Reserves of fuel at all hospitals across the Gaza Strip are expected to last only around 24 more hours, putting thousands of patients at risk, the United Nations humanitarian office (OCHA) said on Monday.
Freezer trucks with images of smiling children enjoying ice cream cones used to make deliveries to supermarkets in central Gaza Israel has announced plans to evacuate residents of 28 villages near the Lebanese border.Fuel across Gaza hospitals is expected to last around 24 more hours, the United Nations' humanitarian office says'. The US embassy in Israel reports the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will open for a limited time
Now they are makeshift morgues for victims of the Israel-Gaza war.
Health officials in the Gaza Strip have resorted to storing the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes in ice cream freezer trucks because moving them to hospitals is too risky and cemeteries are short of space.
"The hospital morgue can only take 10 bodies, so we have brought in ice cream freezers from the ice cream factories in order to store the huge numbers of [dead]," said Dr Yasser Ali of the Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir Al-Balah.
Struggling to cope with growing numbers of injured, hospitals across Gaza are running short of supplies — and now, fuel.
More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed — the vast majority civilians — in the October 7 attacks by Hamas militants.
The Gaza Health Ministry said 2,750 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched counter strikes.
