A lack of essential medical equipment and supplies means that many Palestinian patients have to wait for days for critical surgeries.
As medical staff work on very little food and with insufficient supplies, near-daily mass casualty incidents continue in Gaza—further overwhelming the health care system. After nearly two years of war and amid Israel’s punishing siege, not a single hospital in the Gaza Strip is currently fully functional.
“The health system is overwhelmed and it's collapsing,” said Dr. Mohammed Fadlalla, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) medical activity manager. “As we speak, it's collapsing.”
