A medical aid group says premature babies in the Gaza Strip will die in less than two days unless fuel to run incubators reaches hospitals there.

Melanie Ward, the chief executive of London-based group Medical Aid for Palestinians talked about the urgent situation in an interview with NHK on Tuesday.

She said her group is particularly concerned about 130 premature babies in incubators in neonatal wards across six different hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

Ward said, "We understand from the United Nations that there is less than 48 hours of fuel left for these hospitals." She added that unless fuel reaches there within 48 hours, generators will fail and the incubators will go off.

She also said that people are running out of drinking water because they cannot pump water due to fuel shortages and there are only limited amounts of bottled water.

She said they are resorting to doing things like drinking seawater, and her staff in Gaza are sometimes drinking water contaminated with agricultural chemicals to stay alive. She added that they know it's dangerous, but there is no other source of water.

The aid group said in its report on Tuesday that children in Gaza have started to write their names on their hands. That's because they are terrified that if they are killed in the bombing, their bodies will not be identified or buried with their loved ones. The group is calling for an immediate ceasefire to stop the loss of young lives.