Something is spreading in Gaza, quietly and rapidly, and almost no one is paying attention.
Over the past few days, we have seen a sharp rise in cases of gastroenteritis at the clinic. Yesterday alone, 32 out of 84 patients came in with the same complaint. One of those cases involved an entire family of seven. All sick. All at once.
In a place where nearly everything has collapsed, and where those in power are more concerned with survival than responsibility, there is no functioning system left to track outbreaks or investigate their causes.
So we asked the patients ourselves, and a pattern slowly began to emerge. Almost all of them had consumed one of two things: frozen fish widely sold in local markets, or frozen meat distributed through international aid organizations.
These products often remain stranded at border crossings for long periods, waiting for permission to enter. During colder months, those delays may have gone unnoticed. But now, as summer approaches, time is no longer neutral.
Food spoils quietly and invisibly, and then it reaches people’s tables.
There is another layer to this crisis. Many of the shops selling these frozen products are simply not equipped to store them safely. Even large supermarkets in Gaza cut electricity to their freezers for long hours each day.
The result is predictable: food that appears safe, but is not. Food that feeds people, and then makes them sick.
This is not a coincidence. It is the outcome of a system that no longer functions. There is no proper oversight, no effective regulation, and no institutions capable of protecting people from what they eat, drink, or endure.
And this is perhaps the most dangerous part: these are not isolated problems. They accumulate. They build on one another. Over time, they create a reality in which even the most basic human acts, like eating, become a risk.
These conditions will not resolve themselves. They require governance, accountability, and real institutions that exist to protect people. None of that exists right now.
So the pattern will continue. More illness. More preventable suffering. More silent crises that no one officially records.
And in a place already pushed beyond its limits, even something as simple as a meal can become the beginning of another emergency.
If this continues, the danger will no longer be hunger alone. It will be something more insidious: a reality in which people are forced to choose not between food and no food, but between food and sickness.
And that is the moment survival itself stops feeling like survival at all.
#WoundedGaza
The more science advances, the more difficult it becomes to be an atheist.
Look at this: the most detailed image ever of a single human cell.
Your body contains 37 trillion of them.
This is divine engineering.
God’s masterpiece.
Something dangerous is happening in Gaza.
Over the past months, we have been noticing a clear rise in cancer cases, especially breast and uterine cancers.
But this is not just about disease.
This is about a system collapsing around patients, leaving them with nowhere to go.
Two days ago, a woman came to our clinic.
F.J.
32 years old.
We suspected masses in both of her breasts, different sizes.
The ultrasound confirmed it.
What remained was the biopsy, the one step that could define her future. It costs 800 Shikel = 250$
For most people, this is a medical step.
But for her, it is a decision between life and nothing.
She lives in a tent.
Her husband is injured in both legs, with metal plates, and depends on ongoing physiotherapy, which we provide at the clinic.
They have nothing left.
For them, this amount is impossible.
In a place like this, illness is not just painful.
It is financially selective.
Sometimes, death becomes the cheaper option.
In cases like this, I usually try to find a way.
I contacted a colleague who works with an international medical program, a program that used to cover the costs of more than 100 patients every month.
I asked him to add her case urgently.
He paused,then he told me:
“The program stopped… a few days ago.”
Why?
Because the organization discovered fraud and theft
by a private hospital that had been receiving more than half a million dollars every month for multiple projects (including pathology services).
Because of greed, thousands of patients are now left without care.
As if this people needed more suffering.
As if it was not enough to lose homes, safety, dignity.
Now even their illness.. is being traded.
And this is only one story.
How many women are now sitting in tents, feeling a lump in their body, and waiting?
Waiting without diagnosis.
Waiting without treatment.
Waiting for pain to become something irreversible.
How many will lose their chance at early treatment?
How many will reach hospitals only when it is too late?
How many will live with permanent disability, because something simple was delayed?
And even when treatment exists outside Gaza,
patients cannot reach it.
Because the Israeli army continues to restrict and block medical evacuations.
People who could be treated, are trapped.
Cancer patients.
Children.
The wounded.
Waiting for permission that may never come.
This is not one failure.
This is a chain of failures.
A siege that limits medicine.
A system that collapses.
Corruption that steals what little remains.
And in the middle of it all patients .. Waiting.
This is not a story you will see on most news channels.
Because it does not fit a narrative.
But this is our reality:
A place where people are left in tents,
left in poverty,
left in hunger,
left under siege,
and now ..
left to die from diseases this war has helped create.
We may be able to help this one woman.
We may find a way for her.
But the question that does not leave me is this:
How many others will never reach us?
How many names will we never hear?
And how many lives will quietly disappear
because no one was there to pay the cost?
#WoundedGaza
Yeah dude the moon just so happens to spin at the exact rate so that it looks perfectly stationary to us – and then also it’s exactly 400 times smaller than the sun but the sun is 400 times further away by chance so that eclipses match up perfectly
Lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata illā billāh..
NASA has shared images from Mars.
If a person were to remain in سجود (prostration) to Allah ﷻ for an entire lifetime, it would still not be enough before the majesty of His infinite power.
Imagine if a country announced it was introducing the death penalty, but only for Jews. Imagine the global outcry.
But apparently it's fine to introduce the death penalty only for Palestinians...
BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees.
Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out.
It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.
Masjid al-Aqsa closed for 31 days!
Today marks the 31st consecutive day Masjid Al-Aqsa remains forcefully shut by Israel.
We are witnessing the longest closure of Masjid Al-Aqsa in over eight centuries, since its liberation from the Crusaders. During this period, the Israeli occupation imposed unprecedented measures it had never previously succeeded in enforcing.
Masjid Al-Aqsa has been closed for:
— most of Ramadan
— the best nights of the year
— four Jummah prayers
— Eid al-Fitr prayers
"Human rights activists are silent over the open terrorism and state-backed thuggery in Masjid al-Aqsa. However, it is sad to see those Muslim rulers who, in spite of witnessing all of this, remain silent. They should know that the fortunes of time constantly change, and the punishment of Allah gives no warning. Disloyalty with the First Qiblah carries a very heavy price."
— Mufti Taqi Uthmani
What role will you play in guarding and preserving Masjid Al-Aqsa?
French journalist Marine Vlahovic was found dead in her home in Marseille while working on a documentary covering Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
“The seven heavens, the earth, and all those in them glorify Him. There is not a single thing that does not glorify His praises—but you cannot comprehend their glorification. He is indeed Most Forbearing, All-Forgiving.”