Khaberni - Munir Al-Barsh, the Director-General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, paints a tragic picture of besieged Gaza, where it is flooded with chocolate and soft drinks, while fuels and medications are withheld, leaving children in incubators between life and death.
Al-Barsh confirms that what is happening is not a temporary shortage, but a systematic manipulation of aid that conceals ongoing starvation and ceaseless massacres despite claims of ceasefires.
In one of the halls of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza Strip, where the sounds of medical devices mix with the groans of the injured, doctors stand helpless before a harsh reality: incubator-bound children need electricity to survive, while fuel is missing… and the aid that arrives does not save them.
Munir Al-Barsh, the Director-General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, summarized this tragic scene with painful words, saying that what enters the sector "is not so much aid as it is a cruel mockery of death".
Al-Barsh adds: "Trucks enter loaded with jelly, others with chocolate, and soda cans flow as if they were lifebuoys… yet the generator oils that keep the incubators running are still prohibited."
At that moment, chocolate means nothing to a child struggling to breathe inside a threatened incubator. "Calories" mean nothing to a mother watching a screen of a device that could turn off at any moment, carrying away her infant’s life with it.
Al-Barsh confirms that what is happening is not a random shortage, but "a systematic design" creating a compounded disaster: "Flooding with luxury items while depriving life essentials… This is not relief, but silent genocide."
Outside, the scene is no less harsh. The bombardment does not stop, and bullets chase civilians even within schools, as happened in Jabalia camp, where a young man was severely injured inside a school sheltering displaced people.
In just one day, 11 people were killed in the northern sector, including a child, due to raids and attacks targeting civilian vehicles and residential assemblies in Gaza City and Al-Shati Camp.
Despite repeated talks of ceasefire, numbers and field realities reveal otherwise. Since the announcement of the ceasefire on October 11, martyrs and thousands of wounded were recorded, while many victims remain under the rubble, unreachable by rescue teams.
In parallel with the bombing, the fuel crisis worsens dangerously, threatening the collapse of what remains of the health system, while hospitals operate with minimal resources.
In Gaza, the tragedy is not only in the absence of aid, but in its nature: children needing electricity get candy; patients needing medication get drinks.
And hospitals needing fuel receive silence.
Al-Barsh bitterly says: "What logic is this that allows what sweetens the mouth, yet prohibits what keeps the heart beating?"
In this besieged place, where massacres intersect with starvation, life appears only as a postponed battle... between a weak pulse, a generator that might stop at any moment, and this place is Gaza... the enduring.
