Inside the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, cancer patients are in wings that suffer from a severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies, due to an Israeli -suffocating siege, and preventing patients from traveling for treatment, with the process of annihilation and ethnic disinfection committed by Tel Aviv with American support.
On one of the hospital family, the Palestinian mother Samer sits next to her young child, Samer Asfour, who has leukemia with a skinny body and a pale face, without treatment or health care.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), on Sunday, said in a post on X that the inventory of humanitarian supplies runs out in the Gaza Strip, the situation is getting worse, and the Israeli siege must be completed and aid must be allowed.
The mother told Anatolia, trying to imprison her tears, and besides her sneaking: My child suffers from leukemia, and his healthy condition is very bad, he has a severe immunity and has no treatment.
The Palestinian raises her voice with an urgent call to the international community and the World Health Organization to save her only child before losing his life.
Not far from Samer’s bed, Khaled Saleh, a cancer patient whose medical journey stopped due to genocide and the destruction of health facilities, led by the Palestinian -Palestinian Hospital in Gaza, which was the only center specialized in providing chemotherapy.
Khaled told Anatolia in a weak voice: We were receiving our treatment in the Turkish hospital in Gaza, which is the most important hospital, and his potential was huge, but everything ended after the displacement of patients and the arrest of doctors, and the treatment was no longer available.
He explained that he moved to the European Gaza Hospital, and he is now the last resort for cancer patients.
A lack of medicines
He pointed out that the hospital suffers from a shortage of medicines and examination devices, and we have no way but to travel to treatment abroad, but the crossings are closed due to the Israeli genocide.
On March 2, Israel closed the Gaza crossings in front of the entry of humanitarian, relief and medical aid to the sector, which led to an unprecedented deterioration in the humanitarian situation.
For his part, Dr. Musa Al -Sabah, head of the Cancer Oncology Department at the European Gaza Hospital, confirms that the hospital is the only one in the sector that provides medical services for cancer patients.
He explained to Anatolia, that the hospital lacks basic chemical treatments, palliative drugs, and even some vital devices are no longer working, and there are patients with their condition deteriorating.
Al -Sabah pointed out that Israel closing the crossings prevents the introduction of medications and medical supplies, and prevents patients from leaving treatment abroad, in light of the escalation of genocide.
On Sunday, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Youssef Abu Al -Rish, announced that 59 percent of the basic drugs, and 37 percent of medical supplies.
Upon his meeting with the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, Susanna Takhalic, he warned that the health sector has reached dangerous and disastrous levels, amid the extermination of Israel with American support.
genocide
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has destroyed 34 out of 38 hospitals, including governmental and private, leaving only 4 hospitals, working with a limited ability despite their damage, with a severe shortage of medicines and medical equipment, according to the latest statistic of the government media office in Gaza.
The Israeli raids also removed 80 health centers from the full service, as well as the destruction of 162 other medical institutions.
With an absolute American support, Israel has committed since October 7, 2023 genocide in Gaza, which left more than 165,000 martyrs and wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.
At the beginning of last March, the first phase of a ceasefire agreement and the exchange of prisoners between Hamas and Israel ended, which started on January 19, and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, dismissed the start of his second phase.
Netanyahu, who is required for international justice, sought to release more Israeli prisoners in Gaza without implementing the obligations of the second stage, especially the end of the extermination war and the withdrawal from the sector completely.