Gaza’s Health System on the Brink as “American Aid Massacres” Continue

The director of Al-Awda Hospital, Dr Marwan Abu Nasser, has warned of an escalating medical catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli attacks on Palestinians attempting to access aid deepen the collapse of an already shattered healthcare system.

Speaking from the heart of Gaza’s central corridor, Dr Abu Nasser described the repeated targeting of civilians at aid drop sites as “daily massacres,” blaming the so-called humanitarian operation jointly managed by the United States and Israel. “What’s happening near the Nitzarim corridor isn’t aid, it’s a death trap,” he said. “Most of the casualties we receive are not just hungry, they are bleeding, struck while trying to survive.”

Al-Awda Hospital, one of the few facilities still functioning in central Gaza, is overwhelmed. Stretchers line the corridors, surgeries are performed without anaesthesia, and patients are treated under torchlight due to the fuel crisis. Some are transferred to nearby hospitals, but most never make it.

The controversial “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” which oversees these operations, was recently dissolved by Swiss authorities following international outcry over its alleged complicity in war crimes. With no UN oversight, the aid process remains militarised, chaotic, and deadly.

Doctors are now warning that Gaza’s health system has all but collapsed: antibiotics are gone, generators have failed, and ambulances have been bombed. “We are working in ruins, but we have no choice,” said Dr Abu Nasser. “Our duty to our people will not be abandoned, even in genocide.”

Children are especially vulnerable. In overcrowded tents and baking summer heat, malnutrition and disease spread rapidly. Cases of meningitis among children are rising, a grim symptom of Gaza’s descent into humanitarian freefall.

Maternity care is no exception. UNRWA’s cut to maternity funding in April forced Al-Awda to launch an emergency field unit to protect newborns from a future that now feels increasingly uncertain.

Over 94% of Gaza’s hospitals have been destroyed. More than 1,500 health workers have been killed, and hundreds remain detained or missing. And still, the world remains largely unmoved. “We are bleeding,” Dr Abu Nasser said. “And no one is stopping the blade.”

Source : Safa News