GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The director of the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, Marwan Al-Sultan, warned of the hospital ceasing operations due to a severe shortage of diesel fuel.
In a press statement on Sunday, Al-Sultan pointed to the repeated refusal to allow the entry of the allocated fuel through the crossings of the besieged Strip, explaining that what has been supplied to the hospital is only enough for 72 hours.
The hospital director confirmed that surgical operations and the intensive care unit are threatened with shutdown, which poses a real threat to the lives of patients and exposes them to the risk of death.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip had warned on Saturday of the unprecedented crisis of medicines and medical consumables in the Strip’s hospitals, amid the ongoing aggression and the occupation’s control over all crossings, and its continuous targeting of the health sector in Gaza.
The World Health Organization had previously warned that the fuel shortage poses a catastrophic risk to the health system in Gaza, which has been exhausted by the ongoing Israeli genocide war for 11 months, noting that the health sector alone needs 80,000 liters of fuel per day.
The Israeli occupation authorities control everything that enters the besieged Strip, which has been suffering from a severe shortage of fuel necessary to operate hospital generators, as well as humanitarian vehicles or even bakeries and water desalination units, but the occupation prevents their entry in sufficient quantities on the pretext that the Palestinian resistance could benefit from it.
