Gaza Gazette

Health

State as last reported by the facility or by the health ministry, with the date of that report. We do not verify it ourselves and do not present it as current where no newer report exists.

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Gaza Health Crisis Deepens Amid Severe Medicine Shortages

Critical drug deficits and destroyed infrastructure threaten thousands of patients with chronic illnesses across the enclave.

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Gaza Sewage Crisis Deepens as Treatment Plants Halt

Untreated wastewater flows into the sea daily while access to networks drops sharply.

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WHO warns Gaza health risks will worsen with winter rains

Water contamination and disease cases rise sharply as cold weather threatens displaced populations in overcrowded camps.

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Gaza's wounded ask who decides which patients get to leave

They have gathered outside the Nasser Medical Complex most Sundays for about eight months. Monday's demand was not for speed but for the criteria: tell us how the evacuation list is ordered.

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Children who lost limbs learn to swim at a pool in al-Mawasi

A rehabilitation programme takes about 30 children at a time, starting each session with psychological support and ending it in the water.

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Doctors say malnutrition has permanently stunted famine survivors

A six-year-old in Gaza City has the bone age of a two-year-old, and a 10-month-old born to a starving mother is being treated for her heart, kidneys and lungs. Food returning has not moved either diagnosis.

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Gaza has 12 working oxygen stations and 4 cylinder-filling machines

A health ministry engineer puts figures to a shortage that rights monitors warned of at the weekend, and the stations still standing are running past the capacity they were built for.

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Israeli forces enter a Bethlehem rehabilitation hospital

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has asked the World Health Organization and the Red Cross to step in, saying entries onto medical premises have become a pattern rather than an exception.

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Settler shooting near Hebron paralyses a nurse from Dura

Ambulances could not reach the neighbourhood, and the wounded man was driven out in a private car.

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Gaza hospitals are close to running out of oxygen, ministry warns

The plants still running have nothing left to give, the ministry says.

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Hospitals face oxygen system collapse as entry restrictions tighten

Restrictions on equipment and spare parts are at the centre of the failure.

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Cancer patients in Gaza face a deteriorating treatment crisis

Destroyed facilities, drug shortages and travel restrictions are cutting off care.

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MSF warns engine oil restrictions are deepening Gaza's energy crisis

Hospitals, water pumping and food supply chains all depend on the same generators.

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An 11-year-old in Gaza faces kidney failure without evacuation

Prolonged malnutrition and successive complications have sharpened his condition.

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For Gaza's patients, a referral is the start of the wait, not the end

Approvals, coordination and closures stand between thousands of patients and care.

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Women at a Gaza camp avoid communal toilets, at a cost to health

Sanitary conditions at al-Deira are driving avoidance.

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Cancer patient died in Gaza while awaiting medical evacuation

The 45-year-old science teacher underwent risky surgery as he waited.