Life-saving supplies for infants and young children remain stuck at Gaza’s sealed crossings, deepening the humanitarian collapse that has persisted throughout the genocidal war. More than a million infants and toddlers are now growing up in conditions where even basic nourishment is treated as a privilege rather than a right. Large quantities of ready-to-use formula and medical equipment have been prevented from entering the territory for months, leaving families scrambling to keep their children alive with whatever improvised alternatives they can find.

Although the quantity of aid trucks entering Gaza has increased lately, those rises are overshadowed by the systematic withholding of critical items such as formula, medical kits, power units, and water-purification materials. Health workers say that without these essentials, the situation of malnourished and sick children is deteriorating far more quickly than expected. Vaccination teams have tried to restart routine immunisations for thousands of children who have missed two years of healthcare due to the genocidal war, but even these efforts struggle against shortages of basic equipment and the constant unpredictability of access.

Inside Gaza’s overwhelmed health facilities, shortages have reached alarming levels, with stocks of medicines, medical materials, and laboratory supplies falling to historic lows. Doctors warn that children who could easily have been treated under normal circumstances are now at risk of lifelong harm, or worse, simply because vital tools are not allowed in. They stress that unless all essential supplies are permitted to enter continuously and without political conditions, preventable deaths will continue to rise, and families already battered by the war will face yet another season of despair.