United Nations: The fuel that entered Gaza through Rafah is not enough News

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees said (UNRWA) Wednesday The fuel that entered Gaza strip From Egypt via Rafah crossing Borderline “is not enough at all.”

UNRWA said on its account on the X website, “This is equivalent to half a truck. It is not enough at all. More is needed. Fuel is being used as a weapon of war and this must stop.”

For his part, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini warned on Wednesday that the agency’s operations in the Gaza Strip “are on the verge of collapse… Providing fuel for trucks will no longer save lives,” noting that “waiting longer will cost more lives” and that “by the end of the day, About 70% of Gaza’s population will not have access to clean water.”

The official Egyptian Middle East News Agency quoted an official source at the Rafah crossing as announcing the entry of the first fuel truck into the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on the Strip.

The source stated that the fuel shipment amounted to only 25 thousand liters, provided to operate UNRWA vehicles.

An Egyptian source confirmed that the shipment “is intended for the United Nations to facilitate the entry of aid after its trucks stopped on the Palestinian side because they ran out of fuel.”

The agency also quoted medical and relief sources in the Gaza Strip, confirming that the fuel shipment had entered the Strip.

Agence France-Presse quoted eyewitnesses in the vicinity of the Rafah crossing as saying that two additional fuel trucks were also waiting to enter the besieged sector.

According to previous United Nations data, the Gaza Strip’s daily need for fuel amounts to approximately 150,000 litres.

This means that the amount of fuel arriving in the Gaza Strip represents only about 16.5% of Gaza’s daily fuel need under normal conditions.

Earlier Wednesday, the Palestinian Telecommunications Group said that the telecommunications services provided by the company in the Gaza Strip will stop during the next few hours, due to the depletion of energy sources, especially the fuel needed to generate electricity.

Last Monday, the United Nations warned that it would be forced to stop its operations in the Strip within 48 hours unless it was able to refuel its trucks to transport aid to more than a million people displaced inside the Strip as a result of the ongoing, relentless Israeli bombing.

Israel has been bombing the Gaza Strip since the 7th of last October, and began launching ground operations as of the 27th of the same month. The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the number of martyrs reached 11,320 people, including 4,650 children.