Decades of underfunding, blockade have weakened Gaza's health system − the siege has pushed it into abject crisis

Yara M. Asi, Assistant Professor of Global Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida
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For the wounded, injured and sick in Gaza, there is seemingly no escape. On Oct. 17, 2023, news broke that at least 500 patients, staff and people seeking shelter from Israeli bombs had been killed in an explosion at a hospital, according to health authorities in the Hamas-run enclave. Just days earlier, the World Health Organization said in a stark assessment that an order to evacuate from hospital beds and head south amounts to a “death sentence.”