2023-11-05 02:29:30
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) complains regarding an acute shortage of water and food for the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. «Maya! “Maya” (German for “water”)” is now the cry that can be heard on the streets in the sealed-off coastal area, said the UNRWA head for Gaza, Thomas White, who was connected via video conference, in a briefing for diplomats from the 193rd on Friday UN member states. In the past few weeks he has traveled throughout the Gaza Strip. There were scenes of death and destruction, explained White.
No place in the Gaza Strip is safe
No place in the Gaza Strip is safe. People are afraid for their lives, their future and that they will not be able to feed their families, he reported.
UNRWA supports around 90 bakeries in the Gaza Strip that try to provide bread to around 1.7 million people. On average, one person in the coastal area lives on two pieces of flatbread made from flour stored locally by the United Nations, White said. But now people were not just looking for bread, but for water.
Lynn Hastings, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territories, said only one in three water pipes from Israel is currently functioning. “Many rely on brackish or saline groundwater, if at all.” Despite the airstrikes, people were lining up outside bakeries to get bread, but a number of them had already closed due to a lack of fuel, Hastings added. (DPA)
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