Gaza's hospitals are running out of oxygen, with medical facilities operating at a fraction of normal capacity as attacks on healthcare infrastructure and supply blockages push the territory's health system toward complete collapse. Premature babies and critically ill patients are among the most vulnerable, facing a desperate fight to survive as essential medical gases run dry.

The crisis is unfolding against a backdrop of continued Israeli military operations across the Gaza Strip, a narrow Palestinian coastal territory that has been the site of intense conflict since the Hamas-led attacks of October 2023. At least two people were killed and seven wounded on Sunday in two separate Israeli airstrikes — one striking a building in Zawayda in central Gaza, another hitting the Nuseirat refugee camp. Among the dead was a four-year-old boy, according to Palestinian health authorities.

The strikes came after the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel would intensify its offensive if the launching of balloons, drones, and kites from Gaza into Israeli territory did not stop immediately. The Israeli military said it had also killed a senior Hamas figure, Sharif Al-Hasnat, in Deir Al-Balah, describing him as leading efforts to rebuild the group's underground infrastructure. A Hamas official, Basem Naim, dismissed the broader justification for the strikes, writing on social media that the kites were launched by