

but Al Jazeera obtained these

pictures showing men

stripped to their underwear

in the vicinity of the hospital.

We don't know if there are any

medics in these pictures.

Like hospitals, medics are given

extensive protections

under international law,

regardless of their political views.

The Israeli Army said

Dr Al Bursh was arrested

on suspicion of terrorism.

They provided no evidence of this.

Dr Al Bursh praised the October 7th

attacks at the time,

and has been supportive of militant

groups in the past, like some other

doctors in this film.

Following three of the hospital

raids that we've investigated,

we found that medics were taken

to locations human rights groups

have described to us as black sites,

where there's no judicial oversight.

HE GIVES ORDERS

Footage of the sites is rare,

but this was filmed by a member

of the IDF in a football

stadium in Gaza City,

and was posted online

in December 2023.

We can't confirm if medics

are in these images,

but thousands of Palestinians have

been taken to these

sites, including medics.

We travelled to Ramallah,

in the occupied West Bank,

to meet Budour Hassan,

an Amnesty International researcher.

Now, you've been investigating

black sites in Gaza.

What are these black

sites being used for?

In these sites, the soldiers have

absolutely complete power

to abuse, to t*rture,

to hit, to humiliate the detainee,

without any oversight.

What can you tell me

about the detainment of Palestinian

doctors and healthcare workers?

So, if there is one characteristic

for which this w*r has stood out

it's the systematic targeting

of the Palestinian healthcare

sector in the Gaza Strip.

We're not talking about 10, 20, 30,

40 healthcare workers.

We're talking about

hundreds of detainees.

Israeli authorities would say that

maybe these healthcare workers know

some information about hostages,

or they knew information about Hamas

fighters being treated.

But on many occasions,

these doctors are probably

interrogated just once or twice -

and that's it.

The t*rture and unlawful treatment

to which healthcare workers

are subjected is evident intent

of the Israeli authorities

to destroy Palestinians.

So there is also an element

of genocidal intent.

And destroying the healthcare

sector, basically taking it out

of service through different means -

not always necessarily

by directly attacking them,

but by also detaining hundreds

of healthcare workers.

Budour says she's identified

at least four black sites so far.

So, do you think there

are other black sites that

you haven't heard about,

that you haven't been

able to identify?

I think what we were able

to identify is just a drop

in an ocean of horror.

This image of a black

site was posted online.

We've been told the four

men in the foreground

are all healthcare workers.

One of them is now in Egypt.

You are one of these men.

Which one are you?

This is who I am.

You're that one?

Yes.

VOICEOVER: Khaled Hamouda

is a specialist surgeon.

It was shocking.

I mean, this is really shocking.

Yes.

It looks apocalyptic.

And later, you said that

you were put into this pit?

It's a huge hole,

you know, very high.

A month before this picture

was taken, Dr Hamouda was working

at the Indonesian Hospital.

After it was attacked and shut down

by the Israeli Army,

he was forced to move

to Kamal Adwan Hospital,

a short walk from his home.

This is your home?

This is where I live.

OK.

Our building, it's three floors.

Yeah.

He shared the building

with his extended family,

three of whom were doctors.

He says they were the only

occupants of the building.

On December 3rd, 2023, his house

was hit by a direct air strike.

Ten of Khaled Hamouda's

family were k*lled.

So, can you tell us what happened

after they attacked

it, where you went?

We moved away about

30m - here, exactly.

Mm-hm.

In front of this building.

So all these buildings

were still standing and only

your building was hit?

Yes.

So you ran up the street?

Yes.

Up to another building?

We thought we were safe now,

because the air strike finished

and the building almost destroyed.

Yes.

And about ten of you sat outside

this building in the road?

Yes.

And that's when a drone strike hit?

Yes.

Khaled Hamouda was injured.

He was taken to

Kamal Adwan Hospital.

The two strikes k*lled 12 members

of Khaled Hamouda's family,

a family of doctors.

We asked the IDF why they targeted

Khaled Hamouda's family home.

They did not respond

to this question.

Khaled Hamouda and his surviving

family joined thousands of others

taking refuge in the grounds

of his workplace,

Kamal Adwan Hospital.

For a week, the hospital

was bombarded, before being raided

and then forcibly evacuated.

The UN says Israeli soldiers

detained over 70 medics.

