Last Saturday, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian residents in the village of Beita, near Nablus, hurling rocks and firing live ammunition. Among the wounded were journalists, volunteers, activists, and even paramedics - people whose job is to save lives and who instead came

Dr. Mosaab Samaan is a physician at Al-Aqsa Hospital who was arrested on February 16, 2024, from Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis. During PHRI's latest lawyer visit, Dr. Simaan attested that as of June 26, 2025, when his last court hearing occurred, he has no criminal charges

Today, the Israeli court ruled to extend the detention of Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan #🩺Hospital, who was arrested in December 2024 and is being held in Israel without any charges. This comes despite the end of the war and despite the promise of his release. -

If the past two years have highlighted a single value, it is the sanctity of life. We learned this through the pain of the October 7th Hamas attacks. We experienced it in full force due to the pain over the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, which Israel has implemented

Gaza City is facing total medical collapse. The only hospitals still functioning—al-Shifa, al-Quds, and al-Ahli—are overwhelmed far beyond capacity and critically short of medications, supplies, and fuel needed to power incubators, ventilators, and ambulances. Inside the

Severe shock and outrage followed the murder of six members of Dr. Mohmad Abu Salmiya’s family, the director of al-Shifa Hospital. Among those killed were his brother, wife, and two nephews. Seven other relatives, including his sister and her children, were injured. Reports also

We demand the immediate release of all Palestinian healthcare workers detained unlawfully by Israel. Their detention serves no justice and directly undermines the right to health for the Palestinian population. It is imperative that the international community act to ensure their

Six months have passed since the publishing of our report, which documented the arbitrary detention of more than 100 medical personnel from Gaza. Since the report’s publication, our organization has visited more than 25 of them and gathered additional testimonies about ongoing

Dr. Abu Safiya requested to be examined by a doctor because of Scabies and heart problems, but his request was ignored. He takes regular medication for high blood pressure, but he testified that he has not been examined by an IPS doctor since his arrest. He has remained in the

Dr. Abu Safiya described the violence perpetrated by prison guards during frequent cell searches. According to him, detainees receive very small amounts of food, many of them have lost a significant amount of weight, and they have been held in dirty clothes for months.

During our successfully conducted visit today to Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was arrested in December 2024 and remains incarcerated in Israel, a serious and alarming picture emerged. Since his arrest, Dr. Abu Safiya has lost approximately 25

❗️Trigger warning: We discuss difficult issues, including attacks on hospitals, starvation, and the targeting of medical workers.

New episode of Diagnosing the Barriers is now on Spotify and Apple Music. In this episode, we sit down with Tirza Leibowitz, Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, to talk about PHRI’s groundbreaking report “Genocide in Gaza.” https://t.co/GrsqQH2rTw

Amid the unprecedented wave of attacks on Gaza, the Palestinian Health Ministry has issued urgent warnings of a critical shortage of blood, transfusion supplies, and laboratory testing equipment. It further reported that in the past 24 hours, more than 58 people have been killed

"The new healthcare regulations most clearly and directly harm the health rights of status-less children in Israel. But the regulations also damage the public healthcare system as a whole. Without access to routine community-based care, patients inevitably arrive at emergency

Dozens of police vehicles and hundreds of officers stormed the unrecognized Bedouin village of Qasr al-Sir, bringing bulldozers to demolish residents’ homes. This is not an isolated incident: for months, we have monitored the community’s struggle as they endure demolition after

“Think about how you feel as a parent when your child has a fever. Now imagine being prevented from taking your child to a doctor. I cannot understand how external considerations have infiltrated the healthcare system in ways that endanger people’s health, especially that of

📌Over the past year, new healthcare regulations have been introduced for asylum seekers and status-less children. As a result, many, especially children, have suffered severe harm after losing access to healthcare. Countless status-less children are now excluded from the public

"We want our children to have a better life than we did. But instead, we are pushed further and further to the margins. We’re already segregated in the education system, and now in the healthcare system as well. If a child is sick—how can you deny them medical care?" – Amnet,

“With children, any illness must be treated as an emergency, because it can quickly escalate into one. - Without proper care, they will eventually need more expensive treatments, with lower chances of success. Developmental issues are often first identified at family care