Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, warns that Israel’s monthlong blockade on Gaza has led to shortages of essential medicines and some are “nearing depletion”, Al Jazeera reports.

The organisation called for an end to the blockade describing it as “collective punishment” of Palestinians.

“For more than a month no aid or commercial trucks have entered Gaza, the longest period since the war began,” MSF said. “This complete cutoff of aid and electricity has deprived people of most basic services and amounts to collective punishment.”

Teams are also running out of crucial surgical supplies such as anaesthesia and antibiotics for children, and medications for chronic conditions such as epilepsy, high blood pressure and diabetes.

Clinics are treating wounded patients “without any painkillers”.