Gaza leaders plead for EU, Quartet support for fuel shortage

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Urgent and intensive communication is ongoing between Gaza leaders and the international community over the current fuel crisis....

Several letters were sent to leaders of EU member states via their representative offices in Jerusalem, the head of the European Commission Christian Berger, as well as to the offices of the International Middle East Quartet, Al-Wadieh said, asking that competent authorities step in and stop the situation in the Gaza Strip from deteriorating.

The letters asked the officials to interfere and prevent the fallout if the fuel station stopped working, he said.

"The cold is causing suffering for the people whose houses were demolished as a result of the war,” the official said, calling the current situation "dramatic" and asking what residents are supposed to do without electricity for eight to 10 hours a day...    Full story