GAZA’S Eye Hospital warned yesterday that it is now unable to provide full services amid ongoing war and shortages.
Dr Hussam Dawoud, director of Gaza’s Eye Hospital, warned of a severe collapse in medical services caused by acute supply shortages and the ongoing war, leaving the facility unable to restore full operations.
In a statement on Sunday, Dr Dawoud explained that the surgery department at the Eye Hospital has resumed work at a limited capacity, with only one and a half operating rooms functioning out of the three that were fully operational before the war.
Dr Dawoud pointed to severe shortages of surgical tools, medical consumables, and vital equipment, appealing to the international community and humanitarian organisations to facilitate the entry of fuel, spare parts, and medical needs.
He affirmed that Gaza’s health sector is under unprecedented pressure, with the eastern wing of the Eye Hospital destroyed by nearly 70 per cent since the war started.
Meanwhile, Gaza Rights Centre (GRC) warned that cancer patients in the embattled Gaza Strip face soaring mortality rates due to the collapse of medical services, halted treatments, and Israel’s restrictions on travel permits.
In a statement published on its website on Saturday, GRC said it was deeply concerned over figures disclosed by Al-Shifa Hospital director Dr Mohamed Abu Salmiya, who reported that four to five cancer patients die each day due to the complete halt of chemotherapy treatment.
GRC cited Dr Abu Salmiya as saying that around 4,000 patients in Gaza face death due to the absence of chemotherapy, amid a severe shortage of essential medicines exceeding 50 per cent and the loss of more than 70 per cent of vital medical supplies.
According to GRC, figures released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in December 2025 say that Gaza has about 12,500 cancer patients, with over 2,000 new diagnoses each year, 122 of them children.
- The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,359 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Sunday morning.
The ministry added that the total number of the wounded also surged to 174,185 people.
In its daily report, the health ministry said that hospitals received six civilian bodies and 23 wounded people over the past 24 hours, while another citizen succumbed to injuries sustained in a previous attack.
Since the ceasefire agreement took effect on October 10, 2025, at least 1,230 Palestinians have been killed, and 4,076 others have been injured.