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Gaza Health System Crippled, MSF President Warns Amid Aid Curbs

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(MENAFN) Israel has inflicted severe damage on Gaza’s health system by targeting medical workers and blocking medical supplies from entering the territory, the president of medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Tuesday.

Javid Abdelmoneim told a Turkish news agency that continued Israeli attacks and mounting casualties, children among them, show there is no effective ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

“Israel has revoked our authorization to operate and is preventing medical supplies from entering Gaza, including wheelchairs, crutches and ultrasound machines, on the grounds that they could be used for military purposes,” he said.

Permits have been withdrawn from more than 30 nongovernmental organizations, he added, leaving international staff absent and cutting health services, particularly in the occupied West Bank.

Abdelmoneim said health workers in Gaza have been killed, detained and tortured. He added that Israel has held an MSF surgeon for more than a year without charges.

The MSF chief also sounded the alarm over worsening living conditions in Gaza, citing scarce clean water and spreading sewage.

He urged the international community to take concrete steps to support Palestinians and to ensure international law is respected.

A ceasefire agreement has been in effect since Oct. 10, 2025, yet needs for shelter and reconstruction remain vast. Continued Israeli violations, along with restrictions on the entry of construction materials and shelter supplies, are compounding the crisis.

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