The World Health Organization (WHO) in a press release on Tuesday said that the restrictions on the humanitarian flow of food and medicine are impeding its operations in Gaza. Though Israel has eased some border restrictions recently to allow humanitarian supplies through, the World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned of the health situation of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip following the electricity blackout on Sunday and a looming fuel shortage. “WHO consignments of essential medicines and consumables have recently been delayed at the border,” the statement said. “In Gaza, the lack of electrical power, arising from a fuel shortage, and restrictions on the movement of people of people and goods, including medicines, jeopardize the continuity of basic health care and curtail access to specialist care outside Gaza.” UN Humanitarian Coordinator Maxwell Gaylard said on Tuesday that the closure of the Karni crossing into Gaza, where most humanitarian supplies cross into the area, “is of mounting concern.” The World Health Organization is calling for “the restoration of electricity to health facilities, lifting of restrictions on the movement of medicines and essential commodities to Gaza, and for patients to have access to health care outside Gaza.”
