Gaza’s medical students help health system decimated by Israel’s war

The UN says Israel has deliberately been targeting Gaza’s health facilities and killing medical personnel.

Israel’s more than two-year genocidal war has shattered Gaza‘s health system, as hospitals and the medical personnel who tend to the thousands of wounded patients inside them continue to be targeted by Israeli attacks.

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, more than 1,700 healthcare workers – including doctors, nurses and paramedics – have been killed since Israel’s war on Gaza began. The United Nations has accused Israel of deliberately targeting Gaza’s health facilities and killing medical personnel to destroy the besieged enclave’s healthcare system.

Israel continues to block essential medical supplies and equipment despite the month-old ceasefire agreement.

Supporting Gaza’s decimated health system, medical students have become front-line healers, performing lifesaving work even before they have earned their degrees.

They are filling the void left by the many doctors who have been killed, and by others left exhausted from round-the-clock shifts to treat the many wounded under severely dangerous and resource-depleted conditions.