Gaza rescuers say no fuel left for 75 per cent of their vehicles
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Haneen al-Khazandar cares for her 10-year-old daughter Mira who was severely burned on her arms and chest when an Israeli army strike hit near her tent, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. AP
Gaza's civil defence agency said on Thursday that a lack of fuel had forced three-quarters of its emergency vehicles to stop operating, more than two months into an Israeli aid blockade.
"Seventy-five percent of our vehicles have stopped operating due to a lack of diesel fuel," the agency's spokesman Mahmud Bassal told the media, adding that its first responders were also facing a "severe shortage of electric generators and oxygen devices".
Agence France-Presse