RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The U.N.
warned on Wednesday that it is on the verge of running out of fuel in the Gaza Strip, forcing it to sharply curtail relief efforts in the territory blockaded and devastated by Israeli airstrikes since Hamas militants launched an attack on Israel more than two weeks ago.
The Israeli military said its strikes killed militants and destroyed tunnels, command centers, weapons storehouses and other military targets. It accuses Hamas of magnifying the suffering of Gazan civilians by hiding its fighters among them. Gaza’s population has been running out of food, water and medicine, too. About 1.4 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have fled their homes, with nearly half of them crowded into U.N. shelters.
“Do we give for the incubators or the bakeries? Do we bump clean water, or do we send trucks to the borders?” she said. “It is an excruciating decision.” On Wednesday evening, airstrikes leveled a large area in Gaza City’s Yarmouk neighborhood. Hamas’ Interior Ministry said at least 26 people were killed and more than 100 injured.
One airstrike Wednesday put out of service the runway at the international airport in the city of Aleppo, Syrian media reported. It was the fourth attack on the airport since the fighting began. The Gaza Health Ministry says more than 6,500 Palestinians have been killed in the war. The figure includes the disputed toll from an explosion at a hospital last week.
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