Gaza – Ma’an – The head of the government media office in Gaza, Salama Marouf, confirmed that preventing the entry of cooking gas and fuel into the Strip threatens to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis.
Marouf said: ‘For the seventh month, the occupation continues to prevent the entry of cooking gas and various types of fuel into the Gaza Strip, especially to Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, which threatens to exacerbate the humanitarian and health crisis in light of the ongoing aggression against our people, as a result of the citizens’ reliance for many months on alternative primitive means of igniting fires.’ The fire was made from wood, charcoal, and building rubble, which caused hundreds of people to suffer from respiratory diseases due to the use of plastic and chemical materials to light the fires, which emit toxic gases.’
He added: “Hundreds of new cases of various respiratory diseases have been recorded, as a result of citizens’ reliance on lighting fires using the aforementioned methods for
long hours every day over the past months, whether to prepare food or heat water and even for lighting sometimes, which portends an increase in the seriousness of this crisis.” Citizens are afflicted with lung and respiratory cancer as a result of toxic gases emitted by these means.’
He continued: “This difficult humanitarian, health and environmental reality requires urgent intervention to put an end to this crisis, and to strive to provide citizens with the basic requirements, most notably cooking gas and fuel of various types. Otherwise, we warn of the worsening crisis of the lack of cooking gas and its danger to the lives of citizens who have been suffering from catastrophic conditions since… The aggression has begun, and we call on the international community and all concerned parties to put pressure on the occupation and move quickly to resolve this crisis and allow the entry of cooking gas and various types of fuel, knowing that preventing such basic life needs is a crime added to the crimes committ
ed by the occupation in light of the genocidal war it has been waging against our people since The seventh of last October.
Source: Maan News Agency
