The wounded of Gaza gathered again today in a sit-in, as they say they must almost every day, to demand that Gaza's Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization allow them out for treatment they cannot get inside the Strip. Many have carried untreated wounds for years, their injuries worsening as painkillers stop working and infection eats into flesh that no functioning hospital remains to repair, while they watch the crossing open day after day for others but never for them.
Their suffering is the direct result of the Israeli occupation's grip on Gaza's borders: after seizing the Rafah crossing in May 2024, it cut medical transfers to a trickle, leaving more than 18,500 patients still waiting to be evacuated, over 4,000 of them children, according to the WHO. Gaza's health ministry says six to ten patients die every day waiting to get out, with well over a thousand already dead on the waiting lists, as 94 percent of the territory's hospitals lie destroyed or damaged and the occupation keeps the sick and wounded from leaving to seek the care that exists just across the border.
gassan_.elkhaldi
Israel is monstrous.
