So many lives in Gaza still hang in the balance.
In different wards of Nasser Hospital lie two 10-year-old boys, one shot by Israeli fire and paralyzed from the neck down, another with a brain tumor.
Now that a fragile ceasefire is in place, they are among some 15,000 patients who the World Health Organization (WHO) says are in need of urgent medical evacuations.
Ola Abu Said sits gently stroking the hair of her son Amar. His family says he was in their tent in southern Gaza when he was hit by a stray bullet fired by an Israeli drone. It is lodged between two of his vertebrae, leaving him paralyzed.
He needs surgery urgently, Ola says, but it's complicated. Doctors told us it could cause his death, a stroke or brain hemorrhage. He needs surgery in a well-equipped place.
Right now, Gaza is anything but that. After two years of war, its hospitals have been left in a critical state.
Sitting by the bedside of her younger brother, Ahmed al-Jadd, his sister Shahd says her brother was a constant comfort to her through two years of war and displacement.
He's only 10 and when our situation got so bad, he used to go out and sell water to help bring some money for us, she says. A few months ago, he showed the first signs of ill health.
On Wednesday, the WHO coordinated the first medical convoy to exit Gaza since the fragile ceasefire began on 10 October. It took 41 patients and 145 carers to hospitals abroad via Israel's Kerem Shalom crossing.
However, Israel has said it is keeping the crossing closed until Hamas fulfills its commitments under the terms of the Gaza ceasefire deal by returning the bodies of deceased hostages.
In the past week in the hospital grounds, a funeral took place for Saadi Abu Taha, aged eight, who died from intestinal cancer. A day later three-year-old Zain Tafesh and Luay Dweik, aged eight, died from hepatitis.
Without action, there are many more Gazans who will not have a chance to live in peace.
