GAZA, January 8, 2025 (WAFA) – Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, said on Wednesday that health services will be suspended with the exception of intensive care and operations departments due to the fuel shortage crisis.

Nasser Complex explained in a statement that all health services provided in the complex have stopped, with the exception of critical departments, which are intensive care, emergency operations, the artificial kidney, the oxygen station, and the lighting of the emergency department.

It warned of a humanitarian and health disaster that threatens the lives of patients by suffocating them in intensive care beds, noting that the complex's generators have completely stopped, and that only a small generator is working now.

The medical complex pointed out that the amount of fuel in the complex is sufficient to operate the small generator for only three hours, stressing that the complex needs 5,500 liters of diesel per day to ensure the continuation of medical services.

It appealed to all international bodies and institutions to intervene urgently to bring in fuel to ensure the continuation of medical services.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that "hospitals in Gaza have become death traps."

In a post on X, it explained that families in "Gaza are torn apart, children are children are freezing to death, starvation is cutting lives short."

UNRWA's statements come in light of the ongoing bombing and direct targeting of hospitals, as the three public hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, which are Kamal Adwan, Beit Hanoun, and the Indonesian Hospital, have become out of service due to the escalation of the occupation's aggression.

Only 14 hospitals out of 36 in Gaza are now partially operating, and are facing a severe shortage of supplies, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

K.T