GAZA, (PIC)
The Municipality of Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza has reported the loss of 12 water sources due to the Israeli occupation’s decisions to forcibly displace the eastern part of the city in the Gaza Strip.
Ismail Sarsour, the head of the Emergency Committee in the municipality, stated that according to the new map of forced displacement announced by the Israeli occupation army, the municipality will lose 10 wells and two tanks located in the eastern part of the city.
Sarsour explained in statements to the Shehab Agency on Saturday that 300,000 residents and displaced people in Deir Al-Balah will be affected and suffer more from the already scarce water services.
Sarsour added that the Al-Birka tank is located on the borders of the areas demanded for forced evacuation, but it will lose its supply sources from the coastal wells and therefore will go out of service.
He pointed out that the area’s ten wells produce approximately 60% of the water quantities, amounting to 9,000 cubic meters per day, which are pumped to the residents and displaced people in Deir Al-Balah.
The Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip and the eastern regions of Deir Al-Balah city are witnessing a new wave of displacement, after the occupation army issued new orders for forced displacement that threaten the lives of thousands of displaced Palestinians living in these areas.
Under the title “Serious Warning,” the occupation army issued a statement and its planes dropped leaflets from the sky, calling on the residents and displaced people in the central and southern Gaza areas to immediately evacuate the eastern neighborhoods of Deir Al-Balah, the northwestern regions of Khan Yunis city, including Al-Qarara, Al-Mawasi, Al-Jala’a, Hamad City, and Al-Nasr.
With this new warning, the Israeli occupation is reducing what it claims to be a safe humanitarian area, which includes hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been displaced from all parts of the devastated Gaza Strip.
