The director of Gaza’s Health Ministry announced that all health services in northern Gaza has been suspended due to the fuel shortage.

Munir al-Barsh said, in a press conference, that the limited amount of fuel for hospitals is supplied by the World Health Organization (WHO).
 
“There are 25,000 patients in urgent need of treatment outside the Gaza Strip, and only 5,000 others have already been able to leave,” Barsh pointed out.

“For two months or more, no food supplies have entered the Gaza Strip — which entails the need to open the Rafah crossing immediately to alleviate the difficult conditions we are facing,” the health official affirmed, adding that 34 children had died in northern Gaza due to acute food shortages.

He also said that Israeli tanks were deployed outside the Patients’ Friends Charity Hospital in northern Gaza, adding that the citizens in ash-Shuja’iya neighborhood and nearby areas do not know where to go due to the intensity of Israeli bombardments.