“My daughter used to walk and play before the illness,” her father, Muntasir, told Al Jazeera. Half the dialysis machines have stoppedAccording to Gaza’s Palestinian Ministry of Health, half of all dialysis machines in the besieged territory have stopped working entirely, largely due to a shortage of sodium bicarbonate needed to run them. In Khan Younis, physiotherapist Aya al-Shaltouni told Al Jazeera that prosthetics, wheelchairs and crutches are in desperately short supply. “There are children who lost their limbs,” he told Al Jazeera. “Everyone in these conditions needs psychological support… and this need will continue,” she told Al Jazeera.