GAZA, (PIC)
The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza has warned that hospitals in the Strip are on the verge of collapse within 48 hours due to the Israeli ongoing siege and the prevention of international institutions from accessing fuel.
In a statement on Monday, the GMO condemned the Israeli occupation’s deliberate prevention of international and UN institutions from accessing fuel stores designated for hospitals, under the pretext that they are located in so-called “red zones”, in a move that is considered a continuation of the crime of siege and deliberate starvation.
The Ministry of Health announced Sunday that the available fuel supplies are sufficient for only three days, which means that hospitals are 48 hours away from complete collapse, including intensive care units, nurseries, and operating rooms, which portends an unprecedented health and humanitarian disaster.
The statement denounced the systematic crime of blocking fuel delivery to hospitals, considering it a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, a blatant breach of the Geneva Conventions, and a direct contribution to further deepening the health disaster.
The GMO held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for this deliberate crime, as well as the countries supporting and taking part in the genocide, foremost among them the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, for their complicity in this mass crime.
It called on the international community and international humanitarian and medical institutions to take urgent and immediate action to prevent the collapse of the health system in the Gaza Strip and to save lives that are on the brink of death due to starvation and fuel and electricity shortages.
