GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Mohammed Abu Salmiya, Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, stated that hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are now entirely out of service. There is no medical facility operating at full capacity across the region, despite the continuous and increasing number of wounded and injured people arriving—on a daily, even momentary, basis.
Abu Salmiya added in a statement on Monday that the occupation army has destroyed a significant portion of the Strip’s hospitals since the beginning of the war. In recent days, it has completed what it began by targeting the remaining ones, in the absence of any protection for healthcare facilities and medical personnel.
Abu Salmiya pointed out that dozens of cancer patients are dying daily due to the inability to receive treatment—either because hospitals have been destroyed or because of severe shortages in medicines and medical supplies—affirming that the situation has become catastrophic by all measures.
He noted that the attacks have not been limited to hospitals and health centers but have also targeted medicine warehouses, describing it as a “systematic campaign” to dismantle the entire healthcare system in Gaza and strip civilians of their right to treatment and survival.
The Indonesian Hospital has completely gone out of service after the Israeli occupation army intensified its siege on the facility, preventing the arrival of patients, medical staff, and supplies, all under heavy fire cover.
Last Tuesday, heavy shelling targeting the European Gaza Hospital and its surroundings in Khan Yunis led to the death of 34 civilians and halted all the specialized services it once provided, such as neurosurgery and cardiac catheterization.
Most hospitals in Gaza and the northern Strip are now out of service amid the systematic destruction of the healthcare system and the lack of alternatives, as the number of injured and sick continues to rise daily. There is a complete shortage of medical supplies and medications, while some remaining health centers operate with limited capacity and under extremely harsh humanitarian conditions.
Israel continues to directly target medical facilities, storm hospitals, and arrest medical staff and patients in blatant violation of all international laws. Officials in the Ministry of Health hold Israel and the international community fully responsible for the collapse of the health system in Gaza.
