The Director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned on Wednesday that the amount of fuel in hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip is only sufficient for three days.

Ghebreyesus said on the X platform, “The fuel in hospitals in southern Gaza is only enough for three days, which means that their work may stop soon.”

He stressed that “one of the three hospitals in Rafah, which is Al-Najjar Hospital, is out of service due to the military operation in Rafah,” warning that the closure of the border crossing still prevents the United Nations from bringing in fuel, without which all humanitarian operations will stop, and it also hinders the delivery of fuel. Humanitarian aid to Gaza.

The WHO Director noted, “While limited humanitarian operations urgently need to be scaled up, the Rafah military operation further limits our ability to reach thousands of people living in squalid conditions without food, without sanitation facilities, Without health services and without adequate security” "This must stop now," he added.

The Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip caused a humanitarian catastrophe in the Strip, which has a population of 2.4 million people, and has so far led to the death of 34,844 citizens, the injury of more than 78,404, the causing of massive destruction in the Strip, and the occurrence of famine.