Gaza’s healthcare system is being dismantled before the world’s eyes. According to Dr Marwan Al-Hams, Head of Field Hospitals at the Ministry of Health in Gaza, 90% of medical facilities in Gaza City and the northern Strip are now out of service, following relentless Israeli bombardment and siege.

Hospitals once considered sanctuaries—Indonesian, Kamal Adwan, and now Al-Awda—have been deliberately targeted. Al-Hams confirmed that Thursday’s direct strike on the reception wing of Al-Awda marked the final blow to northern Gaza’s healthcare, leaving a population of hundreds of thousands without access to even basic medical care.

"This is not collateral damage," he said. "This is a calculated campaign to erase humanitarian infrastructure and force mass displacement by denying people their right to health and survival." The targeting of doctors, ambulances, and medical warehouses has led to what health officials describe as a deliberate policy of depopulation through humanitarian collapse.

Rafat Al-Majdalawi, Head of the Al-Awda Medical Association, added that over 80% of Gaza’s health system is now disabled, and 95% of primary care centres have been destroyed. "This isn’t a crisis," he warned. "It’s the deliberate execution of a healthcare system under occupation."

Israel justifies these attacks by citing unproven claims that hospitals are being used by armed groups—assertions repeatedly contradicted by independent investigations. Meanwhile, civilians in Gaza are left with no safe space, no medicine, and no doctors. A joint statement from 80 countries on Thursday warned that Gaza now faces the worst humanitarian crisis since the beginning of the war, with famine and mass casualties looming.

The destruction of hospitals is not just a war crime—it is a moral collapse of the international system that allows it to happen. If the world continues to treat Gaza’s children, doctors, and patients as expendable, then the very idea of international law will burn with the last remaining hospital.