“Heavily polluted water resources in the strip also have a serious impact on public health, with children, in particular, facing the risk of water-borne disease.
The crisis has worsened during the past decades years because of the punishing Israeli blockade, the reduction of humanitarian funding, and the series of Israeli military attacks.”
Gaza’s undrinkable water ‘slowly poisoning’ Palestinians
Caption for photo below: Palestinian children fill up containers with water in Gaza City in May [File: Mahmud Hams/AFP]
