Munir al-Bursh, the director-general of the Gaza Health Ministry, says the word “catastrophic” falls short of describing the state of the health sector in the territory amid Israel’s “war of annihilation” against Palestinians.

Al-Bursh said Gaza is suffering from severe shortages in fuel and basic medical supplies, including gauze and oxygen tanks.

“Right now, there is one power generator at the Indonesian Hospital and seven patients in the intensive care unit. If that generator stops, the patients will die,” al-Bursh warned.

He added that the lack of medicine for chronic illnesses, including hypertension and diabetes, is killing people in Gaza.

“These are real miseries that the viewer cannot see. There is slow death in Gaza,” al-Bursh told Al Jazeera Arabic.