Gaza’s Al-Awda Hospital has resumed limited operations after the World Health Organization delivered 2,500 liters of diesel, a stopgap supply expected to last roughly two and a half days amid a deepening fuel crisis and a fragile truce in the territory.
The hospital in central Gaza’s Nuseirat district had temporarily halted most services earlier in the day because its generators were nearly dry, according to senior hospital manager Ahmed Mehanna. Al-Awda typically cares for about 60 in-patients and receives nearly 1,000 people seeking treatment daily.
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“Most services have been temporarily stopped due to a shortage of the fuel needed for the generators,” Mehanna said, noting only the emergency unit, maternity ward and pediatrics remained operational with the help of a rented small generator. Under normal conditions, Al-Awda consumes 1,000 to 1,200 liters of diesel a day but had just 800 liters on hand before the WHO delivery.
“This evening, 2,500 liters of fuel arrived from the World Health Organization, and we immediately resumed operations,” Mehanna said later, warning the hospital could face another shutdown if additional deliveries do not arrive as promised next Sunday.
Acting director Mohammed Salha accused Israeli authorities of deliberately restricting fuel to local health facilities. “We are knocking on every door to continue providing services, but while the occupation allows fuel for international institutions, it restricts it for local health facilities such as Al-Awda,” he told AFP. Israeli officials did not immediately comment on his allegation. Gaza’s health system, battered by more than two years of war, has struggled for months with power, medicine and staffing shortages.
In Lebanon, the Israeli military said it killed a member of Iran’s Quds Force in a strike near the southern town of Ansariyeh, identifying him as Hussein Mahmoud Marshad al-Jawhari, a key operative in the force’s Unit 840. Israel said al-Jawhari had been involved in planning attacks from Syria and Lebanon and operated under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The military did not provide further details on how he was killed. There was no immediate comment from Iran or Lebanese authorities.
Israel has conducted near-daily strikes in Lebanon as it seeks to curb Hezbollah’s capabilities following a brief war in June. A U.S.-backed ceasefire reached in November 2024 ended more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and called for the armed group’s disarmament in areas adjacent to Israel, but tensions and exchanges of fire have persisted.
Inside Israel, police said a Palestinian from the Israeli-occupied West Bank carried out a deadly rolling attack in the north, killing a man and a woman before being shot and wounded. The incident began in the city of Beit Shean when a 68-year-old pedestrian was fatally struck by a vehicle, police said. A young woman was later stabbed near Road 71, and the suspect was engaged by a civilian near Maonot Junction in Afula. Israel’s emergency service provider Magen David Adom said both victims died of their injuries and reported a 16-year-old was slightly injured after being hit by a vehicle. The Israeli military said the attacker had “infiltrated into Israeli territory several days ago.”
The violence followed a separate incident a day earlier in the West Bank, when an Israeli military reservist dressed in civilian clothes rammed his vehicle into a Palestinian man after previously firing shots in the area, according to the military. The reservist, whose military service has been terminated, acted in “severe violation of his authority,” the army said, adding that his weapon was confiscated. Israeli media reported he is under house arrest. The Palestinian man was checked at a hospital and later released without serious injury. Video aired on Palestinian television showed a man praying by the roadside as an off-road vehicle struck him.
Rights monitors have described this year as among the most violent on record for Israeli civilian attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank. United Nations data show more than 750 injuries in such incidents. Between Oct. 7, 2023, and Oct. 17, 2025, more than 1,000 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank—mostly in operations by security forces and some by settler violence—while 57 Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks, according to the U.N.
The developments underscored a region still on edge: a precarious truce in Gaza, a volatile frontier in Lebanon and a cycle of retaliatory attacks across Israel and the West Bank, with civilians increasingly caught in the middle and aid operations straining to meet urgent needs.
By Abdiwahab Ahmed
Axadle Times international–Monitoring.
