According to the organization, the causes of the problem are: the lack of drinking water, which forces us to look for contaminated sources, and the closure of all desalination plants as a result of the continuous Israeli aggression, which has caused more than 25 thousand deaths since October 7th.

The destruction of the sewage system and the resulting floods, caused by the Israeli Army, also unleashed a health and environmental disaster, the authority stressed in a statement, noting that some areas suffer from a lack of containers or the total interruption of the waste collection services, a situation that increases the problem.

On several occasions, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned about the drastic raise in disease cases in Gaza due to the terrible living conditions caused by the bombings and the siege by Israel.

WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus denounced recently on X that “overcrowding and the lack of food, water, sanitation and basic hygiene, waste management and access to medicines are causing a high number of diseases.”

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