Hunger, disease 'inevitable' in Gaza as fuel runs out
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00:00 Humanitarian conditions deteriorating by the day in Gaza.
00:05 This street is one of many flooded with sewage.
00:08 Most water treatment facilities have shut down, leaving tens of thousands to queue for
00:13 safe water, while the UN Human Rights Chief says the total depletion of fuel supplies
00:18 in Gaza is imminent.
00:20 "It would be catastrophic across all of Gaza, leading to the complete collapse of water,
00:26 sewage and crucial health care services and ending the trickle of humanitarian assistance
00:33 that has been permitted to date.
00:35 Massive outbreaks of infectious disease and hunger seem inevitable."
00:40 At this hospital in southern Gaza, doctors were filmed treating patients by torchlight.
00:47 Only a quarter of Gaza's hospitals are still functioning, according to the WHO.
00:53 On Wednesday, the first fuel trucks crossed into Gaza, but the UN says Israel has put
00:58 conditions on the delivery.
01:00 It can only be used to refuel aid trucks, not hospital generators, nor the pumps at
01:06 water and sanitation facilities.
01:09 On Thursday, Israeli forces dropped leaflets warning civilians to flee parts of southern
01:13 Gaza, suggesting an expansion of their offensive to the zone where most of the territory's
01:18 population has fled.
01:21 Many of the displaced are living in tents, hit in recent days by torrential rain.
01:26 "We rarely have access to clean water.
01:30 Food and drinking water are scarce here.
01:33 The camp is in a desert filled with insects and snakes.
01:37 We are appealing to the whole world who's witnessing what we are going through, please
01:41 do something."
01:42 Meanwhile, Israel continues to pound Gaza with airstrikes.