The director of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, has warned that hospitals in the besieged enclave will cease operations tomorrow if they are not supplied with the necessary fuel.
Speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic, Abu Salmiya said the Israeli army withholds much-needed fuel “up to the point of death”, and only then are hospitals given a very small amount of fuel.
“Hospitals cannot function properly in this way. We have patients, medical teams who want to work in full force. Instead, they are all on edge … the fuel crisis is a massive one,” Abu Salmiya said.
Medical supplies and medicines are also running “dangerously low”, he said.