In Gaza, the war spares no one, but for children with diabetes the siege has turned life into a daily struggle for survival. With hospitals collapsing, electricity cut, and food supplies disappearing, thousands of young patients are left without insulin, proper nutrition, or even clean water to sustain their fragile bodies.

Ten-year-old Adam injects himself in a crowded shelter, whispering that he fears never waking up. Once cared for at home with his mother’s cooking and regular treatment, he now survives on bread when it can be found, with his father powerless to afford scarce medicines. In another corner of Gaza City, nine-year-old Sara clings to her mother, asking for an apple she cannot have. Her mother admits through tears that she fears losing her at any moment to a sudden drop in blood sugar.

Doctors warn that the lack of insulin and proper storage is a death sentence. “This is a health disaster,” said one medical expert, stressing that without immediate aid, countless children will die unseen. Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirms that nearly half of essential medicines and medical supplies have run out, including more than half of the treatments for chronic diseases such as diabetes and kidney failure.

For these children, life has been reduced to the hope of surviving another day. Their wishes are heartbreakingly simple, an apple, a safe injection, the chance just to live. Yet in Gaza, even these small dreams are being crushed beneath rubble, hunger, and international indifference.