Gaza hospitals will run out of fuel in two days, says UN
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Gaza’s 2.3 million civilians faced a deepening struggle for food, water and safety Sunday and braced for a looming invasion a week after Hamas militants launched a deadly assault on Israel. While hundreds of thousands sought to heed Israel’s order to evacuate the north, others huddled at hospitals there.
The U.N. and aid groups say such a rapid exodus, along with Israel’s complete siege of the 40-kilometer-long coastal territory would cause untold human suffering. The Israeli military said “hundreds of thousands” of Palestinians had heeded the warning and headed south. It gave Palestinians a six-hour window that ended Saturday afternoon to travel safely within Gaza along two main routes, but has not set a firm deadline for the evacuation.
“We are going to attack Gaza City very broadly soon,” he said, without giving a timetable for the attack. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meanwhile met with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh as the Biden administration scrambles to prevent a wider regional conflict. Prince Mohammed is the sixth Arab leader Blinken has met since he arrived in the Middle East Thursday.
Most of the victims were women and children, the authorities said. Doctors from Kamal Edwan Hospital shared footage of charred and disfigured bodies. Basic necessities were running out because of the siege, which Israel has said will only be lifted when the captives are returned.
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