Gaza’s Ministry of Health has issued a stark warning: the Strip’s hospitals are teetering on the edge of collapse as critical fuel shortages push patients and medical staff into an unfolding catastrophe. With barely enough fuel to run essential generators, doctors are being forced to choose who lives and who dies.

In makeshift wards dimmed by austerity, dialysis sessions are suspended, ambulances have stalled, and families are left to carry their wounded in donkey carts. Intensive care units, lifelines for the critically ill, now operate on hour-to-hour hope, with patients tethered to machines that may shut down at any moment.

The ministry reports that the trickle of fuel entering Gaza is a cruel illusion of relief,  far from enough to sustain the system. Hospitals have begun slashing services, rationing electricity, and delaying treatments that cannot wait. Medical teams are stretched beyond human limits, treating waves of patients with fading equipment and no certainty of power.

This is not a natural disaster, but a manufactured one. A policy of siege that turns medicine into a privilege and survival into a gamble. The Ministry of Health has called on international bodies to act now, before Gaza’s hospitals become tombs, and silence replaces the sound of breathing machines.