NEW YORK, October 24. /TASS/. The Palestinian radical movement Hamas has accused Israel of committing a crime against humanity, citing its ban on fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip, CNN reports.

"The Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza has no electricity due to fuel shortages, Hamas said in a statement early Tuesday, accusing Israel of a ‘crime against humanity’," the media outlet said.

Hamas also called on the United Nations, Arab and Muslim countries to take action to immediately provide fuel to hospitals. "We warn against the consequences of negligence in providing fuel, which means sentencing all the sick and wounded in hospitals to death," CNN quoted the statement as saying.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health, in turn, said that hospitals in the enclave were nearing collapse, operating at more than 150% of their capacity. Ten of the 35 hospitals in Gaza are currently non-functional, the ministry added, according to CNN.

Mark Regev, senior advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told CNN earlier on Monday that Tel Aviv would not allow fuel to enter the Gaza Strip because "it will be stolen by Hamas and it'll be used by them to power rockets that are fired into Israel to kill our people." According to him, this has happened before.

Tensions in the Middle East flared up again after Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7. The Palestinian movement described its attack as a response to the actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Israel announced a total blockade of Gaza and started carrying out strikes on the Palestinian enclave, as well as on certain areas in Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.