DaysofPal- The Al-Awda Health and Community Association has warned that ongoing restrictions imposed by Israeli occupation on diesel fuel supplies are gravely undermining Gaza’s healthcare system and could bring vital medical services to a standstill.
Raafat Al-Majdalawi, the association’s Director General, said the continued interruption of diesel deliveries is crippling health facilities across the Gaza Strip, emphasizing that the Israeli occupation is primarily responsible for the worsening fuel crisis.
In public statements, Al-Majdalawi cautioned that cutting off fuel to medical institutions effectively deprives thousands of Palestinians of essential healthcare.
As fuel stocks rapidly decline, hospitals are struggling to keep operating, placing patients’ lives in immediate danger.
Medical sources have reported that the Israeli occupation has deliberately engineered repeated fuel shortages in Gaza, even after the ceasefire took effect.
They noted that the health sector remains under severe strain, with the lack of fuel now one of the most urgent and dangerous challenges.
Fuel scarcity threatens to halt critical surgical procedures and disrupt emergency services, dialysis treatment, and neonatal and pediatric intensive care units. It also risks shutting down oxygen production facilities, posing a direct and potentially fatal threat to patients in intensive care.
Figures released by the Government Media Office show that only 394 fuel trucks entered Gaza from the start of the ceasefire until December 21, despite an agreement allowing 3,650 trucks during that period.
This amounts to an average of just five trucks per day, far below the agreed 50, reflecting a compliance rate of less than 10 percent.
As a result, hospitals, bakeries, water pumping stations, and sewage facilities are operating on the brink of collapse, deepening the humanitarian suffering of Gaza’s civilian population, the statement said.
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