United Nations: Israel obstructs the delivery of fuel to Gaza hospitals

Gaza - Together - The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Palestine announced that humanitarian convoys were unable to deliver fuel to hospitals in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli obstacles. The organization's official account on the "X" website wrote a tweet in which it was announced that two-thirds of the coordinated humanitarian missions in Gaza today faced obstacles or delays by the Israeli authorities, and on average, each mission faced a delay of five hours before it was allowed to proceed. As a result, vital supplies, equipment and fuel for backup generators were not delivered to hospitals, the office added. Earlier, the head of the government media office in Gaza, Salama Marouf, confirmed that preventing the entry of cooking gas and fuel into the Strip threatens to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis. Marouf added: 'For the seventh month, the (Israeli) occupation continues to prevent the entry of cooking gas and various types of fuel into the Gaza Strip, especially t o Gaza City and the northern Strip, which threatens to exacerbate the humanitarian and health crisis in light of the ongoing aggression against our people, as a result of the citizens' reliance for many months on means The primitive alternative is to light a fire from wood, charcoal, and the remains of building rubble, which has caused hundreds of people to suffer from respiratory diseases due to the use of plastic and chemical materials in lighting the fires, which emit toxic gases.' Source: Maan News Agency