{"id":12520,"date":"2018-08-23T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12520"},"modified":"2018-08-23T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T17:23:14","slug":"gaza-running-out-of-fuel-medicine-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12520","title":{"rendered":"Gaza running out of fuel, medicine \u2014 UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1360871\/middle-east\" readability=\"40\">\n<p>\nUNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has run out of funding to pay for fuel needed for hospitals, water plants and other critical facilities in the Gaza Strip, the UN political chief said Wednesday.<br \/>Rosemary Di Carlo also told the Security Council that recent violent escalations between Israel and Palestinian militants \u201cthreatened to plunge Gaza into war.\u201d<br \/>The Security Council held its monthly meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the United Nations was working with Egypt to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and halt the violence.<br \/>Di Carlo said she was \u201cdeeply concerned that funding for UN emergency fuel, which sustains some 250 critical facilities in Gaza has now run out\u201d and appealed for $4.5 million to ensure essential services for the rest of the year.<br \/>The UN undersecretary-general for political affairs also raised concern over a \u201cdangerously short supply of essential medicines\u201d after 40 percent of the stocks of drugs were completely depleted.<br \/>Gaza has seen a surge of violence since Palestinian protests that began in March have been met with Israeli fire, killing 171 Palestinians.<br \/>Israel has carried out strikes in Gaza at least 125 times in response to rocket attacks fired toward Israeli towns and cities.<br \/>UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov and Egyptian officials have been seeking to broker a truce between Israel and Hamas, which rules Gaza. The two sides have fought three wars since 2008.<br \/>Israeli media have speculated that a deal could entail easing Israel\u2019s crippling blockade of Gaza in exchange for calm on the border and the return of the bodies of two soldiers killed in 2014.<br \/>Israel is also seeking the return of two Israeli citizens believed held by Hamas.<br \/>Di Carlo called \u201con all parties\u201d to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches Gaza and urged Hamas to provide information on Israeli nationals held in the strip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has run out of funding to pay for fuel needed for hospitals, water plants and other critical facilities in the Gaza Strip, the UN political chief said Wednesday.Rosemary Di Carlo also told the Security Council that recent violent escalations between Israel and Palestinian militants \u201cthreatened to plunge Gaza into war.\u201dThe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}