Intent to Destroy: Documenting a Year of Israel’s Attacks on Health in Gaza

Article by Yara M. Asi argues that Israel’s war on Gaza has deliberately targeted the territory’s health infrastructure and destroyed the social conditions necessary for public health, resulting in the near-total collapse of Gaza’s health system. It contends that Israel’s blockade, bombardment of hospitals, obstruction of aid, and killing and detention of medical workers constitute a systematic war on health care, amounting to a violation of international humanitarian law and placing an entire civilian population under conditions of starvation, disease, and medical neglect.