New York, Fuel reserves at all hospitals in the Gaza Strip are likely to run out within the next 24 hours, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned.
OCHA said on the social media platform X that the shutdown of backup generators puts the lives of thousands of patients at risk.
Its really about the loss of our humanity if the international community allows this to continue. What we are seeing now is simply inhumane , the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings said.
We are anticipating that there won’t be any more water left, if not tomorrow at the very latest by Tuesday. And what we need is for the water to be turned back on, so all the wells, at least in the south of Gaza, can be filled up. And that needs to happen immediately, she added.
Its really about the loss of our humanity if the international community allows this to continue. What we are seeing now is simply inhumane, she said.
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on forces continue to carry out airstrikes on several Palestinian locations in response to “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation conducted by Palestinian resistance factions on October 7th.
The UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said in a statement on Saturday that the humanitarian situation in Gaza, already critical, is now “fast becoming untenable,” There is no power, water or fuel in Gaza, and food is running dangerously low, Griffiths said, urging all countries with influence to use it to ensure respect for the rules of war, and avoid further escalation.
Source: Qatar News Agency