Kafa lives with long-standing chronic conditions, including hypertension, diabetes, a thyroid disorder and joint pain. But with tight Israeli restrictions on medicine entering Gaza, she’s been forced to ration her own care. Just over half of Gaza’s medicines are out of stock. Of 622 essential items, 312 were unavailable as of March 2026.
More than 50,000 injuries now require long-term rehabilitation, with over 2,000 spinal cord injuries, and more than 1,300 traumatic brain injuries.
Mothers in Gaza cannot even have simple, unguarded moments with their children while under the everpresent threat of death or starvation.
Lebanese rescue workers now wait 15 minutes after each strike before responding, the only way, they say, to stay alive long enough to reach the wounded amid Israel’s implementation of its Gaza “double-tap” policy in Lebanon.
Israel’s warfare in Gaza and Lebanon looks like systems-level destruction of the environmental and infrastructural substrate of life—water, soil, agriculture, energy, and urban continuity.
“Flooding Gaza with non-essential goods while denying the essentials of life… this is not relief, it is silent extermination”
Alongside a surge in diseases caused by insects, rodents and contaminated water, report that Israel’s blockade results in dire shortages of medical supplies.
In Gaza, a pack of diapers that once cost around $3 can now cost more than $30, placing them far beyond the reach of most families.
There has been no relief for Gaza as wars raged in Iran and Lebanon. Here are three articles on Gaza’s crises – all due to Israel’s unrelenting efforts to deprive the people of their most basic needs.
More than a month after war erupted in the Middle East following US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the IDF is pressing ahead with an offensive on its border that threatens to drive hundreds of thousands from their homes.