UNRWA: The situation in besieged Gaza Strip is tragic as fuel is about to run out

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini affirmed on Monday that the situation in the besieged Gaza Strip is extremely tragic, and it is getting worse as the agency’s warehouse in the Strip is running out of fuel.

“Within a few days, UNRWA will not be able to resupply hospitals with fuel or provide drinking water,” Reuters quoted Lazzarini as saying today.

Lazzarini added: “The agency is slowly emptying a fuel warehouse that contains small reserves.”

 Lazzarini pointed out that “Israel” ignored the agency’s request to replenish the stock, warning of the consequences of continuing the current situation for the next few days, which will severely affect ambulances and operations in major hospitals, some of which have a little solar energy, but it is marginal, and thus these hospitals will stop working permanently.

Lazzarini said that UNRWA fuel is also used to remove hundreds of tons of solid waste from the increasingly crowded camps in the south of the besieged Strip, and these services will soon stop, in addition to the stopping of water desalination plants.

UNRWA shelters approximately 800,000, or about half of the total population of Gaza, who were displaced by the occupation from their homes during its ongoing aggression against the Strip.

Inas Abdulkareem