A Jordanian surgeon recounts the occupation preventing volunteer doctors from entering Gaza.

The Israeli occupation exerts tight control over any avenue that would allow assistance to reach those besieged in Gaza and has repeatedly prevented Jordanian surgeon Osama Hamed from returning to the Strip since he last left in March 2025.

“With a brutal grip, the Israeli occupation exerts control over any avenue that would allow assistance to reach those besieged in Gaza, and even tightens restrictions on volunteer initiatives by doctors, including Jordanian surgeon Osama Hamed, whom the occupation repeatedly prevented from returning to the Strip since the last time he left it in March 2025”

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Hamed says the occupation places complex restrictions on volunteer medical delegations by either limiting to very few the number who can enter or by repeatedly rejecting many doctors and nurses without giving reasons and with very short notice of no more than 12 hours before the scheduled entry time.

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Last February, Doctors Without Borders said it had been unable since the start of this year to deliver any aid or humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip because of Israeli restrictions, despite the ceasefire agreement that went into effect — in theory — on October 10.

The occupation, however, violated it hundreds of times through repeated bombardments that resulted in hundreds of martyrs.

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Doctors Without Borders’ secretary-general Christopher Lockyer said the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza continues, noting a rise in infectious diseases while more than 18,000 people are awaiting medical evacuation, including 4,000 children.

“With a brutal grip, the Israeli occupation exerts control over any avenue that would allow assistance to reach those besieged in Gaza, and even tightens restrictions on volunteer initiatives by doctors, including Jordanian surgeon Osama Hamed, whom the occupation repeatedly prevented from returning to the Strip since the last time he left it in March 2025”

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Hamed described the medical situation in Gaza as "completely destroyed," saying the occupation did not stop at destroying hospitals and assassinating and arresting doctors but even prevented the entry of medical aid and volunteer delegations from abroad, which deepens the wounds of patients who need urgent medical intervention.

Hamed said, "Gaza is always present in my mind," expressing his inability to think of anything other than helping Gaza’s injured since his time there, and he called on international organizations to assume their responsibilities toward the thousands of wounded, especially the children among them.

The article states that with U.S. support, Israel launched on October 8, 2023, a genocidal war on Gaza that lasted two years, leaving more than 72,000 martyrs and 172,000 injured, and causing widespread destruction that affected 90% of civilian infrastructure.

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