Gaza Hospital to Suspend Services Due to Fuel Shortage

Director of Beit Hanoun Hospital in Gaza Jameel Sulaiman on Tuesday warned that the hospital may close within two days due to power shortage.

News ID: 443044

Date: 17 January 2019 - 15:49

RNA - Sulaiman said in a press statement that the power generators of the hospital, which offers services to 340,000 Palestinians, will stop working in the coming two days because of the growing fuel shortage, Palinfo reported.

Spokesman for Gaza's Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qedra called on concerned authorities to urgently work toward ending the power crisis in Gaza hospitals and other health facilities.

Al-Qedra warned of a possible halt of services at Gaza hospitals threatening the lives of many.

For more than nine months, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have demonstrated along the fence demanding their right to return to the homes and land their families were expelled from 70 years ago. The Great March of Return rallies culminated on May 15 to mark what Palestinians refer to as the Nakba, or Catastrophe - a reference to the forced removal of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and villages to clear the way for Israel's establishment in 1948.

Nearly 250 Palestinian protesters have been killed and more than 25,000 Palestinians injured by Israeli forces since the outbreak of the Great March of Return rallies at Gaza border in late March.

Most of the casualties occurred on May 14 when Israeli forces attacked Palestinians marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of historical Palestine and the ensuing ethnic cleansing of half a million Palestinian refugees.

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