The Destruction of Gaza’s Healthcare Infrastructure
Posted by: John Phoenix
Image by Mohammed Ibrahim.
On March 23, 2025, Feroze Sidhwa—a surgeon working in Gaza—posted an urgent update on the social media platform X:
“I was at Nasser Hospital in #Gaza when it was bombed today. One of my patients, a 17-year-old boy, was killed. He would have gone home tomorrow. If I had been changing his dressings, as I planned to this evening, I probably would have been killed too. Attacking hospitals is a war crime, and it needs to stop.”
The attack described by doctor Sidhwa killed at least 2 people, and injured others. And, as Shurafa and Magdy report, “like other medical facilities around Gaza, Nasser Hospital has been damaged by Israeli raids and strikes throughout the war.” Indeed, consider a few more recent headlines ...










