GAZA: Fuel for emergency generators that keep Gaza’s hospitals and sanitation services operating will run out within 10 days, the United Nations said on Tuesday in an appeal for immediate donor support. The shortage stems from a dispute between Gaza’s dominant Hamas Islamist group and the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA). Officials at the affected facilities said they were directing seriously ill patients to other health facilities and operating at limited capacity. He said doctors were providing primary health care and, in emergency cases, transferring patients to other hospitals after stabilising them. The PA said Hamas had failed to transfer money collected from the sale of medicine to patients in Gaza, funds the Authority uses to buy the fuel.

Source: New Strait Times February 06, 2018 15:00 UTC