The first fuel truck crossed Egypt's Rafah Border Crossing to the Palestinian side since the beginning of the Gaza crisis on October 7, after the Hamas operation of "Al Aqsa Flood" (Tofan Al Aqsa), according to Cairo News.
Gaza is currently suffering from a shortage of fuel and it widely and badly impacted the performance of hospitals, along with the continued attacks of the Israeli forces against the hospitals.
Earlier this week, the United Nations warned that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is getting worse.
The UN said that aid trucks will stop moving by Tuesday without more fuel, and water wells have stopped pumping.
The head of the U.N.’s humanitarian office in East Jerusalem Andrea De Domenico said in a media briefing: “Humanitarian cease-fire, fuel, supplies — all of these should be happening now. We are running out of time before really facing a major disaster.”
De Domenico noted that 76 trucks with food, medicines, health supplies, bottled water, blankets, and other urgent supplies crossed from Egypt into Gaza on Sunday, but that by Tuesday they could come to a halt without urgently needed fuel.
“The trucks that will arrive starting from tomorrow, we will not simply be able to unload them because we don’t have the fuel for the forklift and we do not have the fuel for the trucks that distribute that assistance out to the people in need,” he warned.
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