Palestinian International Organization for Peace and Human Rights

May 18, 2025

What happened?

A report dated May 18, 2025, stated that the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip were subjected to gunfire and attacks in their vicinity, leading to difficulties in entering, exiting, and continuing treatment.

Impact of the incident on civilians

When patients and medical staff cannot reach medical facilities, treatable injuries become more serious, and ambulance and medical evacuation operations are affected.

Protecting Medical Care

Medical facilities and healthcare workers must be respected, and their humanitarian functions protected, in armed conflicts. The right to health also includes access to treatment, medicines, and preventative care without discrimination.

What is needed to protect the population?

These developments necessitate careful monitoring of the facts related to the issue of “the siege of the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital hindering services in northern Gaza”, making information available to the affected families, providing means of treatment, relief or redress according to the nature of the damage, and distinguishing between proven information and the legal characterization that requires a competent investigation.

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