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Al Jazeera Staff

‘Critical point’: UN pleads for fuel for Gaza amid Israeli blockade

Wounded Palestinians receive treatment at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after an Israeli air attack in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, July 8 [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]

The United Nations humanitarian office, OCHA, has warned that the fuel crisis in Gaza due to the Israeli blockade has reached a “critical point” and will cause further deaths and suffering in the besieged Palestinian territory.

OCHA said the fuel powering vital functions in Gaza, including water desalination stations and hospitals’ intensive care units, is running out quickly, with “virtually no additional accessible stocks left”.

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