Khaled was amongst them,

and was separated from his two

surviving children.

The Israeli Army said

they had detained 90

t*rrorists during the raids -

including the hospital

director, whom they claimed

was a Hamas operative -

and again said that the hospital

was being used as a command

and control centre.

This is Kamal Adwan Hospital.

They took us, we walk

all the street.

Yeah.

And they ask the doctors

to sit down there.

Mm-hm.

It's here where Khaled

was photographed.

Khaled says he was taken to an

adjacent building and interrogated.

After eight hours, where he says

he and others were violently beaten,

Dr Hamouda was then

transported to Israel.

The forcible transfer of prisoners

across borders is prohibited

under international law.

The IDF told us that those found not

to be involved in t*rror1st activity

are released as soon as possible.

Barely a week after his daughter

and wife were k*lled,

Dr Hamouda was in Israeli detention.

He says he was held in stress

positions, and on one occasion

forced to grip barbed wire.

Dr Hamouda has expressed support

for Hamas on social media,

including the attacks on October

7th, and mourning a relative

who was a senior Hamas commander.

After three weeks,

he was released without charge.

The IDF told us they rejected

the claims made on the use of black

sites to avoid judicial oversight,

as well as claims regarding enforced

disappearances, and that they follow

international and Israeli law.

In the occupied West Bank,

we meet academic Dr Layth Hanbali,

from the research centre

The Institute for Palestine Studies.

He's been tracking Israel's attacks

on Gaza's healthcare system,

using data collected

by the organisation

Healthcare Workers Watch.

They've documented the deaths

of 118 doctors, 65 of them

k*lled in their own homes.

We've heard of incidents

where doctors have been hit

while in their homes.

Are these just accidents?

So, the Israeli Army claims to use

precise strikes in order to target

identified either t*rrorists

or t*rror1st infrastructure,

and that it aims to minimise

unintended casualties.

And so, whether it's

because the Israeli Army has

deliberately chosen to assassinate

those individuals, or because it

doesn't care that it kills them

and it considers them collateral

damage, it has made a choice to k*ll

them, whether it's collateral damage

or whether it's assassination.

The massive loss of expertise

will take years to rebuild.

Structures can be built very

quickly, but healthcare

professionals require years

to be trained.

And so that's going to

have a massively detrimental effect

on the health of the Palestinian

population for years to come.

By January 2024, Gaza's Ministry

of Health calculated that

over 23,000 Palestinians

had been k*lled...

..and the UN estimated that 60%

of Gaza's homes had been

damaged or destroyed.

Only 13 out of Gaza's 36

hospitals were functioning.

With Al-Shifa shut down,

the largest medical facility

operating in Gaza was now

Nasser Hospital in the south.

Our colleague Jaber Badwan has been

meeting the families of medics

who have been k*lled,

detained or disappeared.

One of them is a missing surgeon

called Khaled Al Serr.

He was taken from Nasser Hospital

by the IDF in March 2024.

This is Khaled's mother, Kawther.

This is Khaled's brother, Wael.

We travelled to Egypt in September

2024 to meet a doctor who'd been

with Khaled Al Serr at Nasser

Hospital.

Ahmed Moghrabi was the only

reconstructive surgeon

left in southern Gaza.

OK.

Hello, my friend, again

from the operating room.

I have one child, two years old.

You were in Nasser

with Dr Khaled Al Serr.

Can you tell me about him?

The Israeli Army had

surrounded Nasser for weeks.

Like thousands of other

Palestinians, Dr Moghrabi

and his family were sheltering

at the hospital.

EXPLOSIONS

They are bombing.

The IDF began striking

the hospital and its vicinity

and cutting off supplies.

It's a really crime,

it's a really crime.

They attacked a very populated area.

Displaced people here

cannot cross this road.

Ahmed Moghrabi filmed people

being targeted by Israeli sn*pers

at the hospital gate.

It's a child.

ON VIDEO: As you see,

just dead body.

So that's the entrance of Nasser.

This is the entrance.

Right.

Dr Moghrabi captured this moment

after an armed drone shot

a nurse on his ward.

Allahu Akbar.

During this period, hospital staff

told us that at least 14 people

were k*lled by sn*pers or drones.

