In Gaza, the flicker of hospital lights has become a countdown to death. With fuel supplies exhausted and power outages now widespread, the Strip’s few remaining medical facilities are crumbling, not from bombs this time, but from deliberate neglect.

Doctors at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Gaza’s largest hospital, warn of a catastrophic collapse. “We have no electricity. The machines are silent. The incubators are warm with death,” said Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya. Over a hundred premature babies, intensive care patients, and those reliant on dialysis are left to fate. “If Al-Shifa closes,” he said, “there is no plan B. There is only mourning.”

Oxygen stations have ceased, surgeries halted, and water shortages have rendered sanitation impossible. In these conditions, hospitals become not places of healing, but of helplessness. “The health system is breathing its last,” said Dr. Marwan al-Hams, “and we are watching it die.”

This is not a natural disaster. It is the calculated result of a siege. Since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023, over 194,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured. Now, the war continues in the shadows, through famine, disease, and the cold silence of machinery without power.

The world remains largely unmoved, but in Gaza’s darkened wards, death advances quietly, not with explosions, but on the wings of silence.