The United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) has warned that it will be forced to suspend its operations starting this Wednesday night in the Gaza Strip due to lack of fuel.

UNRWA spokesperson Tamara Alrifai assured this Tuesday in statements to the BBC that if the agency does not get fuel In the next few hours you will not be able to work or collect aid entering through the Rafah crossing, unblocked for trucks with humanitarian material to enter.

“We need fuel for our desalination plants of water, so that people can have access to clean water. Hospitals need fuel for the machines, which save lives,” detailed Al Rifai, calling the situation “frustrating.”

UNRWA already warned on Sunday that it only had fuel to continue operating for three more days. “Without fuel there will be no water, hospitals and bakeries will not function. Without fuel, aid will not reach those who need it so much“said the Commissioner General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini.

Gaza institutions are beginning to seriously complain about this lack of fuel. A spokesman for the Ministry of Health of the Hamas government in Gaza, Ashraf al Qudra, called on gas station owners and the general population to donate immediately. “any amount of diesel” they have and take it to the hospitals “to save the lives of the wounded and sick.”