Gaza hospitals threatened with shutdown due to fuel shortage

GAZA, Oct. 05 (YPA) – Gaza-based acting director of Al-Awda Hospital, Mohammed Salha, aid that the hospital in the northern Gaza Strip and all hospitals operating in the Strip will go out of service due to the lake of the fuel that the electric generators needs to.

He told Shafa that the hospitals’ fuel balance has reached zero, noting that the quantities of fuel that the Israeli occupation forces allow to enter the north are very limited and are not enough to operate the hospitals at full capacity.

Salha called on the World Health Organization and all partners to pressure the Israeli occupation forces to allow the entry of fuel needed to operate hospitals operating in the Strip.

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