Kidney failure patients in Gaza face a growing risk of death as medicine shortages, closed crossings, and overwhelmed hospitals turn medical waiting lists into a daily struggle for survival.

A recent Israeli decision to bar Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups means international staff and aid can no longer enter Gaza or the West Bank. Local staff must rely on dwindling supplies and no international expertise.

The aid group has refused to comply with new Israeli rules restricting speech and demanding information on staff. Patients are stunned. “I need this place,” says one.

Four people have been killed in Gaza after walls collapsed on to tents during strong winds and rainfall, hospital authorities have said. A teenage girl, two women and a man died overnight on Monday, according to the al Shifa hospital, Gaza City's largest hospital.