The only cancer treatment hospital in the Gaza Strip has gone out of service after it ran out of fuel, health officials said, according to Reuters.

The director of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital told a press conference aired by Al Jazeera TV that the hospital, which mainly treats cancer patients, had used up its fuel and was now out of service.

“We tell the world don’t leave cancer patients to a certain death due to the hospital being out of service,” the director, Subhi Skaik, added.

Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila confirmed the director’s remarks in a statement, adding that this brings the total number of hospitals not operating right now in the Strip to 16 out of 35.

“The lives of 70 cancer patients inside the hospital are seriously threatened,” she said in a statement.