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By Joshua Scheer
Drop Site News reports that Gaza’s health system is on the brink of total collapse, as Israel continues to restrict the entry of life-saving medical aid despite a ceasefire that mandated full humanitarian access.
Drop Site spoke with Dr. Mimi Syed, a U.S.-based physician who has volunteered in Gaza multiple times and has briefed international bodies and U.S. lawmakers on the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, less than 30 percent of required medical aid trucks are currently being allowed into the territory, leaving hospitals unable to provide even basic care.
After nearly two years of war, the shortages are staggering:
More than half of all essential medicines are completely out of stock.
Over 70 percent of medical supplies are unavailable.
Nearly 60 percent of laboratory and blood bank tests can no longer be performed.
Emergency rooms and intensive care units face a 38 percent shortfall, placing hundreds of thousands of patients at risk of being denied care.
Cancer treatment has effectively collapsed, with 70 percent of oncology drugs unavailable and at least 1,000 patients deprived of treatment, some of whom have already died. Even pain relief is no longer available.
Cardiac catheterization and open-heart surgery have been entirely halted.
Almost all scheduled orthopedic surgeries have been canceled.
Dialysis patients, surgical patients, and ICU patients face life-threatening delays or complete denial of care.
The Health Ministry has issued an urgent call for international intervention, warning of a mass loss of life if the restrictions continue.
Dr. Syed emphasized that these conditions are not accidental. She described the shortages as the direct and foreseeable result of sustained restrictions on essential medical aid entering Gaza.
As Drop Site reports, Gaza’s health system is not merely strained—it is being systematically dismantled.
Here are a few more videos of Dr Syed‘s interviews and statements.
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached unimaginable levels. Speaking at the Gaza Tribunal in Sarajevo in May, Dr. Mimi Syed, an American emergency physician who has volunteered in Gaza, recounts the harrowing realities faced by children and families under siege—horrors that are entirely preventable.
Dr. Mimi Syed on the horrors she witnessed in Gaza: “Humanity is ending by design” in interview with The Dean Obeidallah Show.
Dr. Mimi Syed, an emergency medicine physician who has volunteered in Gaza hospitals under Israeli siege, was recently denied reentry to Gaza just hours before a third medical mission. She had planned to bring critical aid to the besieged enclave. “As a doctor, I shouldn’t have to smuggle in baby formula,” she says. “I shouldn’t have to smuggle in protein.” She shared her experiences in an interview with Democracy Now! titled U.S. Doctor Shares Messages She Got from Friend in Gaza Facing Starvation.
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