This is the heartbreaking reality inside Gaza’s hospitals today: four newborns crammed into a single incubator, simply because there aren’t enough neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to meet the overwhelming need. This tragic overcrowding is not just a matter of missing equipment — it’s a direct consequence of the relentless war on Gaza and the suffocating blockade that has crippled the entire healthcare system. For months now, hospitals have been struggling to secure enough diesel fuel just to keep their generators running, rationing precious electricity hour by hour. Doctors and nurses, already overwhelmed by the constant influx of casualties and the mounting medical needs, face impossible choices: who gets the warmth of an incubator, who must share it with three other fragile lives, and who is left waiting. The siege has turned routine care for premature babies into a life-or-death struggle. No child should be born into a world where bombs and blockades decide whether they live or die. Yet this is the cruel reality for Gaza’s tiniest and most vulnerable, trapped in an endless cycle of war and deprivation they did nothing to cause.
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