New Delhi: The UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) has said that it will have to suspend its aid operations in Gaza by tomorrow (November 15) due to fuel shortages.“Our trucks have run out of fuel – we will not be able to receive aid coming [through] the Rafah crossing tomorrow,” UNRWA’s Gaza chief Thomas White said on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday (November 13).DW reported him as saying that UNRWA had been using fuel from a reservoir, but this had now run out and that no fuel had entered the enclave since October 7.On that date, Hamas – the socio-political and military organisation that controls the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory – launched terrorist attacks against Israel.“We will not be able to drive our cars and deliver flour to bakeries, we will not be able to give any fuel to medical facilities – we did that today, that was the last run,” the BBC quoted Juliette Touma, UNRWA’s director of communications, as saying.She added: “We have 780,000 people sheltering with us – we will not be able to serve them.”Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital ‘nearly a cemetery’As the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas intensifies in the strip’s northern half, the al-Shifa hospital there has struggled to function properly.A spokesperson for the WHO told the BBC that dead bodies were lying around the hospital, unable to be buried or taken away to morgues.“The hospital is not working at all any more as it should. It’s nearly a cemetery,” the spokesperson was quoted as saying.Gaza’s health ministry said that the al-Shifa hospital conducts nearly half of all the medical operations that take place in the strip, news agency AP reported.While Israel said it is willing to allow staff and patients to leave al-Shifa, AP reported Palestinians as saying that Israeli forces have fired at people trying to evacuate the hospital.Meanwhile, news reports say that fuel shortages at the hospital are causing the deaths of patients, including newborns.Dr Mohamed Abu Selmia, al-Shifa’s manager, told the BBC that seven premature babies at the hospital died after power cuts caused staff to shift babies out of incubators.He also said that dogs had started eating rotting bodies at al-Shifa and that Israeli authorities had not granted permission for those bodies to leave the hospital to be buried.Also Read: As Palestinians Confront a Second Nakba, the Relationship Between Israel and Hamas is ‘Complicated’Israeli authorities – who claim that Hamas has tunnels and a command centre under al-Shifa – reportedly left cans of fuel on the street for the hospital’s use, but said that Hamas had stopped them from being used.The BBC reported doctors as saying that the fuel left was insufficient even for an hour’s use.Israel’s President Isaac Herzog denied that Israel was striking the hospital and told the BBC that “there’s electricity in Shifa” and “everything is operating” there.No expectations from IndiaPalestine’s ambassador to India Adnan Abu Alhaijaa added that doctors at al-Shifa were “performing operations in a normal room … on the floor [and] not in the operation theatre” due to lack of electricity.He was quoted as saying by the Indian Express that India “did nothing” for Palestine.“I am not expecting anything from India. I have called them many many times. They did nothing.“We have seen the India-US 2+2 statement where they are supporting Israel…So I’m not expecting anything from India,” he said according to IE.The war between Israel and Hamas is also having an impact on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.According to the UN’s humanitarian affairs body, 168 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, and an additional eight have been killed by Israeli settlers. Three Israelis have been killed in attacks by Palestinians.Hamas’s October 7 attack killed at least 1,200 people living in southern Israeli communities close to the Gaza Strip and saw at least 239 taken captive, currently being held hostage in Gaza.The attack has sparked ongoing retaliatory strikes from Israel and a ground offensive in Gaza. According to the Hamas-led health ministry, Israeli bombardment of the closed-off territory has since killed more than 11,000 Palestinians in Gaza.Rockets are still being fired towards Israel.With inputs from DW.