Hospitals across Gaza are on the verge of total collapse as relentless bombardment and blockade leave the healthcare system incapable of meeting even the most basic needs. Medical staff warn that facilities are running at full capacity with no reserves left, forcing doctors to make impossible choices as patients die for lack of treatment.

Hospitals once considered lifelines, including Friends of the Patient, Al-Saraya, Al-Sahaba, and Al-Ahli Al-Arabi, are stretched far beyond their limits, while Al-Shifa, the Strip’s largest medical complex, has been reduced to providing only the bare minimum. Al-Helou Hospital remains under siege with critically ill patients, including children in intensive care, trapped inside. With major roads sealed off and fuel supplies exhausted, ambulances and emergency teams struggle to deliver casualties to overwhelmed wards.

Supplies of blood, medicines, and surgical equipment have virtually disappeared. Doctors face the impossible task of carrying out operations without the tools they need, while shortages of anaesthesia and basic instruments put lives at further risk. Medical teams describe working under constant fear of direct attacks, as hospitals themselves have been repeatedly bombed and raided. Many staff have fled, leaving those who remain to shoulder unbearable pressure.

The health system is now in a state of unprecedented emergency. With airstrikes damaging hospital buildings and ongoing ground operations surrounding key facilities, the survival of thousands of patients depends on immediate international intervention. Without urgent deliveries of medicines, surgical supplies, and fuel, Gaza’s hospitals risk collapsing completely, turning an already dire humanitarian crisis into a catastrophe beyond measure.