Gaza Herald – Gaza’s cancer patients were facing what health officials described as a “slow death sentence,” as life-saving treatment remained largely unavailable under Israel’s ongoing restrictions.
Dr. Mohammed Abu Nada, medical director of the Gaza Ministry of Health’s Cancer Centre, said patients had been trapped between severe drug shortages, the collapse of diagnostic services, and the continued closure of crossings that prevented them from traveling abroad for treatment.
He warned that these factors formed a “triangle of death,” stressing that many patients had no realistic chance of survival unless they were urgently evacuated outside Gaza to receive proper care.
In March, Israeli occupation forces destroyed Gaza’s only specialized cancer hospital, further crippling an already devastated health system and leaving hundreds of patients without any comprehensive oncology services.
