The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned that more than two million citizens in the Gaza Strip face the risk of running out of water, which has become life-threatening.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said: Water has become a matter of life and death. It is essential that fuel is delivered to Gaza to provide water for two million people.
The UN agency indicated in a press statement that humanitarian supplies have not been allowed to enter Gaza for a week. She said that the Strip is running out of clean water after the water station and public water networks stopped working.
According to UNRWA, in just the past 12 hours, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced. The wave of displacement continues as people move to the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The number of displaced people reached nearly one million people within a week.
UNRWA called on the Israeli occupation authorities to protect all civilians sheltering in its facilities throughout the Gaza Strip, including those in the northern Strip and Gaza City.
The agency explained that despite the order to evacuate more than a million people from northern Gaza and Gaza City to the southern Strip, many will not be able to leave the area. They have no choice and must be protected at all times.
UNRWA stated that civilians, hospitals, schools, clinics, and United Nations facilities cannot be targeted, indicating that its shelters in Gaza and the northern Gaza Strip are no longer safe, which is considered unprecedented.
