Clean water becomes increasingly rare in Gaza, amid the total blockade of Israel

The municipal authorities in the region said that hundreds of thousands of residents of Gaza City lost their only source of clean water last week after the Israeli army’s renewed attack in the Israeli army was cut off.

Many people now have to walk, sometimes for miles, to fill small water after the Israeli army bombed and the ground attack in the East Shehaya neighborhood in Gaza City on the pipeline run by the state -owned Micurut.

“Since the morning, I have been waiting for water,” said 42 -year -old Fatin Nassar. “There are no stations and no trucks are coming. There is no water. The crossings are closed. God is ready, the war will end safely and safely.”

The Israeli army did not immediately respond to the request for suspension.

Israel ordered the residents of Shijaya to evacuate last week, which launched an attack that witnessed many areas that were bombed. The army previously said it was working against “terrorist infrastructure” and killing a great leader.

The municipal authorities say that the Micureut pipeline has provided 70 percent of Gaza City water since most of its wells were destroyed during the war.

“The situation is very difficult and things are getting more complicated, especially when it comes to people’s daily lives and their daily water needs, whether for cleaning, disinfection and even cooking and drinking,” said Mouhanna, a municipal spokesman.

“We are now living in a real thirsty crisis in Gaza City, and we may face a difficult fact in the coming days if the situation remains the same.”

The water crisis is deteriorating

Most of the 2.3 million people in Gaza have become an internal guided by the war, as many daily trips are on foot to fill the plastic containers with water from the few wells that are still working in remote areas – and even this does not guarantee clean supplies.

Water for drinking, cooking and washing has become increasingly well -being for the inhabitants of Gaza after the beginning of the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, whose fighters carried out the bloodiest attack over decades on Israel in October 2023, killing 1,200 people in southern Israel, and 250 players took over, according to Ezrillis.

Since then, more than 50,800 Palestinians have been killed in the military campaign of Israel, according to the Palestinian authorities.

Many population via pocket waiting menu for hours to fill one water, which is usually not sufficient for their daily needs.

“I walk long distances,” said Adele Al -Hourani, 64.

Most Gaza wells are not valid for work

The only natural source of water in Gaza is the coastal groundwater basin, which runs along the eastern Mediterranean coast of the northern Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, via Gaza and Israel.

But salty tap water is very exhausted, as up to 97 percent was considered inappropriate for human consumption due to salinity and excessive extraction and pollution.

The Palestinian Water Authority stated that most of its wells have become unable to work during the war.

On March 22, a joint statement issued by the Palestinian Statistics and Water Authority Office said that more than 85 percent of the water and sanitation facilities in Gaza were out of service or partial.

Palestinian and United Nations officials said that most of the desalination factories in Gaza were damaged or stopped their operations due to power and fuel discounts in Israel.

“Because of the widespread damage incurred by the water and sanitation sector, the water supply rates decreased between three to five liters per person per day,” the statement said.

She added that this was much lower than the minimum of at least 15 liters for one person to survive in emergency situations, according to the World Health Organization indicators.

Food, medicine is also running out

More than six weeks ago, since Israel has cut off all supplies to nearly 2.3 million people Gaza StripThe food was stored during the ceasefire at the beginning of the year.

Emergency distributions in emergency situations, bakeries are closed, and markets are empty.

Hani Abu Qasim, a food distribution official in Khan Yunis, says he works with small amounts of food that will soon be transferred.

“People come to us as a last resort,” said the independent video photographer of CBC Mohamed El Seif on Friday.

Ahmed Abu Daka, one of the residents who was waiting for a queue at the Food Bank, says that the Palestinians in the region do not know whether they would wake up the next day and will be able to get their hands on food.

“Civilians are waiting in the queue for hours, waiting for food that they sometimes cannot get. It is great suffering,” he said.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (World Health Organization) said on Friday that medicine shares are very low, making it difficult to keep hospitals to work partially.

“We are very low in our three warehouses, on antibiotics, fourth fluids and blood bags,” official Rick Biberkorn told reporters in Geneva via the video link from Jerusalem.