Fuel shortage threatens to close Al Awda Hospital in Gaza news

Nabeh Muhammad Salha, Acting Director of Al Awda Hospital in Gaza StripHe told Al Jazeera on Saturday that the hospital is in danger of closing within 24 hours due to lack of fuel, adding that surgery and maternity services have been stopped due to lack of fuel access.

Salha said, “We started reducing services 5 days ago, and we rely on small generators. We work in special conditions, and we urgently need medical supplies.” He warned that the hospital would cease operations within the next 24 hours if fuel did not come in. World Health Organization.

Salha explained that Al-Awda Hospital is currently working with electricity generators in an effort to provide health care to the sick and wounded, adding that the health sector in the northern part of the Gaza Strip suffers from a lack of medical supplies and running out of fuel.

Since the beginning of Israel’s attack on Gaza, the occupying army has deliberately targeted the Strip’s hospitals and its health system, and has put many hospitals out of service, thus putting the lives of the sick at risk. and wounded at risk, according to Palestinian and UN data.

Since the beginning of the attack, Israel has also blocked the entry of humanitarian, medical and fuel aid, except for a small amount of it to international institutions, and the Gaza government says that the aid that comes in meeting the great needs of the people. population, which is determined by Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

With American support, Israel has launched, since October 7, a devastating attack against Gaza that has left more than 132,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid great destruction and deadly famine.

In defiance of the international community, Israel continues the war, ignoring a resolution UN Security Council Stop it immediately, orders International Court of Justice Taking measures to prevent actions Genocide And to improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.