The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has said that it will be forced to suspend aid work in the Gaza Strip within 48 hours, as an Israeli siege strains access to much-needed fuel.
In a social media post on Monday, Thomas White, the Gaza chief for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said that fuel has not been allowed into Gaza for more than a month, as humanitarian conditions reach critical levels.
“The humanitarian operation in Gaza will grind to a halt in the next 48 hours as no fuel is allowed to enter Gaza,” White wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
As Israel continues to hammer Gaza with air strikes amid a ground offensive on the territory, a siege cutting off access to food, electricity, and fuel has overwhelmed organisations trying to assist those displaced and wounded by the fighting.
Palestinian authorities have said that Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed at least 11,240 people, including more than 4,600 children, since fighting began on October 7 when the Palestinian armed group Hamas carried out an attack on southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people, according to Israeli authorities.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
What do you think is the responsibility of the international community when a region faces a critical humanitarian crisis due to ongoing conflict?
The international community should first do everything in their power to end the conflict. If diplomacy dosent work it should then be the responsibility of the UN to come together and agree to send peacekeepers in to monitor the conflict and create humanitarian corridors to supply aid to the people in crisis
@9GYJGP9Independent2yrs2Y
Central agency should be allowed in regardless…such as UN
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