GAZA, (PIC)
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned of catastrophic environmental and health risks as a result of more than 330,000 tons of accumulated waste in populated areas throughout the Gaza Strip.
UNRWA said in a post on X on Thursday, “as of 9 June, over 330,000 tons of waste have accumulated in or near populated areas across Gaza, posing catastrophic environmental and health risks. Children rummage through trash daily.”
“Unimpeded humanitarian access and ceasefire now are crucial to restore humane living conditions,” the UN agency stressed.
Meanwhile, the Gaza municipality crews have recently been working to implement projects aimed at collecting and moving waste from a number of inhabited neighborhoods and streets in cooperation with multiple institutions and bodies amid huge obstacles because of the lack of fuel needed to collect waste as well as the destruction that resulted from the Israeli ongoing war and banning municipal teams from reaching the main landfill east of the city.
