RABAT, December 1. /TASS/. Palestine’s Gaza Strip needs 1,000 truckloads of humanitarian aid and one million liters (over 264,172 gallons) of fuel every day, a representative of the enclave’s government said on Friday.
"The Gaza Strip has a daily need for 1,000 trucks carrying humanitarian aid and one million liters of fuel," the representative told Al Jazeera television.
"We call on Arab and Islamic countries to set up field hospitals equipped to care for the wounded," he continued.
According to him, the Gaza Strip also needs special equipment to clear the debris and retrieve from under the rubble the bodies of those killed as a result of Israeli bombardments.
"We hold the occupant [Israel] and the international community, especially Washington, fully responsible for the war," he added.
Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip.
Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. In response, Israel announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians, and began delivering air strikes on the enclave and certain parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are underway in the West Bank as well.
Hamas announced on November 22 that an agreement on a four-day humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip had been reached through the mediation of Qatar and Egypt. The Gaza ceasefire took effect at 7:00 a.m. local time (5:00 a.m. GMT) on November 24.
The agreement stipulates the release of women and teenagers under the age of 19 who are held in Gaza in exchange for the release of women and teenagers under the age of 19 from Israeli prisons. On November 27, the parties agreed to extend the truce for two more days and on the morning of November 30, it was extended for another day.
On Friday morning, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire and announced the resumption of combat operations in the embattled Gaza Strip.