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Situation critical in Gaza as power and sanitation run out

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Published: 8 February 2018

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Gaza health facilities face closure due to fuel shortage: UN (Reuters)
Fuel for emergency generators that keep Gaza’s hospitals and sanitation services operating will run out within 10 days, the United Nations said on Tuesday in an appeal for immediate donor support

Gaza health system collapsing: 40 percent of medicine runs out (Haaretz)
When hospitals use up their fuel within a week, the lives of some 1,700 patients will be at immediate risk, says a WHO report

Who is responsible for solving Gaza’s massive electricity crisis? (Washington Post)
Last week, Beit Hanoun Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip halted its operations, the al-Durra Children’s Hospital drastically reduced its services and seven other health centres across Gaza closed because of a lack of fuel to power their generators

Israel needs Abbas to solve Gaza crisis (Al Monitor)
SHLOMI ELDAR Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas could perhaps solve the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, but he would rather let Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu handle the terrible situation he created

Photo: Palestinian schoolchildren shout slogans and hold placards during a protest in Gaza city on February 4 (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

 
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