"I almost collapsed," Hillis said of the moment he learned that Israel had slammed the crossings shut again, both for food aid coming in and sick, injured Gazans going out. "It wasn't the time for another war," he said. "The people of Gaza are always the ones who pay the highest price.""
"Gaza's 2 million citizens are accustomed to waiting for a world that has other things on its mind. But the attacks on Iran have led to a particularly cruel reprise of that script, closing the doors for now on perhaps the closest thing to progress Gaza had experienced in years."
"The whole world is now preoccupied with the war on Iran, but the pressures on Gaza remain in place," Mustafa Ibrahim, a human rights activist and political commentator in Gaza, said in a phone interview."
Gaza's 2 million residents faced renewed humanitarian crisis when Israel and the United States launched missile attacks on Iran in late February, prompting immediate closure of border crossings with Egypt. This action reversed months of gradual improvement, including increased food availability and the reopening of medical evacuation routes that had been closed for two years. Residents like Nazeh Hillis, who suffered severe spinal injuries from an Israeli air raid and awaited hospital treatment, suddenly lost access to medical care. The crossing reopened with limited capacity for approximately 200 trucks daily, but officials provided no timeline for restoring pre-war aid levels or reopening the Egypt crossing. Gaza's population remains dependent on international attention and geopolitical circumstances beyond their control.
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