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UN warns Gaza lifelines at risk as fuel blockade, displacement orders and denied convoys reduce aid
Summary
United Nations briefers said fuel deliveries and shelter supplies remain blocked into Gaza, putting water, health services and humanitarian operations at immediate risk and prompting warnings from UNICEF and WHO about child deaths and mental health emergencies.
A United Nations spokesperson warned on Monday that life-saving services in the Gaza Strip are at risk as fuel and shelter supplies remain largely blocked, humanitarian movements are being denied and new displacement orders affect tens of thousands of people.
The spokesperson said that fuel stored in Rafah was accessed and allocated to run critical services in the south, “thereby buying us some more time,” but stressed that unless fuel is delivered inside Gaza, “these lifelines were very quickly shut down.” The statement noted that fuel is essential “to produce and to treat and to distribute water to more than…
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