Gaza's civil defence agency said Thursday that a lack of fuel had forced three-quarters of its emergency vehicles to stop operating, more than two months into a total Israeli siege preventing the entry of all aid.
"Seventy-five percent of our vehicles have stopped operating due to a lack of diesel fuel," the agency's spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP, adding that its first responders were also facing a "severe shortage of electric generators and oxygen devices".
Gaza's civil defence agency said an Israeli airstrike killed five people in the north of the war-ravaged Palestinian territory early Thursday.
Several more were wounded in the strike "today at dawn on the home of the Abu Rayyan family in the town of Beit Lahiya", north of Gaza City, the agency's spokesperson, Mahmoud Basal, told AFP.
It followed an Israeli bombardment a day earlier that rescuers in Gaza said killed 59 people, most of them in Gaza City.