Trump announces historic Gaza agreement, Israel strikes medical warehouses.

What does this look like on the ground?

Among the medical supplies at the warehouses that Israel blew up on Saturday were those critical for patients of the kidney department. This is Gaza we are talking about, it’s not like you can just quickly get in a resupply. In fact, there wasn’t enough supply to begin with as Israel continues to severely restrict the access of humanitarian aid and the work of aid organizations.

When it comes to kidney disease medications so much is lacking that many patients who would require dialysis now require blood transfusions, but there is too big of a strain on already limited blood supplies and hospital capacity. This is largely due to the fact that, according to the iNGO Health Cluster, therapeutic erythropoietin which is critical to the production of red blood cells has been out of stock since Sept 2025. Yes, for nearly a year.

The only part of Aqsa’s courtyard and the surrounding area that is not packed with tents is the ambulance entrance. Imagine being in one of those tents you see around the crater. Imagine the fear, the screams of the children.

Al-Aqsa is one of the few semi-functioning hospitals in all of Gaza, among a handful offering dialysis to it’s patients. These Israeli strikes also destroyed intravenous fluids, medicines and supplies used not just in dialysis but also in intensive care, according to what the hospital’s spokesperson, Khalil al-Daqran, told the Anadolu news agency.

I’ve been to Al-Aqsa many times over the course of my four trips to Gaza with my charity INARA in 2024 whether to do a broadcast on the humanitarian conditions or to try to deliver supplies and meet with doctors and injured children.

I find myself thinking about those I’ve met, the little children that ran up to me, often barefoot, when I would be there doing a broadcast.

Or those who were being kept alive by the bleeping machines in the ICU. Or those who cried for parents they did not yet know were dead. Or those who lay on hospital beds or on the floor in the corridors because there just was not enough space.

This little girl, barely two years old was in the al Aqsa ICU. If she woke up she would find out that she was an orphan.

This is Qamar. She did not know at this point in time, June 2024 that both her parents were dead. That is her aunt with her. Shrapnel slashed through Qamar’s belly, her intestines spilled out. She also had a leg injury.

I see their faces, I remember their stories. I know that the hospital is packed with children and adults who saw their desperately needed medications and treatments obliterated when Saturday’s Israeli bombs fell on the hospital’s warehouses, fully damaging two out of four of them. I think about those struggling through various kidney diseases or who needed insulin who just had their lifeline blown away. Having just spent days with my Dad in hospital for a fractured hip, I’m imaging those in Gaza watching their parents suffer. In my mind there is a daughter in Gaza who took her Dad to the hospital not in an ambulance but on a donkey cart for his dialysis treatment, only that doesn’t exist anymore.

Israel, according to what CNN reported, said that Hamas was using the warehouses as a hideout. Israel has not provided any evidence to back that claim and regardless of that doesn’t a ceasefire mean that you don’t strike at your enemy? Al-Aqsa is not close to any Israeli troop positions, even though Israel now controls close to 70% of Gaza. Reminder, at the start of the ceasefire Israel controlled 50% but has been pushing its “yellow line”.

These strikes happened two days after President Trump announced what he called a major breakthrough in his Gaza peace deal, where he said that Hamas had agreed to full disarmament.

It provided a sliver of hope for the people of Gaza that maybe, just maybe it would be the start of moving towards something better than the hell they are living now. But hope is a cruel beast.

Israel has remained rather silent on this development, at least in terms of statements made. Then again, as many are pointing out, the bombings were it’s response.

There’s a young doctor who worked in the ICU I became friends with. Once, he told me, he had to tell a mother that her child with pneumonia could not be admitted into the facility. It was an insane calculations that doctors had to make, the whole triage process that forced upon them a calculation of, for example, a child with pneumonia needing an ICU bed for 2-3 weeks, whereas that bed could be used in that timeframe to save 6-7 lives.

“In the hospital you have to turn off your heart but when we go home we cry”. Dr Mohammed had said when I asked him how he coped with the heartless madness of it all.

Trying to survive in Gaza is still madness.

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Prologue: Israel denied me entry to Gaza in 2025. I am not the only person to be denied entry. I have an active case to appeal that in Israeli court. INARA’s work in Gaza has not been impacted by my denial of entry. Our staff there are phenomenal and exemplary humans.