KHAN YUNIS, (PIC)
The Municipality of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza Strip has appealed to the international community and donor parties to intervene urgently and immediately to bring in the necessary mechanisms and equipment, as well as the required maintenance parts, to prevent the collapse of basic services in the governorate.
The Municipal Emergency Committee said in a press release on Monday that it is suffering from a shortage of service equipment due to the Israeli occupation army’s destruction of more than 14 vehicles out of 26.
The Committee explained that the destroyed vehicles included garbage collection and transportation trucks, as well as bulldozers and excavators used to open roads and remove the debris in all areas of the city due to devastating Israeli bombardment, and to enhance the efforts to repair the water, sewage, health, and environmental systems.
The Committee pointed to the immense service burden the city is experiencing, as it has received about 1.2 million displaced persons since the start of the war on Gaza.
It underlined that the large numbers of displaced persons and the scarcity of resources, as well as the severe shortage of diesel fuel needed to operate water and sewage pumps, have placed enormous pressure on the already-collapsed services, which portends an impending environmental disaster with catastrophic consequences.
Gaza Strip is facing a dire environmental reality, with waste scattered on the streets and in the displacement camps, and sewage overflowing in the streets due to the malfunction of drainage and treatment facilities, amid grave concerns about the outbreak of epidemics that cannot be contained.
The Israeli occupation army has been waging a war of extermination on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, resulting in more than 39,000 martyrs, over 90,000 injured, mostly women and children, the displacement of about 1.9 million people, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction of the health and educational infrastructure and famine that has claimed the lives of dozens of children.
