Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa Medical Complex, has been forced to suspend all dialysis services due to a critical fuel shortage, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday. Once a lifeline for patients with kidney failure, the hospital is now barely able to sustain its intensive care units for just a few hours each day.

The Ministry warned that the ongoing fuel crisis, a result of Israel’s continued blockade and restrictions, poses an immediate and deadly threat to patients across Gaza. Without power, life-saving machines fall silent, and medical teams are left powerless to treat even the most vulnerable.

"The fuel shortage is not an accident, it is part of a deliberate policy that is destroying Gaza’s health system from within," the Ministry stated. It called on international organisations to act without delay, urging them to deliver fuel and essential medical supplies before more lives are lost.

Hospitals throughout the Strip are already overwhelmed by the wounded and chronically ill, operating under extreme pressure with little to no resources. With every passing hour, the health system inches closer to total collapse, leaving patients to suffer, and die, in silence.