Egypt’s Strife Reaching Gaza Hospitals With Lack of Fuel

The violence flaring in Egypt following the ouster of President Mohamed Mursi by the military may have unintended consequences for Walid al-Khawaja’s kidneys.

For the last two years, al-Khawaja has needed to come to the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza for kidney failure treatment three times a week. Now he frets that the hospital could run out of the electricity needed to power his dialysis machine because the Egyptian military has destroyed dozens of tunnels that serve to smuggle supplies of fuel and other consumer goods into Gaza.