The country’s highest court will hear petitions by Palestinian patients stuck in war-torn Gaza, but whenever an urgent intervention is needed to save lives, the judges choose to delay and defer, often at a terrible cost

More than 18,000 critically ill patients are trapped in the Gaza Strip without access to the medical care they need. Supplies as basic as needles, syringes, sterile gauze and surgical sutures are running out. I have seen the list of urgently needed medical supplies with my own eyes.