In turn, we must add to this balance of dead and wounded the following 520 Palestinians killed in West Bank and East Jerusalem during operations by Israeli forces or attacks by settlers.
UNRWA denounces blockages on landfills
For its part, the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) denounced this Friday that the Israeli authorities are preventing the collection of waste from landfills in the Gaza Stripthat is causing “extremely terrible” sanitary conditions that are raising fears of a greater spread of disease, a problem that would further exacerbate the already extreme humanitarian situation experienced there.
“Thousands of tons of smoking garbage are piled between shelters in stifling heat. Families sift through the trash for salvageable materials; children fly kites. Everyone you talk to is absolutely exhausted,” the agency spokeswoman said. Louise Waterridge via his X account (formerly Twitter). In the same publication, Wateridge accused Israel of “repeatedly refuse“to allow the agency to “empty the main dumps in the Strip”, which causes the creation of other temporary dumps that are also not cleared due to their infrastructural peculiarity and “Israeli restrictions on the import and distribution of fuel”.
Today must be the worst it has ever been. I have no doubt that tomorrow will be the worst it has ever been.
Gazans are forced to live in bombed buildings or camp next to gigantic piles of garbage @AFP @FRANCE24
In today #Loophttps://t.co/TM9Tb2z0tH
—Louise Waterridge (@UNWateridge) June 28, 2024
The result of this blockade, as Waterridge has pointed out, is that “Gazans live among the garbage“.”The problem is getting worse. And as the temperature rises, the misery that people have to endure increases. People build shelters with plastic and the temperature inside is even higher than outside. The conditions are really unbearable,” he complained.
This wake-up call was not only supported by UNRWA, but also by World Health Organization (WHO) has repeatedly warned of the serious dangers posed by the 'combination' of disease, hunger and lack of hygiene in the Gaza Strip, causing the population to experience 'staggering numbers' of infectious disease outbreaks that further complicate medical and humanitarian care in a completely collapsed and blocked system. According to this organization, some 470,000 cases of diarrhea in the Gaza Strip since October 7.
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