Hospitals in Gaza have only enough fuel for three days

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Sunday that the fuel available to hospitals in the Strip “is sufficient for only three days,” and warned that Israel’s obstruction of fuel supplies to hospitals “threatens to bring them to a standstill.”

The ministry explained in a statement that “the Israeli occupation is preventing international and UN organizations from accessing fuel storage sites designated for hospitals, under the pretext that they are located in red zones.”

It added, “The available fuel in hospitals is sufficient for only three days.”

It stated that hospitals in the Gaza Strip rely on generators to power vital departments, stressing that “the obstruction of fuel supplies to hospitals threatens to bring them to a standstill.”