What is Hamas, and what’s happening in Israel and Gaza?
What is happening in the Gaza Strip?
Hospitals in Gaza are admitting emergency cases only as fuel runs out, according to the World Health Organization.
The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, say is has significantly reduced its operations because it has almost exhausted its fuel reserves.
Small quantities of fuel retrieved from existing reserves are being used to maintain the water supply in the south of Gaza. However, they will run out soon.
An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman said Gaza still had fuel but “Hamas prefers to have all of the fuel for its warfighting capabilities, leaving civilians without it”.
More than 70 aid lorries have now entered the territory through the Rafah crossing with Egypt since Israel imposed a “complete siege” at the start of the conflict.
However, these have provided only a fraction of the needs of people in Gaza. Unrwa called it “a drop in the ocean of overwhelming needs”. About 500 lorries were allowed into Gaza every day before the start of the war.
An estimated 1.4 million people in Gaza have been displaced, according to the UN.
Hundreds of thousands moved from the north of the territory to the south, after being told by the Israeli military to leave for their own safety.
The WHO has also warned that it is “almost impossible” for patients in hospitals in northern Gaza to be evacuated.
The southern city of Khan Younis, normally home to 400,000 people, has seen its population increase to about 1.2 million. Many families are sharing homes, or sleeping in tents.
However, Israel has continued to carry out strikes on what it says are Hamas military targets in southern Gaza.
Some of those who initially fled the north of Gaza are now returning because the situation in the south is so bad, the UN has said.
The UN’s regional humanitarian chief has said: “Nowhere is safe in Gaza.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has suggested a temporary ceasefire to allow more aid to enter Gaza, and and EU leaders are also expected to call for one.
