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The refugee agency for Palestinians has said that aid work is at a breaking point as the Israeli siege cuts off access to fuel.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has said that it will be forced to suspend aid work in the Gaza Strip within 48 hours, as an Israeli siege strains access to much-needed fuel.<\/p>\n In a social media post on Monday, Thomas White, the Gaza chief for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said that fuel has not been allowed into Gaza for more than a month, as humanitarian conditions reach critical levels.<\/p>\n \u201cThe humanitarian operation in Gaza will grind to a halt in the next 48 hours as no fuel is allowed to enter Gaza,\u201d White wrote on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n As Israel continues to hammer Gaza with air strikes amid a ground offensive on the territory, a siege cutting off access to food, electricity, and fuel has overwhelmed organisations trying to assist those displaced and wounded by the fighting.<\/p>\n Palestinian authorities have said that Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed at least 11,240 people, including more than 4,600 children, since fighting began on October 7 when the Palestinian armed group Hamas carried out an attack on southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people, according to Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n The UN said on Monday that 101 workers in Gaza have been killed since the beginning of the fighting.<\/p>\n In Gaza, where the health system is being stretched to the breaking point, the collapse of medical and communications services has stymied casualty updates since November 10.<\/p>\n Palestinian doctors have pleaded that hospitals are running out of fuel, leaving them unable to save patients, including newborn children in incubators, as electricity generators stop working.<\/p>\n Israeli forces have closed in around al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, with medical workers and at least 650 patients trapped inside. Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said that 32 patients died in the last three days due to a shortage of power.<\/p>\n Israel says the hospital sits atop a complex of tunnels used by Hamas, an accusation the group denies.<\/p>\n \u201cThe tanks are in front of the hospital. We are under full blockade. It\u2019s a totally civilian area. Only hospital facility, hospital patients, doctors and other civilians stay in the hospital. Someone should stop this,\u201d Dr Ahmed El Mokhallalati, a surgeon, told the news outlet Reuters.<\/p>\n He added that Israel had bombed water tanks, water wells, and water pumps for the hospital and that those remaining were \u201cbarely surviving\u201d.<\/p>\n Officials have also warned that the conditions created by the bombing and the siege could lead to the outbreak of disease, with access to clean water severely restricted.<\/p>\n \u201cThis morning two of our main water distribution contractors ceased working \u2013 they simply ran out of fuel \u2013 which will deny 200,000 people potable water,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n Mansour Shouman, a displaced Palestinian who fled northern Gaza and sought refuge at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, told Al Jazeera that the conditions at the site were \u201cprimitive\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s leave aside the food and the water, electricity, fuel. There is no safety, there is no security,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were told, \u2018Go to the south, you\u2019ll be safe there.\u2019 However, every day I\u2019m hearing more ambulances come to the hospital. I\u2019m seeing more people take their loved ones to the graveyard.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a>
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