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Malay Mail
13-07-2025
- Health
- Malay Mail
UN warns Gaza fuel crisis ‘critical', aid and health services on brink of collapse
GENEVA, July 13 — The United Nations warned yesterday that dire fuel shortages in the Gaza Strip had reached 'critical levels', threatening to further increase the suffering in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. Seven UN agencies said in a joint statement that 'fuel is the backbone of survival in Gaza'. Fuel was needed to 'power hospitals, water systems, sanitation networks, ambulances, and every aspect of humanitarian operations', they said, highlighting that bakeries also needed fuel to operate. The besieged Palestinian territory has been facing dire fuel shortages since the beginning of the devastating war that erupted after Hamas's deadly attack inside Israel on October 7, 2023. But now 'fuel shortage in Gaza has reached critical levels', warned the agencies, including the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme and the humanitarian agency OCHA. 'After almost two years of war, people in Gaza are facing extreme hardships, including widespread food insecurity,' they pointed out. 'When fuel runs out, it places an unbearable new burden on a population teetering on the edge of starvation.' The UN said that without adequate fuel, the agencies that have been responding to the deep humanitarian crisis in a territory swathes of which have been flattened by Israeli bombing and facing famine warnings, 'will likely be forced to stop their operations entirely'. 'This means no health services, no clean water, and no capacity to deliver aid,' the statement said. 'Without adequate fuel, Gaza faces a collapse of humanitarian efforts,' it warned. 'Without fuel, bakeries and community kitchens cannot operate. Water production and sanitation systems will shut down, leaving families without safe drinking water, while solid waste and sewage pile up in the streets,' it added. 'These conditions expose families to deadly disease outbreaks and push Gaza's most vulnerable even closer to death.' The warning comes days after the UN managed to bring fuel into Gaza for the first time in 130 days. While a 'welcome development', the UN agencies said the 75,000 litres of fuel they were able to bring in was just 'a small fraction of what is needed each day to keep daily life and critical aid operations running'. 'The United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners cannot overstate the urgency of this moment,' they said. 'Fuel must be allowed into Gaza in sufficient quantities and consistently to sustain life-saving operations.' — AFP
Asharq Al-Awsat
12-07-2025
- Politics
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Fuel Shortages in Gaza at 'Critical Levels', UN Warns
The United Nations warned Saturday that dire fuel shortages in the Gaza Strip had reached "critical levels", threatening to dramatically increase the suffering in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. "After almost two years of war, people in Gaza are facing extreme hardships, including widespread food insecurity, seven UN agencies cautioned in a joint statement. "When fuel runs out, it places an unbearable new burden on a population teetering on the edge of starvation," the statement added.
Al Arabiya
12-07-2025
- Health
- Al Arabiya
Fuel shortages in Gaza at ‘critical levels,' UN warns
The United Nations warned Saturday that dire fuel shortages in the Gaza Strip had reached 'critical levels,' threatening to further increase the suffering in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. Seven UN agencies said in a joint statement that 'fuel is the backbone of survival in Gaza.' Fuel was needed to 'power hospitals, water systems, sanitation networks, ambulances, and every aspect of humanitarian operations,' they said, highlighting that bakeries also needed fuel to operate. The besieged Palestinian territory has been facing dire fuel shortages since the beginning of the devastating war that erupted after Hamas's deadly attack inside Israel on October 7, 2023. But now 'fuel shortage in Gaza has reached critical levels,' warned the agencies, including the World Health Organization, the World Food Program and the humanitarian agency OCHA. 'After almost two years of war, people in Gaza are facing extreme hardships, including widespread food insecurity,' they pointed out. 'When fuel runs out, it places an unbearable new burden on a population teetering on the edge of starvation.' The UN said that without adequate fuel, the agencies that have been responding to the deep humanitarian crisis in a territory swathes of which have been flattened by Israeli bombing and facing famine warnings, 'will likely be forced to stop their operations entirely.' 'This means no health services, no clean water, and no capacity to deliver aid,' the statement said. 'Without adequate fuel, Gaza faces a collapse of humanitarian efforts,' it warned. 'Without fuel, bakeries and community kitchens cannot operate. Water production and sanitation systems will shut down, leaving families without safe drinking water, while solid waste and sewage pile up in the streets,' it added. 'These conditions expose families to deadly disease outbreaks and push Gaza's most vulnerable even closer to death.' The warning comes days after the UN managed to bring fuel into Gaza for the first time in 130 days. While a 'welcome development', the UN agencies said the 75,000 liters of fuel they were able to bring in was just 'a small fraction of what is needed each day to keep daily life and critical aid operations running.' 'The United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners cannot overstate the urgency of this moment,' they said. 'Fuel must be allowed into Gaza in sufficient quantities and consistently to sustain life-saving operations.' R
CBC
11-07-2025
- Health
- CBC
Canadian doctors work in Gaza as fuel shortages threaten lives, hospitals
Two Canadian doctors, from Calgary and Montreal, have been treating patients at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza. These doctors and other health officials in the region say severe fuel shortages leave operating rooms without light, oxygen tanks without air and an overall inability to carry out basic medical treatment on patients in critical conditions.
