Situation in West Bank ‘worsening daily’, says UNRWA
The UN’s Palestinian refugee agency says on X that the “Nur Shams and Tulkarm camps are suffering from water shortages and electricity outages”.
The agency added that constant raids by Israeli security forces “continue causing destruction & threatening the lives of people in the area”.
Today alone, we’ve been reporting on raids on the occupied West Bank cities of Nablus and Ramallah, in which Palestinians were injured and agricultural land was bulldozed by Israeli forces.
“This ‘silent war’ has to end”, said UNRWA.
‘Despair’ in Gaza after 300 days of war, Haniyeh assassination
After 300 days of continued killing and destruction across the Gaza Strip … the general mood here is filled with despair and depression.
People were hoping that at some point negotiations were going to make some sort of progress to end this madness – the mass killing of innocent people across the Gaza Strip.
The assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has not affected Israel’s war conduct.
What we’re seeing here is more killing and destruction.
Yesterday evening, there was an attack on a school turned shelter for displaced people. It was struck by at least three missiles. The third one was fired as people tried to get into the school to rescue those hit by the first two missiles.
The facility has been completely destroyed.
Elsewhere, the Israeli military continued with its strikes as well. There doesn’t seem to be an end to this genocide.
The mood across the Gaza Strip is one of despair.
85% of Gaza’s schools hit, damaged during war
Since the Gaza war broke out, Israeli attacks have “directly hit or damaged” close to 85 percent of Gaza’s schools, says the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), citing satellite assessments by the Global Education Cluster.
“The war is destroying the present and the future of Palestinian children”, said the UN agency in a post on X.
Nearly 85% of school buildings in the #GazaStrip have been directly hit or damaged, according to satellite assessments by @GlobalEdCluster
Some of these schools will need full reconstruction. The war is destroying the present and the future of Palestinian children. #CeasefireNow pic.twitter.com/1ozXNDinFj
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) August 2, 2024
UNRWA chief sounds alarm about Hepatitis A in Gaza
Since the Gaza war broke out, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has recorded nearly 40,000 cases of Hepatitis A in its shelters, up from just 85 in the same span of time before the war.
The disease is spreading rapidly due to Gaza’s collapsing waste management and sewage systems and lack of clean water and hygiene, warned UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.
People in #Gaza are facing yet another peril: Hepatitis A is spreading including among children.
Since the war began, @UNRWA is reporting nearly 40,000 cases in our shelters and clinics against only 85 in the same period before the war.
This is a frightening increase.
The… pic.twitter.com/Dg6bbXuwe0
— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) August 2, 2024
