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The UN and humanitarian organizations are warning about the deteriorating conditions in Gaza, amid fears that hospitals will stop working due to a lack of fuel.

David Harden, former director of the US Agency for International Development mission in the West Bank and Gaza, said that “Israel has the responsibility to take care of the civilian population according to law international, as it is the ownership and management authority. lands

He said in an interview with Al-Hurra channel, “It is clear that it is not possible to live in the situation in Gaza now,” and he pointed out that the delay in the delivery of fuel affects all aspects of life there the hospitals, and it’s a problem that’s easy to solve.

The Director General of Field Hospitals, Dr. Marwan Al-Hams, said, “We are issuing an urgent warning and warning that all hospitals in the Gaza Strip will stop working or reduce their services in the direction of -within 48 hours due to staff blocking access. fuel.”

Harden believes that Israel must “make sure” that fuel is allowed to cross, noting that the United States has “some influence on Israel” to pressure access to the basic material. this is what allows hospitals to function.

He emphasized that America’s influence on Israel “was not used” to pressure the entry of fuel and aid into the Gaza Strip, and all this affects “civilians in Gaza.” “

The bakery crisis threatens to spread hunger in Gaza.

Harden pointed out that Israel is doing everything it can to put illegal pressure on the residents of Gaza, who are “the occupying authority in the eyes of international law, and whose duty it is to take care to the people,” and he said that Israel failed. achieve this.”

For its part, the World Health Organization expressed “deep concern” about the condition of 80 patients, including eight in intensive care, and for staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the only two hospitals that work in part in northern Gaza.

More than a year after the start of the war, Israel was outraged by the International Criminal Court’s decision on Thursday, which includes arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister His defense, Yoav Galant.

Harden believes that “Hamas is very responsible for the October 7 attacks and the hostile crisis, and that Israel has a responsibility towards Gaza in terms of making sure that aid gets into the Strip, and that the administration did not use America’s influence and that some of the responsibility.”

He said that Netanyahu will not listen to anything that US President Joe Biden says, and that the “Biden administration” is responsible for this “weakness” in the American position.

The Israeli army’s campaign in Gaza has so far resulted in at least 44,056 deaths, most of them civilian women and children, according to data from the UN-run Hamas-run Health Ministry. reliable estimate.

Hamas’ attack on Israel left 1,206 dead, most of them civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse count based on official Israeli data.

Also, during the attack, 251 people were kidnapped and transferred to Gaza, 97 of them are still in the Strip, and the Israeli army estimates that 34 of these guards have died.

In his assessment, there are “short-term consequences for civilians in Gaza, where women and children do not have access to sanitary supplies and risks of hunger, mental and psychological health, which have long-term consequences, and this has been . going on for a long time,” which will mean an impact on future generations, which means that it will necessarily have an impact on Palestinian-Israeli relations.

He said that “the Israelis have the right to respond to what Hamas has done, but they must not respond in a way that exacerbates the humanitarian disaster in Gaza.”

He said that the residents of Gaza “see the world as having failed them, and that international law has not served them” for years.