UN: Gaza has food and water for 12 days

The UN agency for Palestine told Al Jazeera that Gaza has under two weeks’ supply of food and water after Israel cut all electricity, fuel, food and water to the besieged enclave. 

“We are relying on our staff, who are themselves refugees, who are going out to provide a service. It is a really unprecedented situation we are facing. We don’t turn anyone away,” Jennifer Austin, Deputy Director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Gaza, said. 

Hospitals in Gaza operating ‘beyond their capacity’

Palestinian Minister of Health doctor Mai al Kaila says that hospitals in Gaza are “working beyond their capacity to treat the wounded as a result of the occupation’s aggression, and as a result the hospitals in the Strip are out of service.”

She also warned against an impending “health disaster” as hospitals run out of fuel.

Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian organisation called on medical facilities to be respected following Israel’s bombardment of Gaza last night. 

“The situation in Gaza is catastrophic; the hospitals are overwhelmed. The number of wounded is extremely high – there is a constant influx into all the hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The medical teams are exhausted, working around the clock to treat the wounded,” Leo Cans, the head of their mission for Palestine said.