JERUSALEM (CNN) — Several dozen pro-Fatah Palestinians with little food and no toilets remained stranded Wednesday inside the Erez Crossing walkway connecting Hamas-led Gaza to Israel.

“The situation is dreadful,” Saeb Erakat said. “The situation is very, very dire.”

The refugees are inside the 300-yard long covered walkway bordered by two 10-yard high concrete walls, which is now filled with waste and feces. They are mostly young men, but a few women are also there with several children. They represent what is left of several hundred people who rushed to the border crossing last week when fighting between Hamas and Fatah militants raged for control of Gaza.

Some of them tell stories of narrow escapes from Hamas militants and many say they fear for their lives if forced return to Gaza.

The Israeli government allowed several dozen senior Fatah leaders and their families to pass through on their way to the Fatah-controlled West Bank. People with foreign citizenship were also allowed to pass, according to Israeli daily Haaretz.

On Monday, grenade attacks inside the tunnel wounded at least 17 people. Israel has already allowed wounded Five of the critically wounded were rushed to Israeli hospitals, but the others remained in Gaza, Erakat said.

Erakat said the Palestinian Authority was “looking at various options” for resolving the Erez Crossing crisis.

Erakat urged all other Palestinians in Gaza to “please stay home.”

More at CNN