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World Health Organization: 24 hours left for aid to enter Gaza before ‘catastrophe’
The World Health Organization warns there are only “24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left” in the Gaza Strip before “a real catastrophe” sets in.
WHO regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean Ahmed Al-Mandhari says the Strip must be allowed to receive convoys of aid, currently stuck at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
If assistance does not arrive, doctors will have to “prepare death certificates for their patients,” he claims, talking with AFP.