Gaza Strip: Civil Defense Faces Crisis, Lack of Means and Fuel
Palestine Red Crescent Workers, June 2024 Photo: PRSC
June 12, 2024 Hour: 10:12 pm
Basal called on the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross and human rights organizations to provide excavators and bulldozers, as well as diesel, to allow the institution to resume its work.
On Wednesday, the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip announced that it is close to paralyzing its work due to the lack of fuel and necessary equipment because of the Israeli attacks and blockade.
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The agency’s spokesman, Mahmoud Basal, assured that the situation is most critical in the north of the coastal enclave, the area hardest hit by that country’s aggression in the last eight months.
“In the midst of the ongoing war, we need about 300 liters of fuel per day to carry out our functions,” the spokesman said in a statement.
“We receive many calls from people with relatives under the rubble to recover their loved ones, but unfortunately we do not have the heavy equipment to start extraction operations,” he said.
Basal called on the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross and human rights organizations to provide excavators and bulldozers, as well as diesel, to allow the institution to resume its work.
The authorities of that territory estimate that some 10,000 people are buried under the buildings destroyed by Israeli army bombs.
On repeated occasions, the United Nations and other global organizations, such as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, have asked Israel to protect humanitarian and health workers in the Strip.
According to official data, of the total number of fatalities in the territory since October 7, almost 500 are in the health sector, 67 in civil defense and more than 250 were humanitarian workers.
Autor: OSG
Fuente: Aljazeera-DW
