The health situation in Gaza has plunged to its lowest point since the start of the war nearly two years ago. Hospitals across the Strip are collapsing under relentless bombardment, with bed occupancy reaching more than double capacity and doctors warning that the system is on the verge of total breakdown.

Medical staff face a devastating shortage of essential drugs and supplies, with more than 60% of emergency medicines and operating room consumables depleted. Laboratories, the backbone of any hospital system, have been crippled by the lack of blood testing kits, salts, virus tests and basic diagnostic tools. Without them, infections spread unchecked, wounds go untreated, and amputations rise sharply.

The crisis is compounded by a severe scarcity of blood units and plasma, leaving the injured and chronically ill without vital transfusions. Starvation and malnutrition deaths continue to mount, and with the blockade still preventing critical supplies from entering, international stockpiles sit unused just across Gaza’s borders.

Doctors warn that without immediate intervention to allow medical supplies in, thousands more lives will be lost, not to bombs or bullets, but to treatable wounds and preventable diseases. Gaza’s hospitals, once the last line of survival, are now themselves gasping for life.