Deir al-BalahA root canal costs 300 shekels, an extraction 50.
Families living on aid, displaced repeatedly, cannot afford the treatment that saves the tooth.
Three years of attacks by Israel and its siege on medical supplies have all but destroyed Gaza’s dental care.
“I can’t pay 300 shekels,” said Nour Abo Shamala, 22, who has lived with the pain since February.
Her tooth is still salvageable, but she waits for the root canal price to fall.
How each outlet framed it
- Drop Site News leans critical
- opens on one 22-year-old's untreated tooth pain, tying Gaza's dental collapse to a graduate who has never worked
Sources: Drop Site News