Gaza health system could collapse within hours, authorities say; Israel intensifies attacks on Jabaliya camp
Gaza’s health system could collapse in ‘few hours’, authorities say
Gaza’s health ministry has said the health system across the devastated enclave could collapse in a “few hours” without fuel for hospital generators.
“A few hours separate us from the collapse of the health system in the Gaza Strip as a result of the failure to bring in the fuel necessary to operate electricity generators in hospitals, ambulances, and transport employees,” the ministry was quoted by Al Jazeera as saying in a post on social media.
A senior Egyptian official has told The Associated Press that Cairo has lodged protests with Israel, the US and European governments, saying the war on Gaza has put its decades-old peace treaty with Israel – a cornerstone of regional stability – at high risk. No further information has been given.
The Egypt-Israel 1979 peace treaty made Egypt the first Arab state to forge peace with Israel and underpinned Washington’s relationship with Cairo during Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.
The Sinai peninsula, captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, was handed back to Egypt under the agreement, and diplomatic relations between Israel and Egypt were established.
Residents and medics said several people were killed and injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes on the Jabaliya refugee camp overnight.
Medics said they have been unable to send teams to some of the bombed areas because of the intensity of the Israeli bombardment but they have reports of fatalities.
Jabaliya is the largest of the Gaza Strip’s eight cinder-block refugee camps – which date to the 1948 war of Israel’s founding.
