Civil Defence conducting nonstop missions amid Israeli attacks on Gaza
The Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza reports that its emergency responders carried out 22 missions across the enclave between Friday and Saturday mornings.
In the besieged northern governorate that Israel is trying to evacuate of citizens, first responders extinguished a fire in a home and a vehicle, as well as recovered bodies from another bombed house and rescued injured people.
In the central areas, they responded to several fires in residential buildings and transported two people to the hospital who were wounded in separate attacks. In Khan Younis in the south, the organisation said it dispatched aid workers to transport multiple casualties after separate attacks on homes in al-Amal.
Hospitals facing generator crisis: Gaza Health Ministry
Israel’s destruction of generators is threatening critical care services including operating units, intensive care units, emergency units and nurseries, Gaza’s Health Ministry has said in a statement.
Three high-capacity generators were bombed recently and the remaining generators risk going out of service, the ministry added. ”Technical teams in hospitals are working with limited and exhausted options to bolster electricity supplies to vital departments,” it said.
The remaining generators have been in operation for more than a year and are difficult to maintain due to a lack of parts, it explained. “We call on all relevant institutions and agencies to urgently provide generators with the required capacity, as well as the necessary spare parts for maintenance.”
‘The humanitarian situation in Gaza is spiraling’: WFP
The World Food Programme (WFP), which has enough food ready near Gaza’s borders to feed the besieged territory’s entire population for two months, has renewed its call for immediate ceasefire as the only way to get the food to starving Palestinians.
The UN’s food agency said in a statement that it brought 77 trucks loaded with flour into Gaza overnight and early today, but they were stopped by people trying to feed their starving families.
This comes as Israel and US are carrying on with their much-criticised plan to eliminate the WFP and other international aid organisations from the cycle of managing aid deliveries to the enclave.
