Medical director at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah Iyad al-Jabri has stated that all the patients will be condemned to death amid shortage of fuel to run the hospital. “Especially those in the ICU, the incubators and those relying on dialysis treatment,” he said, Al Jazeera reported.
The directed said more than 4,000 litres fuel was required daily to continue operations and care for patients.
“We have hundreds of patients including the injured and those that are diagnosed with kidney failure and need electricity for their dialysis treatment,” al-Jabri said.
“We are calling on international organisations to send 50,000 litres of fuel before there is an imminent crisis here. Otherwise, it is the injured that pay the price,” he said.
Suze van Meegan, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Emergency Response Leader in Gaza, has said many civilians were still stuck as Palestinians flee Rafah amid Israeli offensive.
“The city of Rafah is now comprised of three entirely different worlds: the east is an archetypal war zone, the middle is a ghost town, and the west is a congested mass of people living in deplorable conditions,” she said in a statement, according to Reuters.
UNRWA, the main United Nations agency in Gaza, estimated as of Monday that more than 800,000 people had fled Rafah since Israel began targeting the city in early May, despite international pleas for restraint.
