Raw sewage, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, garbage piled high in the streets. As the heat of summer gathers, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are contending with a crisis in sanitation - as well as hunger and the frequent need to move from one place to another in the search for safety from air strikes and fighting.
Raw sewage, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, garbage piled high in the streets. As the heat of summer gathers, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are contending with a crisis in sanitation. Ismail Zayda, who lives in Gaza City in the north, told CNN that water supplies had been cut off for nine months. “The municipalities are not working, and waste in large piles is on our doorsteps and on the roads,” he said.
. A safe water supply is essential not just for drinking and cooking, but to prevent the spread of disease. reported this week that more than two-thirds of water and sanitation facilities and infrastructure in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged due to the conflict. It added many other facilities are out of service due to challenges including “insecurity, access impediments, and lack of power and fuel to operate generators.”
said that people’s coping mechanisms are “heavily stretched,” with the most vulnerable collecting water from unreliable sources in inadequate containers, while lacking basic hygiene items like soap. The average high temperature in Gaza in the coming week is expected to be in the low 30 degrees celsius, with warmer weather likely to worsen what is already a crisis in sanitation.
, the delivery of some fuel supplies has helped reduce the level of accumulated wastewater in the Sheikh Radwan area in Gaza City, but “the lack of a steady flow of fuel creates a continued risk of sewage overflow into neighbouring areas.” Assem Al-Nabih, media officer for the Gaza City Municipality, told CNN there is now “a leakage of large quantities of sewage in various parts of the city and also into the sea.
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