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Eight-year-old Noor Zinnu cries in pain as a physician at this Doctors Without Borders clinic in Gaza City changes her dressing for severe burns sustained in the war.
She's among what the Gaza Health Ministry says is more than 170,000 Palestinians wounded in Israeli attacks.
NPR's Anas Baba visited the clinic's waiting room, which was packed with the wounded and sick.
But it faces closure now, after Israel banned Doctors Without Borders and around 40 other aid groups from bringing aid or staff into Gaza.
Israel says the decision is based on new security and transparency requirements aid groups fail to meet.
Doctors Without Borders says it treated a million patients in Gaza in 2025, half the population.
They say Palestinians will be deprived of essential care if aid groups lose access to Gaza.