Ismail Al-Thawabta:

▪ We warn of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe facing the health sector as a result of the occupation's prevention of the entry of medicines and medical supplies, especially treatments for chronic diseases and dialysis consumables.

▪ More than 350,000 patients with chronic diseases face the risk of serious complications or death due to the continued deprivation of their regular medicines and the ongoing blockade on medicine.

▪ Hundreds of kidney failure patients are threatened with direct death as a result of the severe shortage of filters and dialysis supplies and the declining ability of hospitals to provide sufficient sessions.

▪ Around 10,000 cancer patients are suffering harsh conditions and a complete lack of specialty medicines and the suspension of life-saving treatment protocols.

▪ The occupation's deliberate prevention of the entry of life-saving medicines represents a decision of slow and systematic execution against patients and goes beyond military measures to become a primary tool of genocide.

▪ The blockade on medicine constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions, which guarantee the protection of patients and the provision of medical care to them.

▪ The blockade on medicine comes as part of a calculated plan to take the remaining health system out of service and make Gaza an unlivable environment.

▪ We call on the international community, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization to intervene immediately and exert real pressure to open the crossings and allow the entry of medical convoys and specialty medicines urgently and sustainably.

▪ We also call for facilitating urgent medical evacuation for critical cases, especially cancer and kidney patients, to receive treatment abroad before it is too late.

▪ We call on international human rights institutions to document the crime of the blockade on medicine and hold the occupation leaders accountable before the International Criminal Court for their ongoing crimes against patients and the health system.