Israel's ironic response to the UN for saying there is a lack of fuel in hospitals: "Ask Hamas if you can get from here"
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have responded ironically to the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) after warning the humanitarian organization that the lack of fuel will force it to stop its operations in the Gaza Strip.
In a message posted on the social network of fuel. Ask Hamas if you can grab some.”
The comment was published this Tuesday afternoon in response to another from UNRWA in which it warned: “If we do not urgently obtain fuel, we will be forced to stop our operations in the Gaza Strip starting tomorrow [by this Wednesday ] at night”.
UN humanitarian agencies, which warned that this Wednesday they could be forced to stop their operations in Gaza due to a lack of fuel, denounced the chaotic situation in hospitals in the Strip, with overcrowded patients and bodies piled up in tents.. In its daily report on the situation in Gaza, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs indicated that its staff have visited several hospitals in the Palestinian Strip that show “unprecedented levels of devastation.”
“In one of the hospitals, hundreds of wounded men, women and children lay on beds, stretchers and on the floor, most of them unconscious, with open wounds,” the report said, adding that dozens of lifeless bodies were piled up in a grocery store. campaign abroad as the mortuary was full.
In these hospitals, “fuel is highly rationed, being used only for critical facilities, and many of the emergency generators are not designed to operate continuously, so they may break down,” the report highlights.
The lack of food means that many children and women, especially pregnant and lactating women, are at risk of malnutrition, which could affect their immune system and increase the possibility of them suffering from anemia or fatal bleeding, warns the United Nations.
The report warns, as the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), the main provider of humanitarian services in Gaza, already pointed out on Tuesday, that its assistance activities could have to stop on Wednesday night if fuel does not enter the fringe.