Inside Gaza City’s Eye Hospital, the Strip’s main center for ophthalmic surgeries, the steady hum of medical equipment and the rhythmic beeps of monitors mingle with the labored breaths of doctors racing to save lives.
Their faces bear deep lines of exhaustion – the toll of Israel’s blockade and what Palestinians describe as a starvation policy that has gripped the territory for 22 months.
Driven by duty, surgeons work marathon shifts under siege conditions that have turned bread into a rarity and made sugar and protein costlier than gold. “We keep going because we have no choice,” one doctor told Anadolu Agency (AA).
The U.N.’s World Food Program warns that one-third of Gaza’s 2.4 million people have gone days without eating, calling the crisis an “unprecedented” humanitarian collapse.
Hundreds of aid trucks are needed daily to stave off famine, the U.N. says, as hunger tightens its grip on a population already enduring war.
