The United Nations agency specialized in Palestinian refugees warned this Saturday that there are more than two million people in the Gaza Strip who are running out of drinking water due to Israel's blockage of humanitarian aid entry to the enclave. "Across the Gaza Strip, more than 2 million people are at risk of being left without water," said the commissioner general of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini. "It has become a matter of life and death. It is a necessity; fuel has to be delivered now to Gaza so that water is available for 2 million people," the manager added. For a week now, Israel has not allowed the entry of humanitarian supplies into Gaza, in what is its response to the attack carried out by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas against soldiers and civilians in Israeli territory last Saturday. "Clean water is running out in the Gaza Strip, after its water plant and public water networks stopped working. The population is forced to use dirty water from wells, increasing the risk of transmitted diseases for water," the UN said in the statement.