Gaza crisis spiralling out of control | Oxfam International
The crisis in Gaza is fast spiralling out of control with
water supplies critically low and a public health crisis imminent, Oxfam
warned today. The collapse of the latest brief ceasefire announcement
means many more lives will be at risk.
Conditions are increasingly desperate in overcrowded schools and buildings where up to 450,000 people are sheltering. Many people are getting as little as three liters of safe water a day,
far below international emergency standards. Massive destruction of
water and sewage systems and electricity supplies has reduced water
supply to Gaza's entire population of 1.8 million people. Spills of raw
sewage threaten to contaminate water sources and the threat of disease
is rising. There are already reports of 30 cases of meningitis, as well
as skin diseases among children and cases of gastroenteritis.
