The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza warned on Friday, July 11, 2025, that patients in hospitals across the Gaza Strip are being pushed to the brink of death every day.
In an urgent appeal regarding the fuel crisis in health facilities, the Ministry stated:
“Patients in Gaza’s hospitals continue to face death daily due to the ongoing policy of severe fuel restrictions. The limited and intermittent supply of fuel is barely enough to operate power generators and ambulances.”
The statement added:
“Insufficient fuel quantities are being allowed in, falling far short of what is required to sustain hospital operations. This has forced hospitals to adopt austerity measures, including shutting off electricity in certain departments, postponing or halting vital services—such as kidney dialysis—and reducing the number of operational ambulances. As a result, citizens are often forced to transport the injured and sick on animal-drawn carts.”
“Most alarmingly,” the Ministry noted, “patients whose lives depend on life-support equipment in intensive care units and other critical departments are constantly at risk. Fuel deliveries are made in fragmented, day-to-day quantities, placing all medical teams under unrelenting pressure and continuous danger.”
The Ministry of Health urgently appealed to all concerned institutions to end this policy and ongoing humanitarian catastrophe by ensuring the immediate and sufficient provision of fuel required to operate hospitals and ambulances, in order to save lives.