Japanese aid packages arrived to a school sheltering displaced Gazans in Khan Younis on Monday (October 23), after a third convoy of aid trucks entered through Rafah crossing from Egypt bound for the besieged Gaza Strip.
Aid work in Gaza may end in hours if Israel does not lift fuel supply block UN saysAid work in Gaza will grind to a halt within hours if Israel does not lift its blockade on fuel supplies, the UN warned yesterday.
UNRWA spokesman Juliette Touma said: 'If we do not get fuel urgently, we will be forced to halt our operations in the Gaza Strip.' Hospitals have also been hit by the fuel shortages and cannot run emergency generators to power life-support machines and incubators for premature babies.Authorities in Gaza said hospital services had 'completely collapsed' because of the fuel shortage and Israeli airstrikes. The ministry of health said 12 hospitals and 32 health centres could no longer operate, adding: 'We fear that more will be out of service in the coming hours due to targeting and running out of fuel.
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