According to the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (Ochha), The Israeli authorities issued travel orders overnight for two districts in Khan Younis, where up to 80,000 people lived.
The Al Satar reservoir – a critical center for the distribution of the water pipes of Israel – has become inaccessible accordingly.
Serious warnings
“Any damage to the reservoir could lead to a collapse of the main distribution of the city of the water system, with serious humanitarian consequences,” said UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, to journalists during a daily briefing in New York.
Al Satar’s disturbance comes while Gaza’s infrastructure looms under incessant displacement, tense services and critical fuel and supplies shortages.
About 85% of the Gaza territory is currently under travel orders or located in military areas – seriously hampering people access to essential aid and the capacity of humanitarian workers to reach those who need it, OCHA reported.
Continuous displacement
Since the collapse of a temporary ceasefire in March, nearly 714,000 Palestinians have been moved again, including 29,000 hours between 24 hours between Sunday and Monday. Existing shelters are exceeded and aid partners declare to deteriorate the conditions of health motivated by water insufficiency, sanitation and hygiene services.
Health teams report that acute aqueous diarrhea rates reached 39% in patients receiving health consultations. The governors Khan Younis and Gaza are the hardest, with densely overcrowded shelters and little access to drinking water exacerbating the spread of the disease.
Adding to the crisis, no shelter equipment has entered Gaza in more than four months, despite the hundreds of thousands of newly moved people. The UN partners indicated that in 97% of the sites interviewed, the displaced families slept in the open air, exposed to heat, diseases and trauma.
Fuel shortages
Meanwhile, fuel shortages endanger the humanitarian response. A diesel shipment intended for Northern Gaza was refused Wednesday by the Israeli authorities, just a day after a successful delivery but limited to the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
If the fuel crisis is not urgently discussed, Mr. Dujarric warned that rescue efforts could stop.
“If the fuel crisis is not treated soon, humanitarian workers could be left without the systems and tools necessary to operate safely, manage logistics and distribute humanitarian assistance,” he said.
“This would obviously endanger humanitarian workers and increase an already disastrous humanitarian crisis.”
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