Israel’s more than two-year genocidal war has shattered Gaza‘s health system, as hospitals and the medical personnel who tend to the thousands of wounded patients inside them continue to be targeted by Israeli attacks.According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, more than 1,700 healthcare workers – including doctors, nurses and paramedics – have been killed since Israel’s war on Gaza began. The United Nations has accused Israel of deliberately targeting Gaza’s health facilities and killing medical personnel to destroy the besieged enclave’s healthcare system.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIsrael continues to block essential medical supplies and equipment despite the month-old ceasefire agreement.Supporting Gaza’s decimated health system, medical students have become front-line healers, performing lifesaving work even before they have earned their degrees.They are filling the void left by the many doctors who have been killed, and by others left exhausted from round-the-clock shifts to treat the many wounded under severely dangerous and resource-depleted conditions.“The war in Gaza has rewritten the rules of learning, of healing, and of growing up”, including for “Eman Eyad, a medical student who became a doctor in the heart of a war zone,” said Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza.Eyad had been completing her medical studies at the Islamic University – until Israel destroyed and bombed it on October 10, 2023.“But even without walls and without books, Eyad’s education continued,” said Abu Azzoum. Palestinian medical student Eman Eyad tends to a patient [Screen grab/Al Jazeera]“I get more experience, I can deal with 10 patients in one day, or …
