Gaza’s health system is spiralling toward total collapse. In just three days, hospitals across the besieged territory may be forced to shut down as fuel supplies dwindle to nothing. With no electricity, neonatal incubators, ventilators, emergency rooms, and intensive care units will go dark—leaving thousands without life-saving care.

The Ministry of Health has sounded the alarm, blaming the deepening crisis on the Israeli blockade that has sealed Gaza’s borders and cut off humanitarian aid since March 2. Fuel reserves remain inaccessible, stranded in areas declared “red zones” by Israel, off-limits even to UN and international agencies.

At the Kuwait Specialized Hospital in Rafah, the situation is already desperate. Over 75% of essential medicines are unavailable, and doctors are running out of options for treating the wounded, the sick, and the starving. Their warning is stark: the health system is on the verge of collapse.

Since the start of Israel’s military campaign in October 2023, more than 170,000 Palestinians have been killed, the vast majority women and children. Entire neighbourhoods have been reduced to rubble. Now, as fuel runs out, a secondary wave of death threatens to sweep through Gaza—not from bombs, but from the cold, preventable failure of its health infrastructure.

This is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made calamity unfolding in real time. And unless the world acts now to restore fuel access and medical aid, thousands more will die—not in combat, but in silence, under flickering hospital lights that are about to go out forever.