‘We Need Fuel, And We Need It Urgently,’ UNRWA Says
“If we do not get an urgent shipment of fuel in the coming 24 hours, we might be forced to hold our humanitarian operations – one of the largest in the history of this UN agency,” Touma said on Tuesday.
She added, “We are hosting 600,000 people in over 160 underground facilities, including schools, medical facilities, and other buildings like warehouses … We’re so stretched that we have to open warehouses to receive the displaced.”
“Supplies are also running out, so we will not be able to give any supplies to [Palestinians in Gaza]. We will not be able to do very simple things like start our fleet of cars or turn on the trucks and go pick up those supplies that are coming in from the borders.”
Touma continued, “We have been supporting, for example, bakeries in the Gaza Strip with wheat flour that needs cars to deliver that wheat flour. And just the very basics of our humanitarian operations, we won’t be able to continue to do [that] … We need fuel, and we need it urgently.”
Israel has launched a devastating war on the Palestinian territory since October 7, after the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance groups staged Operation al-Aqsa Storm, a surprise attack into the occupied territories, in response to the Israeli regime’s intensified crimes against the Palestinian people.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the Israeli onslaught has so far killed over 5,000 Palestinians, including 2,055 children and 1,119 women, while more than 15,000 people have been injured.
Source: Al Jazeera