A mass grave was dug for them

and the many others who had died

in the hospital grounds -

just as in Al-Shifa.

The Israeli military

said Nasser Hospital

was being used to hide hostages.

A number of freed hostages say

they were held at Nasser

until they were released.

Did you ever see any hostages

being held at Nasser?

On February 15th, both

Doctors Moghrabi and Khaled Al Serr

were working when Israeli forces

shelled and then finally

raided the hospital.

Khaled Al Serr was on the ward.

Dr Moghrabi fled with his family.

Dr Moghrabi says he and his family

had to pass through an Israeli Army

checkpoint where soldiers

were searching out medical

staff, amongst others.

Dr Moghrabi believes

that he and his family

managed to escape only

because he removed his scrubs.

After days of continuous w*r

in Gaza, the Israeli Army invaded

the hospital by soldiers

and by tanks, bulldozers.

They displaced all the healthcare

workers and all patients

from all the buildings to be

condensed into one department.

Inside the hospital,

Dr Khaled Al Serr was filming

the patients who remained.

Israeli soldiers then

rounded people up.

Like in other hospital raids,

Palestinians are stripped and bound.

Even patients still

in their beds are zip-tied.

The IDF said that it had

arrested around 200 people,

including what it described

as t*rrorists who posed as medics.

According to the Ministry

of Health in Gaza, 70 medics

were detained during the raid.

The IDF withdrew, while Dr Al Serr

and the remaining staff tried

to keep the hospital running.

But weeks later, they raided again.

This time, Dr Khaled

Al Serr was taken.

According to the UN,

the attacks on the hospitals we've

investigated appear to follow

a pattern of as*ault

that the Israeli Army has been

replicating across Gaza.

This United Nations report,

published in December 2024,

sets out the pattern

generally being used.

First, the Army strikes hospital

buildings and surroundings.

Then it besieges the hospital with

ground troops, preventing access

and blocking medical supplies.

It raids the hospital,

often using tanks and bulldozers.

It detains medical staff,

patients and displaced people

sheltering in the hospital.

It then forces anyone

remaining to leave.

And finally, Israeli troops

withdraw, effectively rendering

the hospital non-functional.

It is a w*r crime to attack civilian

hospitals unless they're used

to commit acts harmful to the enemy,

but even then, any response

must be proportionate.

In response to the UN report,

Israel said, "Hamas has chosen

to methodically abuse

the protection of

medical facilities.

Hamas embeds its tunnel

system and infrastructure

within the premises."

And so Israel says their operations

are therefore "legally justifiable".

As we're gathering testimonies

from medics and their families

in Gaza about how they're

being targeted, we're

also collecting evidence

about what happens once they're

brought here to Israel.

In the occupied West Bank,

lawyer Khaled Zabarga

is representing ten detained

healthcare workers from Gaza.

His clients are being

held in Ofer Prison.

For the first seven months

of the w*r, Israel prevented lawyers

communicating with detainees.

Now they can apply to visit

after 90 days of detention,

but very few applications

have been approved.

We can't go in with him, but this

is footage from inside the prison.

PRISONER SCREAMS

On the anniversary

of the October 7th attacks,

Israel's Channel 13 filmed a raid

on Ofer Prison by the Israel Prison

Service, in what they said

was a search for weapons.

Later that evening,

we met with Khaled Zabarga

on his return from Ofer Prison.

He said his client showed signs

of physical and mental t*rture.

We put these allegations to the IDF,

and they didn't respond.

There had been no sightings

of Khaled Al Serr, the missing

surgeon from Nasser Hospital...

..until this video was posted

of a hospital administrator

called Ahmed Al Kel,

who had just been

released from prison.

Like thousands of Palestinians,

the two men had been transferred

from black sites in Gaza

to detention centres in Israel.

Khaled Al Serr had been held at

a military base called Sde Teiman.

That, in the distance,

is the Sde Teiman military facility.

We're not going to get any closer.

Now, originally, it was a military

base and vehicle warehouse,

but after the 7th October Hamas

attacks, it was quickly converted

into an interrogation site housing

hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

It's now become notorious after

reports of t*rture, r*pe and abuse.

Israel's Channel 12 broadcast

a leaked video purporting to show

a g*ng r*pe at Sde Teiman.

The victim's injuries were

so severe, he was taken to hospital

for emergency surgery.

