The United Nations has said it will have to suspend humanitarian work in the Gaza Strip within hours unless it receives fresh fuel supplies.
Assistant Secretary General Angela Kane said the distribution of food aid to 650,000 refugees and the collection of rubbish from 500,000 people would stop.
Israeli sanctions imposed in an attempt to force the Palestinian group Hamas to stop rocket fire have caused shortages.
But Israel says Hamas is deliberately preventing fuel from being distributed.
It says there are a million litres of fuel at a border terminal which Gaza fuel distributors, with the backing of Hamas, have refused to collect in protest at the Israeli restrictions.
Fuel crisis threatens UN Gaza aid
The United Nations has said it will have to suspend humanitarian work in the Gaza Strip within hours unless it receives fresh fuel supplies.
Assistant Secretary General Angela Kane said the distribution of food aid to 650,000 refugees and the collection of rubbish from 500,000 people would stop.
Israeli sanctions imposed in an attempt to force the Palestinian group Hamas to stop rocket fire have caused shortages.
But Israel says Hamas is deliberately preventing fuel from being distributed.
It says there are a million litres of fuel at a border terminal which Gaza fuel distributors, with the backing of Hamas, have refused to collect in protest at the Israeli restrictions.
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