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July 16, 2014

Red Cross: Israeli Bombings of Gaza Infrastructure Threaten New Water Crisis 
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In addition to bombing Gazan homes, Israel's attack has further
decimated a civilian infrastructure already in crisis after years of a
crippling blockade. On Tuesday, the International Committee of the Red
Cross warned the more than week-long Israeli bombings have pushed Gaza
to the brink of a new water crisis.

Nada Doumani: "Water is a problem, and it can quickly turn out into a
catastrophe. We do have hundreds of thousands of people without water in
Gaza. So water repairs have been conducted in very difficult conditions.
Water engineers have been killed, and this obviously hampered a lot the
work. Gaza has already a very difficult deteriorating infrastructure,
1.5, 1.7 million people living in a very small area, and the
infrastructure is already bad. With all the shelling and the bombings
and the fighting going on, it can only be even worse."

 

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