The UN refugee agency for Palestinians says its operations in Gaza are about to grind to a halt amid an Israeli-imposed fuel shortage.

A main hospital in Gaza shuts down key services as it is running out of badly-needed fuel supplies.

"We lose roughly two hours every two days to fill up, just to be able to work." Parisians continue to endure fuel shortages, with long queues at service stations. "It's really physical and moral fatigue," says one taxi driver.

Nearly 10 percent of petrol stations in Paris are having trouble getting enough fuel supplies amid persisting strikes in four refineries, the government declares.

The Iranian embassy in Beirut says Tehran is ready to send fuel ships to Lebanon in one or two weeks.

Sri Lanka has shut its schools while handing tokens to people queuing for petrol amid a severe fuel shortage in the country.

Police in Sri Lanka have killed a protester and wounded 24 others during protests against the government over the island nation's severe fuel shortage and economic crisis.