GAZA, (PIC)-- The caretaker government in the Gaza Strip stated that allowing in small quantities of fuel supplies is an Israeli attempt to pull the wool over the eyes and to absorb the media attention to the worsening humanitarian crisis in the besieged Strip, pointing out the quantities of diesel and cooking gas allowed in on Monday are not enough for one day.

In the context of the siege repercussions, Hasan Khalaf, the director of the Shifa hospital, warned that immanent mass death of patients may occur in Gaza hospitals if electricity is cut off as a result of the fuel crisis, pointing out that any power cut for half an hour in the Shifa hospital alone will lead to the death of 68 patients including 30 children.

Khalaf also said that the health and environmental situation in Gaza is deteriorating rapidly because of the Israeli siege imposed two years ago, denouncing at the same time the US support, and the Arab and European silence towards the siege.

In a press statement received by the PIC, Taher Al-Nunu, the spokesman for the government called on the international community, the Arab and Islamic states and the concerned international organizations to urgently intervene to save Gaza from the exacerbating humanitarian catastrophe as a result of the fuel crisis.

The spokesman also called on all media outlets to focus on and expose the Israeli crimes in Gaza and the West Bank as well as the political arrests carried out by the PA security apparatuses in the West Bank against Palestinian citizens especially women.