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'Really unbearable': UNRWA Deplores Situation in Gaza

20:49 - June 28, 2024
News ID: 3488912
IQNA – UNRWA Senior Communications Officer Louise Wateridge says the living conditions in Gaza are “extremely dire” as Palestinians are forced to live in bombed-out buildings or camp near piles of waste.

 

“It’s really unbearable,” Wateridge told reporters in Geneva via videolink from central Gaza.

“Today, it has to be the worst it’s ever been. I don’t doubt that tomorrow again will be the worst it’s ever been,” she said.

On returning to Khan Younis, Wateridge said, “The buildings are skeletons, if at all. Everything is rubble”.

“And yet people are living there again.

“There’s no water there, there’s no sanitation, there’s no food. And now, people are living back in these buildings that are empty shells,” with sheets covering the gaps left by blown-out walls.

With no toilets, “people are relieving themselves anywhere they can.”

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas launched the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

Tel Aviv has also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a humanitarian crisis.

 

Source: Al Jazeera

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