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Gaza blockade stopping UN aid
The UN says it has no choice but to suspend humanitarian work in Gaza because of a continuing fuel blockade.
- Agencies
- Published: 13:27 April 24, 2008
- Image Credit: AP
- In this file photo, protesters place eseless petrol pumps on a main road in Gaza City during a demonstration against Israeli sanctions.
Gaza: A UN aid agency said it has no choice but to suspend humanitarian work in Gaza because of a continuing fuel blockade by Israel.
Food aid and sewage collection for 650,000 Palestinian refugees will stop on Thursday if Israel does not permit more fuel to enter the Gaza strip, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
UNRWA said it uses 7,000 litres a day for its food distribution operations and that fuel needed for its vehicles in Gaza would run out on Thursday.
After UNRWA's statement, Palestinian fuel distributors in the Gaza Strip offered to help, agreeing to provide an emergency shipment to the UN aid agency.
Mahmoud Al Khuzundar of the Association for Petrol Station Owners in the Gaza Strip said 50,000 litres of diesel would be delivered to the agency.
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