Palestinians returning to ‘toxic desolation’ in the northern gaza | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
Horition of floods through the streets of the City of Gaza creates new health risks, residents say.
Moving Palestinians returning to northern Gaza revealed that cities that used to be reduced to toxic desolation, according to residents and agencies for help.
Shocked by the level of destruction, the inhabitants of the City of Gaza call for action because of the crisis of the sanitary building in the largest city of Enklave, Al Jazeera reported on Monday.
The scene of destruction was introduced to those who hope to renew their lives in the north reach of the enclave, Focus of the most concentrated Israeli military actions During the war. The dangers representing damaged buildings are aligned with missing public services and streets filled with piles of garbage.
Last month, a fire interruption contract encouraged a rush of displaced people to return to the north. However, the city of Gaza remains without running water or reliable power.
Cities lack basic services such as water and health care, said TESS Ingram from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
“They were shocked by what they returned to,” she said from the city of Gaza.
“They hoped that their homes, neighbors, their communities may have been spared. And when they return here and realize that this is not the case, they hoped that they were held for 15 months of collision.”
Families returning north #Gauze They are shocked by the proportion of destruction.
The UNICEF TESS Ingram divides the reality on the ground and the huge challenges that people face. pic.twitter.com/iryrn9asnm
– UNICEF MENA – يونيسف الشرق الxto Žjevط وشمال إفريقيا (@unicefmen) 9 February 2025
Thunder of the toxic trash of the middle area of the city, including the Business Center, increasing the spread of the disease.
“The waste accumulation near hospitals creates serious health risks, mainly the outbreak of illness and epidemic,” said Amin Al-Alia, a nurse at Ahli Hospital.
“It’s extremely dangerous,” said resident Ahmed Nasser Al Jazeera. “Hopefully it was removed in the earliest possible time.”
“This area has become terrifying as shut -off forests,” added the owner of the Majid Bassam store. “A lot of insects, a stray dog, called it. It’s a huge area of desolation.”
Heavy rain and powerful winds in the gazi city are still in the north worsening of suffering.
With a lack of shelter, some resorted to the beginning of the fire in the demolished heat buildings, Hani Mahmoud Al Jazeera from Gaza reported.
“There have been three documented cases of people dying under similar buildings that have been demolished in recent days,” Mahmoud said.
Hanan Balkhy of the World Health Organization (WHO) described the suffering of people in the war enclave as a “out of understanding” and invited the accelerated assistance operations.
WHO is “ready to increase our answer”, but urgently requires “systematic and lasting approach to the population in Gaza, and we need the end of the restriction on the intake of essential stocks,” she said.
More than half a million Palestinians returned to the northern gauze from the Israel’s army Partially reopening the Netzarim corridorwhich divides the gauze from the north to the south, for the journey at the end of January.
Sunday Hamas said the Israeli forces had completely withdrawn From the corridor as part of a permanent interruption agreement, allowing Palestinians to cross him without fear of military violence for the first time in more than a year.
