DEIR AL-BALAH (Dispatches) – An Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing a medic and wounding nine other people, a spokesman for the hospital said.
The strike hit the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in the Muwasi area, where hundreds of thousands have sought shelter in sprawling tent camps. The wounded were all patients and medics, and two of the patients were in critical condition after the strike, said Saber Mohammed, a hospital spokesman. 
The military has struck hospitals on several occasions during the 18-month war.
On Sunday, Israel struck the last major hospital providing critical care in northern Gaza after ordering an evacuation. A patient died during the evacuation, and the strike severely damaged the emergency room, pharmacy and surrounding buildings, according to al-Ahli Hospital.
The UN relief coordination office (OCHA) has said that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is the worst it has been since the start of the war, amid Israel’s halting of essential supplies into the besieged enclave. 
According to OCHA, it has been more than a month since the Zionist regime’s authorities allowed the entry of aid into the territory, the longest blockade the Gaza Strip has experienced.  
“The humanitarian situation in Gaza is now likely the worst it has been in the 18 months since the outbreak of hostilities,” the UN agency said in an update on Monday. 
The Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) has said that Gaza has entered a full-blown famine as 91% of the population faces extreme food insecurity following the Zionist regime’s long genocidal war against the Palestinians there.
Israel is deliberately starving 2 million people — bombing bakeries, blocking food, and cutting off water. This is not a crisis. It’s genocide, PNGO said.
According to PNGO, 91% of Gaza’s population faces crisis-level food insecurity. 345,000 people are in Phase 5 — the most extreme stage of famine. 60,000 children urgently need treatment for malnutrition.
And 92% of children under 2 and breastfeeding mothers aren’t getting the nutrition they need. This means permanent, irreversible damage to an entire generation, the PNGO said.
This is not a natural disaster. It’s a policy of starvation — by design, it added.
Bakeries have been shut down. Food and medicine warehouses were bombed. Aid blocked at the border. Water desalination plant destroyed, the PNGO said. 
Even polio vaccines and nutritional supplements are being prevented from entering, it stated.
“The Israeli apartheid regime is intentionally preventing the entry of food, medicine, and fuel,” PNGO said.
This is the textbook definition of genocide — and it’s being backed, funded and supported by the US, it said.
PNGO has demanded Gaza be declared a famine zone, sanctions on Israel, safe corridors for aid, suspension of all arms transfers — especially from the U.S., and EU, and war crimes prosecutions for Israeli leaders.
The Israeli regime’s genocidal war on Gaza, which began on October 7, 2023, has killed approximately 50,983 Palestinians, injured another 116,274, and displaced almost 2.2 million people.
Israel has also imposed a blockade on free movement, which has led to severe shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.