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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reported Saturday that hundreds of thousands of people in the Gaza Strip are deprived of basic necessities such as adequate housing, food, medicine and clean water.
“Hundreds of thousands of people in the Gaza Strip are deprived of adequate housing, food, medicine and clean water,” the agency told X.
He also noted that the number of border crossings into the exclave “remains very limited.”
“Waste and sewage disposal capacities are severely limited. Garbage continues to pile up,” UNRWA said.
Later, in a separate statement, UN aid worker Louise Waterridge said people in Gaza “need everything”, adding that “these are very desperate times”. […] The only answer is to provide more help.”
Israel has faced international condemnation for continuing its brutal attacks on Gaza since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack, ignoring UN Security Council resolutions calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Since then, more than 37,800 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and more than 86,800 have been injured, according to local health officials.
More than eight months into Israel's war, supplies of food, clean water and medicine are severely limited and large swaths of Gaza lie in ruins.
Israel has been charged with genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt operations in Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians had fled to escape the war before the May 6 invasion.
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