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Gaza Medical Centers to Reopen After $2 Million UAE Grant

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
02/08/18
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Beds lie empty at Beit Hanun hospital in the Gaza Strip after it stopped its services on January 29, 2018 blaming a lack of fuel to power generators. Photo: AFP

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Financial aid received from the United Arab Emirates will help to reopen nearly 20 medical centres in Gaza which suffered from a fuel shortage, the World Health Organization announced Thursday.

Three hospitals and 16 medical centres had stopped offering key services in recent weeks as crippling fuel shortages meant they were unable to keep generators going, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said.

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— OFM (@OFMUAE) February 8, 2018

Gaza receives only a few hours of mains electricity a day, so hospitals and other vital services rely on private generators run with fuel provided by the United Nations.

After an emergency U.N. appeal, the UAE has pledged $2 million for fuel for the coming year, said Mahmoud Dahar, head of the WHO in Gaza.

“We have received an announcement from the UAE that they are going to fund two million, which will make the situation a bit easier for another few months,” he told AFP, adding that he expected the hospitals and centres to fully reopen “in the coming days.”

The ministry said it was awaiting official confirmation of the UAE funds and did not say when the centres would return to normal operations.

Israel has maintained a crippling blockade of Gaza for a decade which it says is necessary to isolate the territory’s Islamist leaders Hamas. Critics say it represents collective punishment of two million people. At present, more than two-thirds of Gazans rely on international aid.

Separately on Thursday, Egypt, which has also largely sealed its border with Gaza, opened the Rafah crossing for the first time in 2018. It is to remain open for three days. U.S. President Donald J. Trump has also withheld tens of millions in aid for Palestinians in recent weeks.

On Thursday, AIDA, a coalition of 70 international charities working in the Palestinian territories, said that decision would particularly affect Gaza. It said the funding cuts “will lead to increased food insecurity, aid dependency, poverty, isolation, unemployment and hopelessness.”

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