A day in the life of families sheltering at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital
1 year, 1 month ago

A day in the life of families sheltering at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital

Al Jazeera  

Gaza City – More than 50,000 displaced Palestinians have taken refuge at the al-Shifa Hospital, squeezing in corridors, waiting rooms and outside in the courtyard. “We’re safe, but we’re suffering from the heat and the swarm of flies all around us,” Ghaniya said. “We use salty water to hand wash our clothes and our dishes.” On the ground, Ghaniya and her children sleep on two thin blankets. “The salty water has made us itchy,” Imm Mohammed said. We’re living off of canned cheese and fava beans.” Imm Mohammed wants to go back to her life before the war and not live “this slow death”.

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More than a month without water, food, healthcare in Gaza amid Israel war
1 year, 1 month ago

More than a month without water, food, healthcare in Gaza amid Israel war

Al Jazeera  

The United Nations says the enclave’s health, sanitation, water and food services are nearing the ‘breaking point’. Israel’s intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip, one of the world’s most densely populated areas, has caused the deaths of 10,328 Palestinians, including 4,237 children, since the war started on October 7. In 2021, the Global Institute for Water, Environment and Health and …

Gazans forced to drink dirty, salty water as the fuel needed to run water systems runs out
1 year, 2 months ago

Gazans forced to drink dirty, salty water as the fuel needed to run water systems runs out

CNN  

CNN — Mohammad Al Shanti is forced to travel nearly four miles to Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza to fill up plastic bottles with water. “We don’t wash our clothes, we save every little drop,” he told CNN, describing the water situation as “catastrophic.” Finding clean water is becoming an all-consuming – and increasingly difficult – challenge for many Gazans. …

Gaza’s next big threat: Cholera, infectious diseases amid Israeli blockade
1 year, 2 months ago

Gaza’s next big threat: Cholera, infectious diseases amid Israeli blockade

Al Jazeera  

Humanitarian organisations warn deadly water-borne diseases will spread in the besieged strip if aid is not allowed in. “Every day I fill a bottle of water for each one and I tell them: Try to manage this,” he told Al Jazeera, speaking from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. “At the beginning, they struggled, but now they are coping.” …

Gaza under Israeli siege: Bread lines, yellow water and nonstop explosions
1 year, 2 months ago

Gaza under Israeli siege: Bread lines, yellow water and nonstop explosions

Associated Press  

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — There are explosions audible in the cramped, humid room where Azmi Keshawi shelters with his family in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. The Israeli military has relentlessly attacked Gaza in retaliation for a devastating Hamas rampage in southern Israel almost two weeks ago and the Keshawi family’s sense of desperation is growing. “How the …

No medicines, water, food scarcity: All to know about Gaza after Israel war
1 year, 2 months ago

No medicines, water, food scarcity: All to know about Gaza after Israel war

Al Jazeera  

Gaza’s residents are grappling with shortages of food and water while hospitals are overwhelmed amid Israeli bombing. People have been forced to dig wells near the sea to fetch water as Gaza – home to 2.3 million people – is facing a shortage of water as well as food. Here’s what’s to know about the current struggle for medical care, …

Gaza’s limited water supply raises concerns for human health
1 year, 2 months ago

Gaza’s limited water supply raises concerns for human health

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A lack of clean water in the Gaza Strip is raising major concerns for human health. “Next to air,” water is “really the most important thing for maintenance of your health,” said Dr. Tsion Firew, an emergency physician at Columbia University who has worked on water access in humanitarian settings. Many people can’t survive more than a …

Water a ‘matter of life and death’ for Gaza after Israeli siege, says UN
1 year, 2 months ago

Water a ‘matter of life and death’ for Gaza after Israeli siege, says UN

Al Jazeera  

More than two million Palestinians have been left with limited access to clean water, something the United Nations is raising alarms about. The United Nations refugee agency for Palestinians has said water has now become a “matter of life and death” for people in the Gaza Strip after Israel cut their water supplies. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency …

Under Israeli bombs, Gaza’s Palestinians worry they may die of hunger
1 year, 2 months ago

Under Israeli bombs, Gaza’s Palestinians worry they may die of hunger

Al Jazeera  

‘Is there enough food for the day? Will we be able to reach our loved ones?’ Palestinians in Gaza wonder every day. In the mornings that we are lucky enough to wake up after another night of Israel’s bombardment, we look at one another as if to make sure we are there. It’s not like we have much of an …

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