“The situation in Gaza is absolutely desperate.”
The UN agency that provides food for Palestinian refugees says it can continue to distribute aid in Gaza for another 20 days
The situation is deteriorating every day, with waste, water supply and transport problems increasing.
John Ging of the UN's UNRRWA said, "Now the estimate is that 60,000 litres [of raw sewage] per day is being pumped into the sea simply because there is no fuel to run the plant that's needed to treat that sewage," he told Al Jazeera.
Mike Hanna, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza, had said that the fuel crisis was, "a very dire situation indeed. Seen in a wider context, this is just one issue that is plaguing Gazans every single day."
"In the wider scheme of things, the situation in Gaza is absolutely desperate. This is a humanitarian crisis."
Israel imposed a punishing blockade on the Gaza Strip after Hamas took control of it nearly a year ago...
It says it will only consider easing the blockade if there is a complete end to cross-border attacks by Palestinian armed groups. However, in Cairo last month, 12 Palestinian factions, including Hamas, agreed to observe a six-month ceasefire, on condition that Israel end the blockade and stop its cross-border raids.