Gaza – Saba:
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor stated on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation’s ban on fuel entry into Gaza’s hospitals constitutes a direct tool of killing and a means of forcibly displacing civilians. The ban, it said, renders medical facilities completely paralyzed and turns them into places of death.
In a statement, the Monitor warned that the shutdown of generators and the malfunction of vital medical equipment exposes the lives of thousands of patients — including newborns, ICU patients, and kidney failure patients — to imminent death. It added that this forces families to flee in search of healthcare or alternative energy sources, while no functioning medical facility remains in the Strip.
The organization described the policy as part of a systematic approach by the Israeli occupation to undermine the conditions necessary for civilian survival, making it an integral part of the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
It further noted that, in addition to the dozens of civilians killed daily by direct military strikes, even more die each day from indirect consequences — such as the fuel blockade — which also meet the criteria for genocide, yet these victims often go unrecorded in official war casualty lists.
The Monitor highlighted that the complete shutdown of the dialysis unit at Al-Shifa Medical Complex on Tuesday means “we are just days away from starting to record kidney patients dying one after another.”
It warned that this development is not just a health catastrophe, but a clear manifestation of the slow-killing policy employed by the Israeli occupation. This policy deliberately deprives civilians of life-saving medical care, reinforcing the broader crime of genocide being perpetrated against the population of Gaza.
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