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A Türkiye-based aid group says Saturday it has restored and reopened the eastern block of Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, as health authorities struggle to resume normal operations at the territory’s largest medical complex amid extensive war damage and shortages of supplies.
Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, suffered massive destruction, with all of its buildings hit by bombardment and set on fire during Israel’s war on Gaza.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has carried out restoration work on parts of the hospital over the past two months after the cease-fire agreement entered into force on Oct. 10, 2025.
However, the scale of the damage and a lack of resources have prevented the facility from resuming normal operations, particularly as Israel has been obstructing the entry of medical supplies, equipment and medicine.
The association has launched a new initiative aimed at helping revive health services in Gaza. As part of reconstruction efforts intended to support war-affected residents and contribute to recovery, renovation work on the eastern block of Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in Gaza, has been completed and the unit has resumed service.
Association officials said the project, launched despite major challenges, was successfully concluded and announced that the hospital block is back in operation.
In a statement, the association said: “In an environment where people said, ‘You can’t do it,’ and where despair took hold out of fear that ‘they will destroy it,’ we undertook to rebuild what was demolished, and we have reaped the results of our work.”
The statement stressed that Al-Shifa Hospital would continue providing uninterrupted medical care to local residents and thanked all donors who supported the project.
The association said it would continue its humanitarian assistance and reconstruction efforts in Gaza with determination.
This comes as Israel continues to renege on its commitments under the ceasefire agreement in force since Oct. 10 and its humanitarian protocol, including the entry of shelter materials as well as 300,000 tents and mobile homes, as repeatedly confirmed by Gaza’s Government Media Office.
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which began on Oct. 8, 2023 with U.S. backing and continues for more than two years, has left more than 70,000 people dead and over 171,000 wounded, most of them women and children, causing destruction affecting 90% of civilian infrastructure.
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