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AMNESTY: Israel carried out indiscriminate attacks during the Gaza war Jul 02 09 Red Cross: 'Gazans still living in despair, unable to rebuild their ho... Jul 01 09 Red Cross: '1.5 Million Palestinians living in despair in Gaza' Jun 29 09 Latest News ArticlesIsraeli sub crosses the Egyptian Suez Peninsula. 11:01 Sat 04 Jul Bahraini officials arrive in Israel to take five Bahraini nationals back home 10:24 Sat 04 Jul Israel cuts off water to Arab Druze towns on hottest day of year 01:49 Sat 04 Jul Israel pledges to compensate UN for shelling its facilities in Gaza 23:53 Fri 03 Jul Three children diagnosed with swine-flu 23:31 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers attack the Nil'in weekly Protest 17:26 Fri 03 Jul Three Injured during the weekly Bil'in protest 16:13 Fri 03 Jul Israeli Housing Minister Concerned over increasing Arab population 11:32 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers wound a Palestinian woman at a roadblock in the Jordan valley 08:04 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers break into the Al Aqsa Mosque yard, kidnap three Palestinians 05:37 Fri 03 Jul Full StoryUN Agency: If Israel doesn't supply fuel, food distribution will stop Thursday April 24, 2008 01:00 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News
 The head of the United Nations Refugee Works Agency commented on Wednesday that the Agency's food distribution program in the Gaza Strip will have to be halted unless Israel supplies fuel to the Gaza Strip immediately. John Ging, the chief of the U.N. Refugee and Works Agency in Gaza, stated that the Agency's fuel supply will run out on Thursday, and they will be unable to deliver needed food supplies to the 860,000 registered refugees in need.
860,000 of Gaza's 1.4 million people receive aid from UNWRA, and an additional 270,000 are serviced by the U.N.'s World Food Program.
Since Israel put the Gaza Strip under siege last year, completely sealing the borders of the occupied territory, the Israeli government has allowed just a trickle of fuel to enter the Gaza Strip. Since April 9th, that trickle has stopped completely, and any fuel that may have been available in the Strip has been completely used up.
Israel has made no commitment as to when or whether it will allow fuel shipments through the sealed border. |
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