Israel has cut off water and power to 2.3 million people living in the Gaza Strip.
In the besieged Gaza Strip, 2.3 million people do not have access to clean running water because of Israel’s decision to cut off water and electricity to the enclave while pounding it with air strikes.When water does trickle from pipes, it lasts no more than 30 minutes each day and is so contaminated with sewage and sea water that it is undrinkable, residents say.
Israel’s retaliatory strikes have crushed hundreds of buildings in Gaza and killed more than 2,200 Palestinians. In normal times, the coastal enclave – which has struggled under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007 – relies on Israel for one-third of all available drinking water, the territory’s water authority says.
That has left the entire territory without running water. People buy dwindling jugs from municipal sanitation stations, scour for bottles in supermarkets or drink whatever liquid may dribble out of their pipes. She took her first shower in a week on Saturday, using a cup of polluted tap water and splashing it over her husband and two children before rubbing the remaining moisture on her skin.
Palestinian civil defence crews try to extinguish a fire in a house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip
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