Oxfam has reported that the northern town of Beit Hanoun in Gaza Strip was experiencing serious sewage flooding after generators that run the local pumping station ran out of diesel:

International aid agency Oxfam today called on the high level EU delegation, expected to arrive in the Middle East Sunday, to put maximum pressure on all parties for an immediate ceasefire and allow unimpeded humanitarian access to the besieged population of Gaza. The agency refuted the Israeli foreign minister’s view, expressed in Paris yesterday and widely reported in the media, that there is not a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza strip. 

Oxfam said the humanitarian crisis gets worse by the day. Hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties. Raw sewage pours into the streets in Beit Hanoun, a town of over 20,000 inhabitants. The water authority has only a couple of days’ stock of fuel and chlorine. Water supplies are being restricted in many areas to a few hours a week. Food and fuel are also becoming ever more scarce and there are queues of up to 300 metres long at some bakeries.