“There is no bottled water. The children walk a long distance – when they get water it reaches us contaminated,”

The United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs says 67% of Gaza’s water and sanitation system, poor at the best of times, has now been destroyed.

We in Khan Younis have lost between 170 and 200km of pipes, which have been completely destroyed, along with wells and water tanks.

A Palestinian doctor elaborates on the health implications arising from destroyed civilian infrastructure.

“The first problem is intestinal infections with vomiting and diarrhoea which causes dehydration,” he says.
“The second problem is hepatitis C or A, which are no less dangerous than intestinal infections, if not more so.

“It is no secret that the biggest cause of intestinal infections currently occurring in the Gaza Strip is the contamination of the water supplied to these children,” says Dr Ahmed al-Fari, head of the children’s departments at Nasser Hospital.

”But the International Criminal Court prosecutor has accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war and has requested arrest warrants for the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as the Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.”

Source

BBC report

Gaza’s broken water system crippling children with sickness