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Gaza medical crisis

Palestinian children watch as patients prepare to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment through the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt after it was opened by Israel for a limited number of people, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 8, 2026. (Bashar Taleb/ AFP)
September 29, 2026, 4:17 am
Gazans desperate to leave still struggling to do so, even as Israel claims door is open
Trouble finding willing hosts, visa restrictions, onerous security checks and other bureaucratic hurdles mean exiting Gaza remains a lengthy, difficult task despite Jerusalem saying it wants the Strip’s residents to go
By Nurit Yohanan
Trucks carrying medical supplies line up to bring equipment into Gaza for the expansion of a Red Cross field hospital coordinated by COGAT, May 8, 2026. (COGAT)
May 8, 2026, 7:16 pm
Hundreds of pallets of medical supplies enter Gaza for Red Cross field hospital
COGAT says dozens of trucks carrying advanced equipment, generators, medications and beds transferred to Strip amid health crisis
By ToI Staff, Nurit Yohanan and Reuters
A Palestinian boy, who was injured by gunfire while waiting for aid trucks entering the northern Gaza Strip through Zikim crossing, is taken out of an ambulance after arriving for medical care at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 27, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
September 17, 2025, 2:01 pm
Gaza’s makeshift clinics at risk of collapse as urgent supplies run out, study says
Peer-reviewed research finds improvised medical points overwhelmed, under-equipped, and continuously targeted after nearly two years of war
By Stav Levaton
Palestinians evacuate patients from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip following renewed Israeli evacuation orders for the area on August 26, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
October 18, 2024, 3:15 pm
High Court tells state to draw up formal procedure for Gaza medical evacuations
Human rights groups noted in a June petition that 14,000 Gazan civilians are in need of medical treatment outside Gaza; only 225 have since been evacuated
By Jeremy Sharon
This handout photograph taken on February 18, 2024 by the World Health Organization shows a convoy of ambulances during a WHO, UN humanitarian agency OCHA and Palestinian Red Crescent mission to evacuate patients from Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. (Christopher Black/WHO/AFP)
October 10, 2024, 8:22 pm
UN probe claims Israel seeking to ‘destroy’ Gaza healthcare system
Investigators assert Israel has carried out ‘relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities,’ conflate Palestinian security detainees with Gaza hostages
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A Palestinian man reacts as he says goodbye to his sick daughter before leaving the Gaza Strip to get treatment abroad through the Kerem Shalom crossing, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
June 27, 2024, 7:10 pm
In 1st since closing of Rafah crossing, Gaza children evacuated for medical treatment
Patients and relatives exiting enclave did not know where they were heading; Gaza doctor says 21 patients a ‘drop in the ocean’ compared to Strip’s medical needs
By AP and ToI Staff
Palestinians at the Erez crossing with Israel near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, August 27, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
September 9, 2020, 1:41 am
After delay, UN to handle Gaza medical transfers to Israel, West Bank
Mechanism had initially been announced in July, but was reportedly stalled for three months due to the Palestinian Authority not accepting deal
By Aaron Boxerman
In this May 27, 2019 photo, Muna Awad, mother of 5-year-old Aisha al-Loulu, shows a photo of her daughter while in a Jerusalem hospital, at the family home in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
June 12, 2019, 11:48 am
Gaza parents struggle to join kids for treatment in Israel
World Health Organization says Israel rejects or ignores about half of companion permit applications submitted by family members of Gazan patients taken to hospitals in Israel
By AP and ToI Staff
In this September 16, 2018, photo, Raed Abu Khader, right, carries his 12-year-old son Mohammed as they return from the hospital in Gaza City. Mohammed was shot in the leg at one of the demonstrations on Gaza's border with Israel. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
December 9, 2018, 1:26 pm
For Palestinian children in Gaza, an education in conflict
Hundreds of children bused to border protests by Hamas have been wounded, but more keep coming, entranced by the festive atmosphere and peer validation
By Agencies and ToI Staff
UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Jamie McGoldrick in his Jerusalem office, October 31, 2018 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
November 6, 2018, 8:03 pm
UN envoy: Arab world must boost aid to Palestinians, but buck stops with Israel
Jamie McGoldrick, the UN deputy special coordinator for the peace process, advocates for Palestinian reconciliation, says the UN wants the PA to resume control of Gaza
By Raphael Ahren and Adam Rasgon
Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, center, chants slogans with protesters during a visit to the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
June 22, 2018, 1:57 pm
Economic collapse or war: Hamas’s cynical, desperate bid to pressure Israel, PA
The terror group is holding its subjects in Gaza hostage in a dangerous gambit to improve their lot while retaining its military strength
By Avi Issacharoff
Robert L. Wolkoff
June 8, 2018, 2:11 pm
Robert L. Wolkoff
How do you solve a problem like Gaza?
Why not try my ideas about changing the financials of Gazan workers, and open a world of possibilities?
Michael Eisenberg
May 30, 2018, 2:53 pm
Michael Eisenberg
To repair Gaza, first do some harm
A 30-year plan to change Palestinian attitudes, and yield prosperity and peace
Shayna Abramson
May 16, 2018, 12:52 pm
Shayna Abramson
Fearing for my life, I mourn for Gaza
Screw justice, I want mercy, when we look into each other’s eyes and want to give to each other
Mohannad Hamouda lies in bed while his sister sits next to him at the Shifa hospital in Gaza, April 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
April 12, 2018, 1:52 pm
Israeli NGO sends 8 doctors into Gaza to treat protesters hurt in border clashes
Gazans say surge of gunshot wounds taxes already stretched clinics, hospitals
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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