The World Health Organization has warned that more than 15,000 patients in Gaza are in desperate need of evacuation for life-saving treatment, as the enclave’s healthcare system lies in ruins after months of genocidal war. With hospitals reduced to rubble and medical supplies nearly exhausted, the Strip has become a place where illness too often means a death sentence.

Medical corridors that once allowed limited evacuations remain sealed, leaving thousands of wounded and chronically ill Palestinians without hope of care. Doctors describe operating without anaesthetics, sterilisation tools, or electricity. Infectious diseases are spreading rapidly through overcrowded shelters, while malnutrition and contaminated water compound the crisis.

The WHO estimates that more than 15,000 people have been permanently disabled or have lost limbs since the war began, and many require urgent rehabilitation that Gaza can no longer provide. Health workers warn that without immediate international intervention, preventable deaths will multiply.

Gaza’s hospitals, once places of healing, have become silent monuments to resilience, doctors still treating the wounded by torchlight, mothers praying outside ruined wards, and patients waiting endlessly for a corridor that never opens. The world, the organisation said, must act now, before hope itself runs out.