Palestinian doctors, nurses, paramedics, aid workers, rescue workers, humanitarian workers, and journalists in Gaza, have all been targeted under Israel's occupation since October 2023.

We have seen the deliberate targeting of medical facilities and hospitals and the deliberate sabotage of medical equipment. We witnessed the IDF storming into hospitals and claiming to find a terrorist roster, which turned out to be a shift calendar for the hospital staff. The world unilaterally condemned Israel for lying about the summary murder of 15 rescue workers and paramedics in Rafah on 21 March 2025, (Amnesty International) when a joint rescue mission had gone into the area to assist a number of wounded people including a Palestinian Red Crescent Society medic. The 15 aid workers were discovered on 30 March 2025 in a mass grave along with rescue vehicles after 9 days of searching. Israel claimed "its troops opened fire on vehicles it deemed “suspicious”, acknowledging that they had shot at Palestinian ambulances and fire trucks. Israeli forces had been in full control of the area at the time."   

More than 270 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israel in 22 months of war - 13 journalists every month. On 25 August 2025, Israel attacked Nasser Hospital (Al Jazeera) killing 21 people including 5 journalists as well as medics and rescue workers in a "double-tap" attack. This is where one strike is followed shortly after by a second strike, calculated to kill responders to the first strike. 

"According to Brown University, more journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war began on October 7, 2023, than in the US Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan – combined." (Al Jazeera.com - Aug 2025 )

Over 1500 health care workers have been killed in Gaza since October 2023 (OCHA). American and British doctors volunteering in Gaza have spoken of their Palestinian colleagues' bravery, commitment, and resilience.

On 2 Oct 2024, 99 American doctors, nurses, and midwives who had volunteered in Gaza since the conflict began in Oct 2023, wrote a letter to US president Biden urging him to appeal to Israel to stop and raising the plight of the Gazan population and Palestinian healthcare workers:
"As we met our healthcare colleagues in Gaza it was clear that they were malnourished, and both physically and mentally devastated. We quickly learned that our Palestinian healthcare colleagues were among the most traumatized people in Gaza, and perhaps in the entire world. Like virtually all people in Gaza they had lost family members and their homes. Most lived in and around their hospitals with their surviving family in unimaginable conditions. Although they continued working a grueling 
schedule, they had not been paid since October 7. All were acutely aware that their work as healthcare providers had marked them as targets for Israel. This makes a mockery of the protected status hospitals and healthcare providers are granted under the oldest and most widely accepted provisions of International Humanitarian Law."

This is a call to recognise the selfless sacrifice and courageous dedication of Palestinians working on the ground to treat the sick and injured, and to document the continued suffering of the Palestinian people and the war crimes enacted on them, so that their voices might be heard above the silence of the Western media.

These ordinary Palestinians have displayed immense and often superhuman qualities and they should rightly be recognised for their sacrifices. Please award them the Nobel Peace Prize, it is the least they deserve.