Seven medical centers in Gaza have stopped services due to lack of fuel to power generators, the Hamas-run health ministry in the Strip says, two days after a hospital took similar steps.
Ashraf al-Qidre, spokesman for the ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, says the health situation has entered an “unprecedented stage” due to an electricity crisis.
He says the seven centers in different parts of Gaza will stop all services as they do not have the fuel to run backup generators.
On Monday, a hospital in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza announced it would transfer all its patients and stop services due to lack of fuel.
The Palestinian Authority, based in the West Bank and run by Hamas’s longtime rivals Fatah, accuses Hamas of exaggerating the problem, saying fuel and funding have been provided.
— AFP
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