In a statement, the non-governmental organization described the measure as “a tool of massacre and forced displacement.”

The refusal to allow the entry of diesel represents certain death for most patients and reflects a systematic policy deliberately aimed at destroying the health system, it stressed.

“We have observed a rapid spread of some infectious diseases, including meningitis, as a result of the collapse of the health sector and the inability to treat wastewater,” it warned.

The Monitor denounced that the Israeli armed forces cause the deaths of large numbers of civilians in the coastal enclave on a daily basis as a result of its policies of blockade and deprivation.

Many of the deceased are not officially registered as war victims because they did not die in military attacks, he warned.

The NGO called on the UN and international aid organizations to take immediate, collective action “to put an end to Israeli crimes.”

It stressed that all states must assume their legal responsibilities to stop the systematic human rights violations committed by the IDF in that territory.

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