Gaza’s doctors are now fighting two wars one against Israel’s bombs, the other against its suffocating siege. With medical supplies blocked since March, hospitals have become graveyards for the living. Patients who survived airstrikes now perish from treatable conditions, their medicines locked beyond checkpoints as Israel tightens its grip.  

Cardiac wards sit silent. Cancer treatments are abandoned mid-course. Chronic disease patients ration expired pills. Even pain relief has vanished. "We watch people die slowly," says Dr. Zakaria Abu Qamar of Gaza’s Health Ministry. "Not from their wounds, but from the world’s deliberate refusal to let them heal."  

The numbers tell only half the story 43% of essential drugs gone, 64% of disposables exhausted. The rest is written in the faces of children waiting for chemotherapy that never comes, of elders gasping without oxygen, of surgeons operating by phone light as generators fail.  

Airstrikes have torched what little remained. Warehouses lie in rubble. Aid convoys rot at the border, their contents three months out of date now useless. Gaza needs $4 million a month just to keep hospitals functioning. Instead, it gets more bombs, more promises broken, more silent deaths in wards where hope was once a medicine in itself.  

For 20 months, the world has watched. For 20 months, Israel has tightened the noose. Now Gaza’s medical system breathes its last not with a bang, but with the whimper of an IV drip running dry.