BBC News
11-07-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Gaza's largest functioning hospital facing disaster, medics warn, as Israel widens offensive
Doctors have warned of an imminent disaster at Gaza's largest functioning hospital because of critical shortage of fuel and a widening Israeli ground offensive in the southern city of Khan Medical Complex was forced to stop admitting patients on Thursday, when witnesses said Israeli troops and tanks advanced into a cemetery 200m (660ft) away and fired towards nearby camps for displaced families. The forces reportedly withdrew on Friday after digging up several staff and dozens of patients in intensive care remain inside the hospital, where the fuel shortage threatens to shut down life-saving was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. However, it said on Friday morning that an armoured brigade was operating in Khan Younis to dismantle "terrorist infrastructure sites" and confiscate weapons> It has previously issued evacuation orders for the areas around the hospital. A witness told the BBC that Israeli tanks accompanied by excavators and bulldozers advanced from the south of the cemetery near Nasser hospital on tanks fired shells and bullets as they moved into an area, which was previously farmland, and several tents belonging to displaced families were set on fire, the witness said. Video footage shared online showed a plume of dark smoke rising from the witness added that Israeli quadcopter drones also fired towards tents in the Namsawi Towers and al-Mawasi areas to force residents to evacuate. Another video showed dozens of people running for cover amid as gunfire rang or two civilians standing near the hospital's gates were reportedly injured by stray staff inside Nasser hospital meanwhile sent messages to local journalists expressing their fear. "We are still working in the hospital. The tanks are just metres away. We are closer to death than to life," they Friday morning, locals said the Israeli tanks and troops pulled out of the cemetery and other areas close to the hospital. Pictures shared online later in the day appeared to show deep trenches dug into the sandy ground, flattened buildings, burnt tents, and crushed vehicles piled on top of each other. Staff at Nasser hospital said they were assessing if they could resume admitting patients. On Wednesday, they warned that the hospital was very close to a complete shutdown due to a critical fuel said electricity generators were expected to function for one additional day despite significant efforts to reduce power consumption and restrict electricity to only the most critical departments, including the intensive care and neonatal the power went out completely, dozens of patients, particularly those dependent of ventilators, would "be in immediate danger and face certain death", the hospital Israeli military official told Reuters news agency on Thursday that around 160,000 litres of fuel destined for hospitals and other humanitarian facilities had entered Gaza since Wednesday, but that the fuel's distribution around the territory was not the responsibility of the is a shortage of critical medical supplies, especially those related to trauma a visit to Nasser hospital last week, the Gaza representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) described it as "one massive trauma ward". Dr Rik Peeperkorn said in a video that the facility, which normally has a 350-bed capacity, was treating about 700 patients, and that exhausted staff were working 24 hours a director and doctors reported receiving hundreds of trauma cases over the past four weeks, the majority of them linked to incidents around aid distribution sites, he added."There's many boys, young adolescents who are dying or getting the most serious injuries because they try to get some food for their families," he them were a 13-year-old boy who was shot in the head and is now tetraplegic, and a 21-year-old man who has a bullet lodged in his neck and is also Friday, 10 people seeking aid were reportedly killed by Israeli military fire near an aid distribution site in the nearby southern city of Rafah. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has not commented. Meanwhile, in northern Gaza, a senior Hamas commander was among eight people who were killed in an Israeli air strike on a school sheltering displaced families in Jabalia, a local source told the Nasr, who led the Jabalia al-Nazla battalion, died alongside his family, including several children, and an aide when two missiles hit a classroom at Halima al-Saadia school, according to the Hamas commander, Hassan Marii, and his aide were reportedly killed in a separate air strike on an apartment in al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal could be just days away, after concluding his four-day trip to the flying back from Washington on Thursday night, he told Newsmax that the proposal would supposedly see Hamas release half of the 20 living hostages it is still holding and just over half of the 30 dead hostages during a 60-day truce."So, we'll have 10 living left and about 12 deceased hostages [remaining], but I'll get them out, too. I hope we can complete it in a few days," he a Palestinian official told the BBC that the indirect negotiations in Qatar were stalled, with sticking points including aid distribution and Israeli troop Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken least 57,762 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