When nine soldiers were arrested,

ultranationalist Israelis stormed

Sde Teiman demanding their release.

Five of those soldiers

were later charged with abuse.

CHANTING

Some Israeli politicians

debated whether the r*pe

of prisoners should be allowed.

There's been hardly any

testimony from soldiers

stationed at Sde Teiman,

but we've found one soldier willing

to talk about what he saw.

But he says he can only

do this anonymously

because he feels under threat.

Even before going there,

I had heard rumours of what...

..you know, what was done

to detainees there, with either

people bragging about physically

abusing them or sort

of joking about it.

They would say, like,

to me that I would have

to physically abuse detainees.

Can you tell me about

the detainees who were doctors

or healthcare workers?

There were a lot of detainees that

were known to be detained

from the hospitals in Gaza.

And the main reason, I was told,

that they were detained

is that they possibly witnessed

hostages either being transported

to places or being given care

in hospitals in Gaza.

Did you ever witness

detainees being abused?

Yeah.

Soldiers that were enthusiastic

to get their hands on detainees.

What do you mean by that?

Even among commanders,

one of the incidents in which, like,

one of the soldiers which had beaten

a detainee, he wouldn't shut up

about it, and I recall

the commander being in on it

and showing his respect for that.

From what you're saying,

it sounds like this behaviour

wasn't just tolerated,

it was encouraged.

Yeah, yeah.

In those sort of circles,

people that guard the detainees sort

of view themselves as fighters

or something, and I think

this whole experience

was still viewed as pretty just.

What do you think about that now?

I mean, it was shocking.

I'm deeply ashamed.

CHILDREN CHATTER

Our producer,

Jaber Badwan, interviewed several

medics who'd been held

at Sde Teiman, then

released back into Gaza.

Walid Khalili is a paramedic.

This is him at Al-Shifa

hospital in 2023.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society

says 27 of their paramedics have

been k*lled while on duty

since October 2023.

34 of their ambulances have been

taken out of service

due to Israeli attacks.

Walid Khalili was arrested

while on a rescue mission

and taken to Sde Teiman,

and later transferred

to another prison.

Dr Saeed Marouf is a paediatrician.

He's back treating Gaza's

wounded and malnourished

children at Nasser Hospital,

now partially functioning.

According to the United Nations,

much of Gaza has been on the brink

of famine because of Israel's severe

restrictions on aid.

Dr Marouf was detained for 45 days,

mostly at Sde Teiman.

General Surgeon Issam Abu Ajwa

and his whole team were taken

from the operating theatre

in Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.

He makes shocking allegations

about his 137 days in Sde Teiman.

Dr Abu Ajwa makes a shocking

allegation that others have told us

- that some Israeli medics refuse

to treat Palestinian prisoners

and even physically abuse them.

We spoke to Israeli medics

who confirmed that some doctors had

mistreated Palestinian detainees,

but they were all too scared to go

on camera for fear of retribution.

Finally, one doctor who'd been

stationed at Sde Teiman's field

hospital, among others,

agreed to meet on

condition of anonymity.

I remember at least one case

where a very painful procedure

was being done and the patient

got no consent.

Things were not explained

to him in his language,

so he didn't know what was going on.

And, to the best of my knowledge,

no painkillers were administered

to him around that procedure.

And I was there.

I saw that happening,

and I saw him screaming,

and I saw no-one stopping it.

And why do you think

this was happening?

Why weren't they using

anaesthetic on this patient?

Well, I think that was retribution.

Like, that was a way

to inflict pain.

So the scary part is how

I could not recognise that.

When I saw that, and I recognise how

I have normalised the fact that even

those patients are defined

and are called just

by a five-digit number.

They don't have a name,

they don't move.

They are blindfolded, so you do not

look at them in the eyes.

So you're taking a lot

of the humanity and the empathy that

you might feel away.

So there is no doubt that,

in many ways, I am an accomplice,

as well as an Israeli physician,

to how we have been treating Gazans.

Were you given any guidelines,

or were you briefed

about the parameters

within which you could work?

The only guidelines that we see

is about, like, keeping

ourselves anonymous.

Just because they wouldn't

want their names coming out to,

let's say, foreign countries

and foreign journalists just

because they might be liable,

potentially, of w*r crimes.

