health care

Dialysis patient Basel Al-Dahdouh in his family's tent on Al-Shuhada Street in central Gaza City, August 13, 2026. (Hussain Al-Jerjawi)

Gaza’s sick wait for treatment that may never come

As medicine runs out under Israel's blockade and care is routinely disrupted, dialysis and cancer patients in the enclave are left to die slowly.

By Ahmed Dremly August 14, 2026

An Israeli soldier stands next to an ambulance after the army curfew was lifted for three hours, in the southern neighborhoods of the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), January 21, 2026. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

Israel’s roadblocks are choking emergency care in the West Bank

With proliferating closures, checkpoints, and settler attacks, Palestinian medics say routine ambulance journeys have become life-or-death ordeals.

By Shatha Yaish August 13, 2026

Newborn babies receive treatment in the neonatal intensive care unit at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, January 18, 2026. (Khalil Kahlout/Flash90)

‘Lives cut short’: Gaza’s surging miscarriage crisis

Pregnancy losses more than tripled in the first half of this year, as conditions continue to deteriorate amid Israel's bombardment and siege.

By Ruwaida Amer August 3, 2026

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Palestinian child suffering from skin infections and severe malnutrition receives treatment at Al-Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 12, 2026. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

Rats, raw sewage, skin diseases: Israel’s siege is ravaging Gaza’s displaced

As Israel continues to restrict aid, Gaza’s shattered health system is struggling to treat and contain illnesses spreading through overcrowded tent camps.

By Ahmed Dremly and Ibtisam Mahdi May 29, 2026

Doctors warn of shortage of hospital equipment, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, April 18, 2026. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

‘As doctors, we are effectively blinded’: Inside Gaza’s MRI crisis

With all machines destroyed or rendered useless by Israel's siege, we cannot diagnose our patients, forced instead to practice a desperate form of triage.

By Jinin Rummaneh May 14, 2026

Palestinian patients wait in the grounds of the Red Crescent Hospital to be evacuated from the Gaza Strip via the Rafah Crossing with Egypt for medical treatment abroad, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, February 2, 2026. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘I would never do it again’: Inside the struggle to enter and leave Gaza

A trickle of Palestinians have passed through Rafah Crossing since its partial reopening. Those returning face intimidation by Israeli soldiers and the Abu Shabab gang, as well as the confiscation of their belongings.

By Ruwaida Amer February 13, 2026

Assad Abdeen carries the body of his one-month-old son, Saeed, who died of cold exposure, in Al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, December 18, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

‘Wet tent syndrome’ is killing Gaza’s infants

Israel’s restrictions on shelter and medicine have left displaced families helpless as newborns succumb to exposure and preventable disease.

By Michal Feldon January 26, 2026

World Food Programme (WFP) provides food parcels to displaced people in Gaza City, October 23, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Despite ceasefire, Israel’s siege allowing only a trickle of aid into Gaza

Palestinians report a dire lack of healthy food, medicine, and winter shelter, while a new ban on humanitarian groups will push the enclave to the brink.

By Ahmed Dremly January 22, 2026

A photo of Dr. Omar Ammar, held by his wife during a video call with the author. (Screenshot)

The Gazan doctors still languishing in Israeli prisons

While some were released in the ceasefire, Israel still holds 80 Palestinian medical workers without charge. Their families are demanding their freedom.

By Michal Feldon November 20, 2025

The uncle of three-month-old Fadi Al-Najjar holds his body after he died of malnutrition, at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, July 19, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

‘Death has more dignity than this life’: Israel’s starvation campaign ravages Gaza

The cries of hungry children echo through tent camps in Gaza City, with over 50 Palestinians in the enclave starving to death in the past five days alone.

By Ahmed Dremly July 25, 2025

A sit-in protest in Hebron in front of the headquarters of the International Red Cross Committee against the arrest of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and the targeting of medical personnel in the Gaza Strip, Jan. 9, 2025. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip,’ says lawyer

Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.

By Shatha Yaish July 22, 2025

Palestinians who were injured from Israeli airstrikes on the town of Bani Suhaila arrive at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘I operated on more children in Gaza in one night than I do in the U.S. in a year’

American surgeon Feroze Sidhwa has volunteered in war zones around the world. But nothing prepared him for Israel bombing his hospital in Gaza.

By Michal Feldon April 9, 2025

Wounded Palestinians crowd the floors of Nasser Hospital after the bombing of a residential area near a school sheltering a large number of displaced people, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, December 3, 2023. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills)

In Gaza’s devastated hospitals, treatable patients face ‘slow, quiet death’

Bleeding out from moderate shrapnel wounds. Dying from illnesses doctors don’t have time to treat. Going blind waiting for medical evacuation abroad. These are the manifold victims of Israel's war on Gaza's health system.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha April 3, 2025