{"id":139,"date":"2023-10-28T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/?p=139"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:31:11","slug":"water-supply-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Water supply in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Detailed overview<\/a> concerning supplies\/lack of water, electricity and fuel in Gaza by \u201cTimes of Israel\u201d, explaining what is still working and what is not. Obligations to provide fuel (which is a dual-use good) as humanitarian relief under international law are weaker than obligations to provide food, water and medication, and Hamas of course has fuel to keep its military running. However, medium-term advantages for Hamas, which will not run out of fuel quickly anyways, even without diverting humanitarian relief, and the danger of some explosives built from stolen fuel, have to be weighed against the grave immediate humanitarian impact, when hospitals are not operational, when people cannot be freed under rubble without excavators, when desalination and water pumps are only partially in service. All major allies of Israel, including the US, the UK, France and the EU have called for a humanitarian firepause, which would allow international organisations to deliver diesel, medication, food etc. safely and move some sick and injured to safer places where they can be better treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIsrael has insisted that it is not responsible for the provision of energy to the enemy enclave and that Hamas has stockpiled fuel to enable it to operate its tunnel network and run its war machine against the Jewish state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus told the BBC on Thursday that Hamas has stockpiled between 850,000 to one million liters of fuel, which could be used for diesel-powered generators to operate water facilities or power hospitals. [\u2026]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only 23 of Gaza\u2019s 35 hospitals are currently functioning, according to the WHO\u2019s emergency situation report on October 23, with bed occupancy above 100 percent in the seven major hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other 12 hospitals have closed due to damage from Israeli airstrikes and fuel shortages, a WHO official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The official said that 1,000 patients in the territory are currently dependent on dialysis machines, along with 130 premature babies who need a range of care, and intensive care patients or those requiring surgery \u201cwho depend on a stable and uninterrupted supply of electricity to stay alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018WHO reiterates its call for safe passage for the delivery of health supplies and fuel throughout the Gaza Strip,\u2019 the official said. [\u2026]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Rettig said that eventually he believed Israel would have to supply diesel to avoid a humanitarian crisis in the hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018You can say Hamas needs to provide diesel, but they won\u2019t, so Israel will have to do so to avoid a crisis, you don\u2019t want hospitals to run out of electricity,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Detailed overview concerning supplies\/lack of water, electricity and fuel in Gaza by \u201cTimes of Israel\u201d, explaining what is still working and what is not. Obligations to provide fuel (which is a dual-use good) as humanitarian relief under international law are weaker than obligations to provide food, water and medication, and Hamas of course has fuel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}