GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Ministry of Health in Gaza has issued an urgent warning that hundreds of patients and wounded civilians are being denied critical medical treatment due to the ongoing Israeli blockade, which continues to prevent the entry of essential medical supplies.
In a statement released Wednesday, the ministry described the health situation in northern Gaza as “catastrophic,” confirming that all hospitals in that region are now out of service. The remaining facilities elsewhere in the Strip are on the verge of collapse, besieged by what officials called “suffocating crises” that have crippled their ability to provide healthcare.
According to the ministry, hospitals are severely overcrowded, amid severe exhaustion of resources in the few functioning medical departments and Israeli refusal to allow the entry of life-saving medical supplies.
“Even emergency measures are now futile as the humanitarian and medical indicators have deteriorated beyond repair,” the ministry said.
The ministry renewed an urgent appeal to international agencies and humanitarian actors to intervene immediately to prevent the total collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system.
This medical and healthcare crisis comes as part of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, now in its ninth month, which has devastated infrastructure and left the civilian population — particularly the sick and wounded — facing immense suffering and heightened risk of death.
