Archive for July 23rd, 2018

23/07/2018

Essential Services on Verge of Shutdown in Gaza as Emergency Fuel Set to Run Out

Human Wrongs Watch

Supplies of emergency fuel provided by the United Nations for critical facilities in Gaza are being fast depleted, a senior UN relief official there warned on Sunday, 22 July 2018.

OCHA/Mustafa El Halabi | Jamie McGoldrick, second from left, the UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, visits a patient at the Al Quds Hospital in Gaza (file).
“At least one hospital has been forced to shut down for a few hours, and services are being dramatically reduced at others,” said Jamie McGoldrick, the Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory.