Michal Feldon: Chronic Patients In Gaza Are Dying

Ajouté : 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]While headlines focus on the immediate trauma of falling bombs, a quieter, deadlier crisis has decimated Gaza's health system. Beyond the visible destruction of 23 health centers, the war has severed the lifeline for 350,000 chronic patients. For those living with diabetes, cancer, or kidney disease, the conflict isn't just a threat from above.

[00:00:20]It is the slow disappearance of the pill, the injection, and the dialysis machine. By June 2025, the data revealed a harrowing [clears throat] reality. 98% of these patients were displaced, often losing access to their regular physicians and medications. We see children with asthma forced onto harmful systemic steroids because there is no electricity for nebulizers. And kidney transplant recipients watching their bodies reject donated organs because immunosuppressants are nowhere to be found. Even mundane conditions, like familial Mediterranean fever, which requires simple, inexpensive medicine, have become a death sentence of cumulative organ damage. As we begin Gaza's reconstruction, estimated $7 billion, we must recognize that recovery isn't just rebuilding walls. It's replacing the 1,800 healthcare workers lost and addressing the excess mortality that doesn't make the news. The war may pause, but for the patient waiting on an evacuation list of 20,000, the clock is still ticking.