As we reported earlier, Palestinian municipal authorities have declared Jabalia and Beit Hanoon in the northern Gaza Strip as “disaster areas”.
Here’s what Naji Sarhan, the head of the emergency committee for north Gaza, said about the disaster declaration on Sunday.
“The Jabalia refugee camp and Beit Hanoon town are now disaster areas,” Sarhan said.
“The people of northern Gaza live in difficult humanitarian conditions with most residents lacking food, medicine and fuel,” Sarhan added.
Sarhan pleaded for the UN and other international organisations to “intervene immediately to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip”.
According to the emergency committee, the infrastructure destroyed by Israeli forces in the north of Gaza includes:
- 50,000 housing units
- 35 water wells
- Several schools and other facilities run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA)
- Drainage networks
- Roads
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