Narrator (Reporter Ashraf Shannon):
What should have been a treatable injury became a life-changing amputation. Inside the Kuwaiti field hospital in Khan Yunis, patients are battling not only their wounds, but hunger, dehydration, and the collapse of basic medical care. For Mahasen Madallal, the impact of those shortages is painfully personal. Her son Mustafa lost his leg, a loss she says could have been avoided.

Mahasen Madallal:
My son’s leg was amputated because there was no medicines to treat his foot. Without antibiotics, his condition worsened and gangrene developed. Doctors told me there was no other option. I agreed. And now my son lives with the consequences. There isn’t even a wheelchair or a proper bed for him. Nothing is available.

Narrator:
Many injured patients say their condition is deteriorating, not because of new wounds, but because their bodies can no longer heal.

Jihad Shalouf:
My health condition is extremely critical. There is no food and no clean drinking water. Proper nutrition is essential to survive. But under the current conditions, nothing is available because of the severe shortage of medicines and treatment. My condition has worsened. Doctors were forced to give me four units of blood and two units of plasma to compensate for the severe nutritional deficiency.

Narrator:
Hospital officials warned that the shutdown of operating rooms caused by Israel’s continued restrictions on the entry of medicine and medical supplies is putting thousands of lives at risk.

Sohaib Al Hams (Al-Kuwaiti Field Hospital Director General):
Thousands of patients are waiting for surgeries to resume. Hundreds face serious danger every day because operating rooms remain closed. Over the past two years, we performed more than 10,000 surgical operations. Today, everything has stopped due to the restrictions by the Israeli occupation and the refusal to allow medicines and medical supplies into Gaza. The need for medicine continues to grow as Israel restricts the entry of supplies into Gaza and halts the work of more than three dozen international aid organizations.

Narrator:
Despite the ceasefire, the wounded keep coming. And inside Gaza’s hospitals, doctors are running out of ways to save them. For patients here, the danger doesn’t end when the bombing slows.