09/10/2026
The escalating official and media campaign of Israeli incitement against hospitals and medical centres in the Gaza Strip is paving the way for attacks on the healthcare facilities that remain. It seeks to deprive Palestinians of any chance of survival and to continue subjecting them to living conditions that lead to their destruction.
Using unsubstantiated claims to justify such attacks, after three years of systematically destroying the healthcare system, signals an insistence on continuing the genocide by preventing the restoration of services essential to people’s survival and eliminating the capacity to save the wounded and treat patients.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is following with grave concern the threats issued by the Israeli army on 6 October. In a video statement, the army claimed that “Hamas continues to exploit civilian centres and infrastructure for its terrorist purposes, especially hospitals and medical facilities”, but provided no evidence to support these allegations.
This repeats the approach the Israeli army has followed since the beginning of the genocide: pre-emptively attacking hospitals while making undocumented accusations linking them to military activity. It then uses those accusations as a pretext to bomb, raid, and disable hospitals, presenting the systematic destruction of healthcare as operations against military targets, even as the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip can no longer withstand further attacks or disruption.
Over the past two days, the Israeli army published six messages inciting against hospitals and medical centres in Gaza, including a post with a video on Wednesday. It claimed to have tracked two people allegedly affiliated with Hamas leaving Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. According to the army, one of them transferred explosive devices from inside the hospital and planted them near the Yellow Line to target its forces.
The published footage does not provide enough evidence to substantiate the army’s account. It neither identifies the location of the person shown near the rubble or his connection to Kamal Adwan Hospital, nor shows him leaving the hospital or carrying devices out of it.
