So many lives in Gaza still hang in the balance.
In different wards of Nasser Hospital lie two 10-year-old boys, one shot by Israeli fire and paralyzed from the neck down, another with a brain tumor.
Now that a fragile ceasefire is in place, they are among some 15,000 patients who the World Health Organization (WHO) says are in need of urgent medical evacuations.
Ola Abu Said sits gently stroking the hair of her son Amar. His family says he was in their tent in southern Gaza when he was hit by a stray bullet fired by an Israeli drone. It is lodged between two of his vertebrae, leaving him paralyzed.
He needs surgery urgently, Ola says, but it's complicated. Doctors told us it could cause his death, a stroke or brain hemorrhage. He needs surgery in a well-equipped place.
Right now, Gaza is anything but that. After two years of war, its hospitals have been left in a critical state.
After the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, Israel cited security reasons for not allowing Gazan patients in other Palestinian territories. It also pointed out that its main crossing point for people at Erez had been targeted by Hamas fighters during the assault.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says that in the year to August 2025, at least 740 people, including nearly 140 children, died while on waiting lists.
Without action, there are many more Gazans who will not have a chance to live in peace.
