In Gaza, time is not measured by hours or days, but by the number of lives lost before help can reach them. There, behind the rubble that covers the city, the groans of the wounded rise above the silence, and destroyed hospitals stand as witnesses to an ongoing crime in which the world’s silence is as complicit as the bombing itself. Gaza today is not merely a headline in the news; it is a bleeding wound in the conscience of humanity, where tens of thousands of injured people cry out in corridors without medicine, on beds without equipment, waiting for a ray of light from a closed crossing or a promise that will never be fulfilled.

An Uncountable Wound and Numbers Beyond Imagination

The Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Dr. Munir Al-Barsh, confirmed that more than 22,000 patients are in urgent need of treatment outside the Strip, as the healthcare system has collapsed under the direct targeting of hospitals and the deprivation of essential equipment, medicines, and medical supplies.
In press statements, Al-Barsh said that the usurping entity manipulates agreements and refuses to implement what has been agreed upon, while the ministry struggles, with its limited resources, to repair what remains of the medical facilities.

The situation is harsher than words can describe. Medical laboratories were deliberately burned, and medical personnel were not spared from deliberate targeting. A total of 1,772 doctors and nurses have been martyred since the beginning of the aggression— a crime that has yet to see accountability. Meanwhile, the few remaining medical teams work tirelessly to save lives, while some of their colleagues are held captive in the prisons of the usurping entity, where official reports confirm they face humiliation and torture.

Bodies That Testify to the Crime

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that it had received 165 bodies of detainees who died in the prisons of the usurping entity, all bearing signs of horrific torture and field executions. Dr. Al-Barsh stated that the bodies arrived accompanied by Hebrew documents confirming their origin from the “Sde Teiman” detention center in the Negev desert.
Those documents, previously exposed by international reports and The Guardian, reveal practices that defy all human norms—handcuffing, blindfolding, tying detainees to hospital beds, and forcing them to wear diapers—a portrait of brutality that knows no limits.

An Urgent Appeal from the World Health Organization

Amid this total collapse, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued an urgent warning through its Regional Director, Dr. Hanan Balkhy, calling for the current ceasefire to be used to evacuate more than 15,000 patients and wounded who require immediate transfer for treatment outside Gaza.
She emphasized that the organization’s emergency plan focuses on “restoring hospital operations” and providing fuel and vital medical supplies to save lives, warning that every additional delay means hundreds of lives lost each day.

The Conscience of the World on Trial

Despite the ongoing bloodshed, international voices remain faint. Observers believe that ignoring Gaza’s tragedy not only claims new victims but also erodes the very values the so-called civilized world claims to uphold. When a wounded person is left trapped beneath the rubble, when medicine is barred from entry, and when a border crossing becomes an execution ground, silence becomes an act of complicity.
Yet, as the WHO notes, the opportunity still exists to save thousands—if only there were the will, and if humanity’s voice could rise above political calculations.

Between Life and Death… Gaza Chooses Steadfastness

In this gray space between ceasefire and death, Gaza once again stands on the edge of annihilation and says to the world: we are not asking for the impossible, we only ask to live. Among the ruins of hospitals, the cries of doctors can still be heard as they work with what little remains of their tools, and in the tents, mothers wait for their sons trapped between wounds and siege.
And yet, Gaza endures. It clings to life amid the rubble, turning pain into a new promise of survival.