We denounce Gaza’s “silent killings” from preventable disease and lack of access to medical care.

Six months into the devastating war in Gaza, we are standing at a precipice. More than 32,000 people have been killed, 75,000 have been injured, and an estimated 8,000 remain trapped under rubble. The industrial-scale destruction of civilian infrastructure, compounded by a suffocating siege, has pushed the civilian population to the brink. In Rafah – a place the Israeli authorities described as “safe” – military operations are ongoing and the basic conditions for survival of the civilian population are absent.

Doctors Without Borders has witnessed first-hand the human cost wrought by the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system.