Gaza’s largest medical facility, Al-Shifa Hospital, is facing total shutdown within hours due to an acute fuel shortage, placing the lives of hundreds of patients in immediate danger. The health sector, already devastated by months of Israeli bombardment and blockade, is now teetering on the brink of complete collapse.

Medical staff issued urgent appeals on Wednesday as fuel reserves reached zero. Without emergency intervention, neonatal incubators, intensive care units, and dialysis machines will fall silent. Doctors warn that more than a hundred premature babies, dozens of critical care patients, and hundreds relying on dialysis are at risk of dying within hours.

Operating theatres have already halted surgeries. The dialysis unit has ceased functioning. Oxygen supplies are running dry. In a hospital overwhelmed by war injuries and disease outbreaks, staff can do little more than wait for the lights to go out.

What remains of Gaza’s healthcare system is collapsing under the weight of deliberate siege tactics. Fuel, when allowed in, is rationed in amounts far below minimum needs, used as a weapon of control. As water supplies vanish and disease spreads, hospitals are turning into places where the sick come not for healing, but to die.

Gaza’s doctors are no longer asking for help, they are pleading for the world to act before the silence of generators becomes the silence of lives extinguished.