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Gaza's main hospitals face imminent shutdown amid Israeli blockade

Iran Press TV

Sunday, 08 June 2025 7:12 PM

The Palestinian health ministry has warned that two of Gaza's most vital medical facilities could go out of service within the next 24 hours due to a severe fuel shortage amid a brutal Israeli military offensive and an all-out blockade.

In a statement released on Sunday, the ministry said both hospitals - al-Shifa Medical Complex and al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital - were currently providing emergency care to the wounded and sick in Gaza City and the northern part of the strip.

The ministry added that despite the worsening crisis, it has not received any indication or communication that fuel will be allowed into Gaza to power hospital generators.

"If al-Shifa and al-Ahli go out of service, it would mean the collapse of the remaining health infrastructure in Gaza City," the ministry warned.

This follows the closure of several other health facilities across the besieged Palestinian region for similar reasons.

The Nasser Medical Complex, another major hospital in southern Gaza, is also facing a critical fuel shortage. It is operating on a limited supply that is expected to last no more than two days, according to the statement.

Israel has escalated its relentless attacks on Gaza hospitals and health facilities in recent weeks.

The director of the al-Shifa hospital earlier said five cancer patients die daily in their homes in the Gaza Strip due to the lack of medical care caused by Israel's brutal onslaught and siege.

The Israeli military has recently completely demolished the Noura al-Kaabi dialysis center, the only medical facility providing kidney dialysis to Palestinian patients in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Gaza Health Ministry said that the Israeli attack on the Noura al-Kaabi dialysis center is "a death sentence for hundreds of patients," whose health is "at risk of catastrophic and irreversible collapse."

Gaza hospitals are suffering from a shortage of clean water, even in kidney dialysis units.

The ministry has expressed outrage over the international community's silence and inaction in the face of the Israeli regime's ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, which continues to proceed "undeterred" and with impunity.

In comments made earlier this week, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross described the situation in Gaza as becoming "worse than hell on earth."

Israel is slaughtering more Palestinian civilians in Gaza as the regime's military keeps pounding the blockaded territory indiscriminately.

According to Gaza health officials, at least 54,880 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed since October 2023, when the US-Israeli genocidal campaign against Gaza began. More than 125,000 others have also been injured.

The UN children's agency says 50,000 children have either been killed or wounded in Gaza since the Israeli onslaught on the war-ravaged territory began.

Israeli aggression has flattened the besieged strip and displaced more than 90 percent of the population.

Protesters across the US and European cities in recent days have accused their governments of continuing to provide military assistance to Israel even though the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains dire.