The UN agency for Palestinians will run out of fuel supplies in three days
Fuel reserves in the Gaza Strip are running out and if supplies do not arrive within three days, the operation of hospitals, water distribution and humanitarian assistance in general will be affected, the agency warned this Sunday. of the United Nations for Palestinians (UNRWA).
In a statement, the organization’s Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini warned that fuel was a “fundamental” element for its humanitarian response throughout the Gaza Strip. “Without fuel there will be no water, hospitals and bakeries will not function. Without fuel, aid will not reach many civilians who desperately need it. Without fuel, there will be no humanitarian aid,” declared Lazzarini, who stressed that “the…” The lack of fuel will further strangle the children, women and people of Gaza.
Lazzarini expressed gratitude for the arrival of the humanitarian convoy, consisting of 20 trucks carrying aid supplies, which entered the Palestinian enclave yesterday but is “far from enough” as “Gaza needs an uninterrupted and expanded humanitarian supply line.”
In fact, doctors in Gaza have warned that the lives of 130 premature babies are in imminent danger if fuel does not reach hospitals soon. “The world cannot simply stand by and watch these babies die from the siege of Gaza,” Melanie Ward, executive director of Medical Aid for Palestine, said in a statement.
Given this situation, he called on “world leaders to urgently demand that Israel provide fuel to hospitals in the Gaza Strip. If we don’t act, these babies are doomed to die.”
According to this organization, there are six neonatal wards in Gaza hospitals, including Shifa and Nasser hospitals, where doctors caring for premature babies have already made urgent requests for fuel to save the lives of the babies under their care.