Gaza health disaster due to ending Israeli fuel supplies, ambulances stopped, doctors cannot reach hospitals, patients dying slowly

Gaza health ministry issues urgent appeals to humanitarian organizations

[ 13/04/2008 - 02:05 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The health ministry in Gaza issued Sunday an urgent appeal to all humanitarian organizations to move rapidly to stop what it termed as a "criminal series" in Gaza, holding the international community fully responsible after it preferred to step aside and remain silent watching the Israeli crimes committed everyday against the Palestinian people.

In a press statement received by the PIC, the ministry stated that ambulance service stopped transferring injuries and patients after fuel supplies were depleted and Palestinian doctors are unable to reach their work places because of lack of sufficient transport means, while patients in hospitals are surrounded by the specter of death.

Gaza hospital suffer from sever shortage of all types of blood units because of the increasing numbers of Palestinians wounded by the ongoing Israeli aggression in addition to average patients who are hospitalized everyday.

In another context, director-general of the Gaza power station Rafiq Maliha warned that the station would shot down during the coming days which would lead to complete paralysis in all service sectors unless the IOA provided the Strip with fuel.

For his part, MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against the siege, warned that the shutdown of the power plant means that everything would come to a standstill and complete destruction in Gaza.

For its part, Ayman Taha, a prominent Hamas leader, categorically denied the news reported by the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper and parroted by a number of Egyptian officials and writers that Egypt allowed in large quantities of fuel and gas to Gaza Strip.

In an exclusive press release to the PIC, Taha underlined that the problem is not in humanitarian aid here and there, but the problem lying in this Israeli siege which heralds a great humanitarian disaster leading to an explosion, no one could predict its whereabouts, timing or direction if it is not lifted, pointing out that the Rafah border crossing is completely sealed.

Sources in the caretaker government and the society of gas stations also told the PIC that the news of Al-Ahram newspaper is completely unfounded.

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