Ammon News - The United Nations' fuel supply in Gaza will run out in three days, a top official has warned, reiterating that supplies must be allowed into the besieged enclave.

"In three days, UNRWA will run out of fuel, critical for our humanitarian response across the Gaza Strip," Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner General for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said in a statement Sunday.

"Without fuel, there will be no water, no functioning hospitals and bakeries. Without fuel, aid will not reach many civilians in desperate need. Without fuel, there will be no humanitarian assistance."

The 20 aid trucks that managed to cross through the Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza on Saturday delivered food, water, medicine and medical supplies but no fuel, according to Egyptian border authorities.

Lazzarini emphasized that as the "largest humanitarian actor in the Gaza Strip," without fuel, the UNRWA is not able to "help the people of Gaza whose needs are growing by the hour."

"UNRWA is currently hosting more than half a million people out of nearly 1 million displaced across the Gaza Strip," he added.

"I call on all parties and those with influence over them to immediately allow fuel supplies into the Gaza Strip and to ensure that fuel is strictly used to prevent a collapse of the humanitarian response," Lazzarini continued.

Despite welcoming Saturday's convoy into Gaza, he stressed that the supplies delivered are "far from enough," maintaining that "to be meaningful, Gaza needs an uninterrupted and scaled up humanitarian supply line."

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