The UN warned on Tuesday that emergency fuel for vital facilities in Gaza will be exhausted within the next ten days stressing the need for donor support to avoid an approaching humanitarian disaster.
The UN said in a press release that it is coordinating with donor countries to provide emergency fuel for the operation of backup generators and vehicles to ensure that a minimum level of life-saving health water and sanitation services is maintained.
At present the nearly two million Palestinian residents of Gaza over half of whom are children receive electricity for no more than eight hours a day.
According to the UN in 2018 $6.5 million is required to provide 7.7 million liters of emergency fuel. This is the bare minimum needed to stave off a collapse of services. For the full functioning of vital facilities 1.4 million liters per month or $10 million per year is needed.
Currently emergency and diagnostic services like MRIs CT and x-rays intensive care units and operation rooms in 13 public hospitals in addition to 55 sewage pools and 48 desalination plants in Gaza are all at risk.
