Alwaght- Fuel for emergency generators that keep Gaza's hospitals and sanitation services operating will run out within 10 days amid a crippling Israel imposed blockade on the Palestinian territory.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has warned that the healthcare system in the besieged Strip is on the verge of collapse due to the sever lack of electricity and fuel needed to operate generators.
Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said: “Today, electricity generators stopped working in three addition healthcare centers… due to the lack of fuel.”
Prior to this, he announced the shutting down of several healthcare centres in Gaza, including Beit Hanoun Hospital in the north for the same reason.
In a press conference, community leaders in Gaza highlighted the crisis hitting the healthcare sector in Gaza due to the inhuman Israeli imposed blockade and the punitive measures imposed by the Palestinian Authority.
Hussein Al-Mughanni, a community leader, called for lifting the Israeli siege on Gaza and for the PA Health Minister Jawad Awwad to visit the Gaza Strip to follow up closely on the crisis.
Last week, Awwad denied that there is a crisis in the health ministry in Gaza and said he dispatched a number of truckloads of medicines.
By the mid of last year, the PA increased its punitive measures as it slashed the salaries of its employees in Gaza and ceased payments to the Israeli usurper regime for electricity provided to the Strip.
The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli siege since June 2007. The Tel Aviv regime has also waged several wars on Gaza since 2008. Thousands of Gazans have been killed or maimed in the Israeli wars and a significant portion of infrastructure has been destroyed. Egypt has exacerbated the siege by closing the Rafah crossing trapping Palestinians in the coastal sliver.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for an end to the decade-long Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, describing the situation in the coastal Palestinian enclave as one of the most “dramatic humanitarian crises.”
