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When Healthcare Becomes a Target: Israel’s War on the Right to Life in Gaza

 



✍️ By Malik Mukhtar
📍ainnbeen.blogspot.com
📄 Based on the PHRI Report: Read full PDF


“This is not war. This is annihilationscalpel by scalpel, breath by breath, denial by design.”

In a shattering report released by Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), the unthinkable is now documented in clinical, legal, and humanitarian terms: Israel is deliberately dismantling Gaza’s ability to survive. Not through bombs alone, but through the systematic destruction of healthcare, human infrastructure, and hope.

This is not conjecture. This is genocide — as defined by international law, witnessed by Israeli physicians, and enacted in cold daylight.

📉 Anatomy of a Genocide

The 65-page PHRI report does not deal in abstract moral outrage. It presents a chilling legal-medical case grounded in Article II(c) of the Genocide Convention: “Deliberately inflicting on a group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.

And those conditions are now Gaza’s everyday reality:

  • Dozens of hospitals flattened
  • Newborns dying without incubators
  • Cancer patients left to rot without medication
  • Surgeons forced to operate without anesthesia
  • Children dying not from shrapnel, but from untreated infections and dehydration

This isn’t collateral damage. This is policy.

⚰️ “Kill the Body Slowly”

What Israel’s military didn’t reduce to rubble, its siege starved of fuel, oxygen, equipment, and personnel. It was not enough to bomb hospitals. The aim was to ensure they could never rise again.

Doctors recount patients screaming as amputations are performed without anesthesia. Nurses dying of hunger while tending to the wounded. Babies gasping for air as oxygen runs out — because trucks were blocked at the crossings.

The body of Gaza is not just being bombed. It is being bled dry, organ by organ.

🧾 A Government Strategy, Not a Battlefield Error

The report draws a devastating line between military tactics and genocidal intent. Every time Israeli officials claim they're targeting Hamas, the evidence suggests otherwise. What is being dismantled is not a militia — it’s a civilian society’s ability to breathe, heal, and endure.

This is a war against resilience. A medical purge. A slow, calculated execution masked as security.

⚖️ The Law Speaks — But Will the World?

PHRI’s findings reinforce growing legal consensus: what’s unfolding in Gaza meets the definition of genocide.

They are not alone. B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Court of Justice have all raised red flags.

Yet world leaders still debate "intent" while Gaza's children choke in the dust of their crumbled hospitals.


🚨 Silence Now Is Complicity Forever

This report should be a turning point. If Israeli physicians — those who once served both Palestinian and Israeli patients — are now documenting genocide, what excuse remains?

To remain silent is to join the crime.

We must amplify this truth. Demand accountability. And remember that even in war, the right to life — to heal, to be treated, to survive — is not negotiable.




🔥 Selected Quotes from the PHRI Report:

🩸 The healthcare system in Gaza has not merely collapsed — it has been systematically dismantled by deliberate Israeli action.”

💀 “The destruction of hospitals, denial of humanitarian aid, and obstruction of life-saving treatment are not side-effects of war. They are methods of war.”

🚫 “By denying Gaza the conditions necessary for life food, water, medicine, power — Israel is enacting a policy of biological erasure.”

⚖️ “What we are witnessing is the deliberate infliction of life-threatening conditions on a national group which falls squarely within the legal definition of genocide.”

🧬 “Genocide is not only a matter of intent — it is a matter of method. The method here is the denial of healthcare, fuel, and oxygen to 2.2 million people.”

🗣️ This is a war not only on bodies ok I'll but on breath, on blood, on survival itself.”

👁️ The international community’s failure to stop this ongoing crime turns silence into complicity.”


🔗 Read the Full Report (PHRI): Genocide in Gaza – PHRI, July 2025 (PDF)
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