Gaza set to run out of fuel today, stopping relief efforts

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) warned that it would have to halt operations in Gaza by Wednesday night unless fuel was delivered. 

“No fuel will further strangle the children, women and people of Gaza,” a Unrwa statement read. 

Officials on the ground in Gaza say this will have a huge impact on the remaining hospitals, which are running on generators, as well as bakeries which are serving thousands of people daily after Israel stopped all food, water and electricity from entering the Strip.

Relief operations will also be forced to come to a halt if fuel supplies do not reach the Strip, worsening the humanitarian crisis.
 
Israel banned all fuel into Gaza from 9 October, which has had a catastrophic impact on the besieged enclave, debilitating hospitals, desalination plants and bakeries. 

At the weekend the Unrwa commissioner-general, Philippe Lazzarini, said in a statement: “Without fuel, we will fail the people of Gaza whose needs are growing by the hour, under our watch. This cannot and should not happen.”