A delegation from the World Health Organisation (WHO) of the United Nations visit and inspect the Shifa Hospital, which was heavily destroyed by the Israeli attacks in Gaza City, Gaza on April 05, 2024. (By Anadolu Agency)

Gaza City, May 14 (RHC)-- The Palestinian health ministry in the Gaza Strip, which is enduring a genocidal Israeli war, has warned about the imminent collapse of the coastal sliver’s entire healthcare system.  “We are only a few hours away from the collapse of the health system in the Gaza Strip,” the ministry said in a statement on Monday.

It attributed the likelihood to “the failure to bring in the fuel [that is] needed to operate electricity generators at hospitals and ambulances, and transport employees.”

On May 7, the Israeli military seized the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza, which borders Egypt and serves as the main point of entry for aid supplies, including fuel, into Gaza.  The move came as part of the regime’s efforts to tighten its grip on the city of Rafah, which it claims contains the “last” major strongholds of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.

The movement has proven the regime wrong by re-establishing its presence elsewhere across the coastal sliver and launching heavy attacks against Israeli forces and the occupied territories from those locations.