Sylvain Groulx, Emergency Coordinator

In terms of the consequences due to the lack of fuel, well, the lack of fuel arriving Gaza over the last few days will have critical consequences on our operations.

We need to understand that all of the limited fuel that has been imported daily was automatically distributed and used and with very limited possibilities of building up a stock for the next few weeks.

In fact, hospitals only have a few days worth of stocks. And if we want to maintain, for example, incubators for newborns and be able to operate it on wounded patients, very, very often children this requires electricity.

We need to remember that Israel cut off the electricity supply during the start of the war. Therefore, hospitals and other basic needs such as bakeries, phone networks, or even banks now have to rely on these generators which require fuel.

So it's imperative that Israel, under its responsibilities as an occupying force to either provide the electricity or ensures that fuel is available in sufficient quantities, which means, obviously, the opening of border points.

It's also imperative that we are able to import our medical supplies, which are very crucial, to continue treating patients, which requires the passage of trucks through the border.

We need to also understand that when over two thirds of the hospitals, or medical structures in Gaza have either been destroyed or partially destroyed, it is becoming even more complicated to be able to offer basic and crucial needed, health services for the population.

We're seeing every day thousands of civilians who are forced to flee the onslaught of bombs in Rafah, many of them have fled many times from other areas to seek safe shelter. They're now told to go to Khan Yunis, which has been completely destroyed by the Israelis just a few weeks ago. Or they're told to flee to, Al Mawasi, which is a small area alongside the beach where they have to live in makeshift shelters or tents, with extremely limited access to clean drinking water, latrines, etc.. Their lives are completely uprooted and upended. Many have lost their livelihoods, all while trying to find anything in the market is becoming complicated because of the scarcity and also because the prices have skyrocketed.