What happens if you speak out?

Well, I might be

viewed as a traitor.

So in this atmosphere,

where people are scared to speak

out, do you think this

is causing a cover-up?

I don't even think that

in the Israeli society, there

is a need for a cover-up these days.

You can do almost whatever you want

when it comes to Gazans.

Honestly, I think that's how

the Israeli society has been

dehumanising Palestinians for years.

It didn't start on October 7th.

It's nothing new.

The IDF and the Israel Prison

Service did not respond

to the allegation that Israeli

doctors mistreated detainees.

But the IDF said detainees can

request medical care.

Dr Khaled Hamouda had also been

detained at Sde Teiman.

His detention had coincided

with another doctor -

the surgeon from Al-Shifa Hospital,

Adnan Al Bursh.

What was Adnan's state of mind like?

Did he look healthy to you?

In mid-April, Dr Adnan Al Bursh

was transferred to Ofer Prison.

He died on the day of his arrival.

What did you think when you heard

Adnan had died in prison?

Testimony from other prisoners

provided to an Israeli human rights

group describes prison guards

beating Dr Al Bursh and throwing him

to the ground before his death.

The Israel Prison Service says

it is not aware of any

of the claims made in this film,

and the IDF says they act

in accordance with international

law, and the abuse of detainees

is strictly prohibited.

Israeli documents show that

65 Palestinians have died

in its detention since October 2023.

Along with Adnan Al Bursh,

there are at least three other

healthcare workers -

Dr Iyad al-Rantisi,

head of obstetrics at

Kamal Adwan Hospital,

Dr Ziad Al-Dalou from

Al-Shifa Hospital,

and paramedic Hamdan Abu Anaba.

In October 2024, Israeli forces

launched another ground

invasion of northern Gaza.

They issued evacuation orders

to the remaining 400,000

Palestinians and cut

all aid reaching them.

Once again, Kamal Adwan, Al-Awda,

and the Indonesian Hospitals came

under attack, and the UN

Secretary-General warned

the world it needed to act

to prevent ethnic cleansing.

But the plan to clear

northern Gaza was delayed.

The director of Kamal Adwan

Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,

was one of several doctors refusing

to leave his patients.

Here he is standing next

to Dr Mohammed Obeid.

Allahu Akbar.

In late October, following another

raid, an Israeli drone strike

k*lled his son, Ibrahim.

The next day, he spoke

to Al Jazeera.

After more than two

months under attack,

and with the hospital in flames,

it was forced to finally close.

Israel says it detained over

200 militants in the area,

but the hospital says Israel

detained many healthcare workers,

like Dr Abu Safiya.

This is the last time he was seen

in Gaza by his colleagues,

walking towards an Israeli tank.

Dr Abu Safiya was taken

to Sde Teiman, and is now

being held in Ofer Prison.

Israel accuses him of

having a rank in Hamas.

In March 2025, an Israeli

court classified him

as an unlawful combatant,

and ordered his continued

imprisonment without

charge or trial.

His lawyer says he's not a t*rror1st

and that he's been held

in solitary confinement,

shown signs of t*rture,

and denied proper medical care.

Having worked through four

separate hospital sieges,

Dr Mohammed Obeid was taken

by Israeli soldiers

on October 26th, 2024.

He is still being held.

Over a year after his death,

the body of Adnan Al Bursh has not

been returned to his family in Gaza.

After more than six months

in detention, Dr Khaled Al Serr,

the surgeon who stayed

on at Nasser Hospital

through the worst,

returned to his family.

Like all of those doctors we've

spoken to detained by Israel,

he was released without charge.

And like all of those doctors,

Khaled Al Serr says he was tortured.

Dr Al Serr was released a year

after the w*r began.

A w*r in which over 1,500 healthcare

workers have reportedly been k*lled,

including at least 50

highly qualified specialists.

A w*r in which Gaza's healthcare

system has been destroyed.

In May 2025, the IDF struck

the European Hospital,

saying it k*lled Hamas military

chief Mohammed Sinwar.

In June, it issued an edited video

it said showed a tunnel under

the hospital where Sinwar and other

militants died, and gave a media

tour to some journalists.

Also in May, Israeli government

minister Bezalel Smotrich

vowed to destroy Gaza.