UNRWA: More than two million Palestinians in Gaza face the risk of death due to lack of water

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned that more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip face the risk of running out of water, which has become life-threatening.

The agency said in a statement today, reported by Wafa Agency: “The Strip is running out of clean water after the water station and public water networks stopped working.”

The agency noted that the occupation has not allowed humanitarian supplies to enter the Gaza Strip for a week.

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said: “Water has become a matter of life and death, and it is necessary that fuel be delivered to Gaza to provide water for two million people.”

UNRWA explained that in the past 12 hours alone, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced, and the number of displaced people within a week reached about one million people.

The agency stressed the need not to target civilians, hospitals, schools, clinics, and United Nations facilities, indicating that its shelters in the center and north of the Strip are no longer safe, which is unprecedented.

On the eleventh of this month, the only power station in the Gaza Strip stopped working after the fuel needed for it to  operate ran out and the occupation prevented the entry of fuel into it.

Yesterday, all drinking water stations in the Gaza Strip went out of service as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Strip.

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