UN warns Gaza fuel shortage will stop aid work by end of day

UN warns Gaza fuel shortage will stop aid work by end of day

GAZA STRIP, Occupied Palestine — The main UN aid agency in besieged Gaza warned it will have to stop operations by the end of Wednesday because it is running out of fuel as Hamas said the death toll from Israeli strikes had surged by more than 700 in a single day.

Alarm has grown about the spiralling humanitarian crisis in the heavily bombarded Gaza Strip where one doctor said he was forced to perform emergency surgery on the wounded without anaesthetic.

Israel has cut off impoverished Gaza's usual water, food and other supplies, and fewer than 70 relief trucks have entered since the war started, "a drop of aid in an ocean of need", warned UN chief Antonio Guterres.