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Sources & Documentation
The evidence gathered on this site does not stand alone. Every claim, every statistic, every documented incident is grounded in a body of verifiable sources — field reports, legal analyses, news articles, investigative journalism, satellite imagery, and eyewitness testimonies. This page provides access to those sources in two forms: a structured spreadsheet of written references, and a curated video playlist documenting events on the ground.
Written sources are organized in a spreadsheet per chapter and subchapters, containing links to written sources drawn from international institutions, human rights organizations, investigative media, and legal bodies. Visual evidence plays a critical role in documenting systematic attacks on healthcare. The curated playlist linked below brings together footage from hospitals, testimony from medical staff, and reports from journalists and aid workers operating under extreme conditions. The videos include documentary segments, news reports, and firsthand testimonies. Viewer discretion is advised — some content depicts destroyed medical infrastructure and accounts of violence against healthcare workers and patients.
Source categories include:
UN & WHO
Official documentation from United Nations bodies, WHO field reports, and interagency humanitarian briefings.
NGO & Human Rights
Reports from organizations such as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and B'Tselem.
News articles
Time-sensitive reporting from verified news outlets covering specific incidents, statements, and developments on the ground as they occurred.
Investigative Media
Long-form journalism, in-depth investigations, and OSINT analyses going beyond daily news coverage to establish broader patterns.
Legal & Academic
International law analyses, academic papers on IHL violations, and court submissions
Testimonies
Firsthand accounts from medical workers, patients, and aid organizations operating on the ground.
A note on methodology
While a lot of evidence is primary rather tha interpretative, like video evidence of destruction of hospitals or satellite images of the trucks denied entry, there will be those that will argue that sources like WHO, MSF, or Human Rights Watch are politically motivated and should be discounted. However, when organizations with competing interests converge on the same findings, that convergence is itself evidence. B'Tselem is Israeli. The ICRC is politically neutral by institutional mandate. MSF has documented abuses by governments on all sides of every conflict it operates in. The sources disagree on much — and agree on this: the violation of international humanitarian law.
Too often, claiming bias is used to dismiss a source without engaging with its specific findings as an avoidance strategy. The credible question should be why the pattern exists, not to disregard the source outright. If a report is wrong, demonstrate it: identify the incorrect facts, the flawed methodology, the correct record. Institutional labelling is not a substitute for factual engagement.
SOURCES PER CHAPTER
01
Medical Apartheid
Unequal medical access and the deadly arithmetic of preventable deaths
02
Over Their Dead Bodies FREE TO READ
03
Health Under Lock and Key
Palestinians held for years without charge, denied treatment, subjected to torture and medical testing
Part II SYSTEMS OF ERASURE
Mapping how violence is enacted on bodies, infrastructure, and daily life — from bombs to blockade, from chronic illness to engineered scarcity. Together, they form a landscape where destruction becomes routine and survival becomes exceptional.
04
Shattered Sanctuaries
The bombing of hospitals, clinics, ambulances and the deliberate erasure of spaces meant for healing
05
When Healing Becomes a Crime
Health workers killed, executed, arrested, interrogated and tortured
06
Cutting the Lifeline
Sabotaging Humanitarian help: from attacks on UNRWA to the GHF death trap
07
Starvation as Weapon of War
Malnutrition's lethal impact and long-term effects
08
Poisoned Wells, Stolen Water
The destruction of water infrastructure and the ripple effect on disease and mortality
09
Born Under Bombs
Pregnancy, birth, and newborns in a world of shattered hospitals and foreclosed futures
10
Engineered Dispair
Psychological scars for life: trauma, depression, and unrelenting fear
11
Dismantling of Life
Life deliberately targeted, the impact of a collapsed health system and how it affects people's ability to live
Part III The Walls of Silence
The role of censorship, propaganda, legal obstruction, and institutional silence to limit information and punish dissent. These walls ensure that injustice continues unchallenged, hidden behind manufactured doubt.
12
Bearing Witness
Silencing the journalists and how foreign doctors have reluctantly become chroniclers of atrocity
13
The Infrastructure of Silence
How bias, censorship, propaganda and limiting free speech has cleared the path for attacks on healthcare
14
The Machinery of Complicity
From weapons delivery to medical professionals, institutions, international bodies and universities that enable abuse through collaboration or silence
15
Intentional and Premeditated
Data, soldier testimonies and Israeli leading voices that show the dismantling of life is planned
16
Responsibility of Accountability
Manufactured impunity and what legal, ethical, and global mechanisms remain to confront crimes committed in plain sight

