Gaza hospital suffering fuel shortage is gifted fuel for two days The World Health Organisation provided a major Gaza hospital with enough fuel on Friday to operate for around two days after it announced it would have to suspend several services due to shortages. Earlier on Friday, a senior official at Al-Awda hospital said it would have to suspend several services due to a diesel shortags and would only operate the emergency unit,  maternity and paediatric wards. The official - Ahmed Mehanna - said later on Friday that Al-Awda would resume some operations on Friday after receiving additional fuel but warned the supplies would only last about two days. The Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza's Nuseirat district receives nearly 1,000 people seeking medical treatment each day, and cares for around 60 inpatients. Under normal conditions, it consumes between 1,000 and 1,200 litres of diesel per day, but it only had around 800 litres available. Mehanna said that 2,500 litres of fuel had arrived from the World Health Organisation and they had "immediately resumed operations." we immediately resumed operations."