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No hospital in Gaza is operating at full capacity nearly a year after a ceasefire took effect, according to a report released Thursday by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.
The Israeli rights organization assessed the health system nearly a year after the ceasefire began in October 2025. It said that although more hospitals have partially resumed operations, there has been no genuine recovery.
Fourteen of Gaza’s 36 hospitals were partially operating in October 2025. By the time of the report, that number had risen to 20, but none was capable of operating fully, the organization said.
The number of intensive care beds remained almost unchanged, rising from 103 in October 2025 to 104 in July 2026. Kidney dialysis services had not recovered, while MRI services remained unavailable, the report said.
Dialysis was available at 17% of health facilities in October 2025, falling to 12% in July 2026. The organization also said the World Health Organization had documented at least 143 additional attacks on health care during the first seven months of the ceasefire.
Medicine and medical supply shortages persisted. Citing data from Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the report said 69% of medical supplies approved for entry into Gaza between January and May 2026 did not enter the enclave.
The report also pointed to restrictions on Palestinians leaving Gaza for medical care, saying patients were dying while waiting for evacuation. Before October 2023, between 50 and 100 patients left Gaza each day for treatment, it said.
Between Oct. 10, 2025, and mid-September 2026, about 3,423 patients were evacuated abroad, according to the report. That rate was three to six times lower than before the war, despite a sharp increase in demand for treatment outside Gaza.
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said killings and injuries continued during the ceasefire. Citing figures from the WHO’s Health Cluster, it said Israeli forces killed at least 1,422 Palestinians and injured 5,150 between the ceasefire announcement and the end of September 2026.
Milena Ansari, director of the organization’s Occupied Territories Department and author of the report, said the ceasefire had been expected to bring Palestinians relief and recovery. She said the health system remained devastated, essential medicines and supplies were not reaching Gaza in sufficient quantities, and patients continued to die without access to treatment available in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Ansari said the report’s figures showed that the ceasefire had not stopped what she described as genocide, but had changed the way it was carried out.
