The bad news continues to hit Gaza City. In the midst of the Israeli Army’s bombings against the Palestinian enclave and the destruction of civil infrastructure, the city authorities have warned that the heavy rain that began early this Sunday and are expected to continue in the next few hours could cause the city to overflow because the attacks carried out by the Israeli Army have destroyed a large part of the sewage system.
“Since this morning it has been raining heavily in Gaza City, raising fears that an overflow will threaten residents due to extensive damage to sewage and stormwater networks,” a spokesman said. Asem Alnabi. In this sense, he has warned that the Israeli Army has destroyed “more than 175,000 meters of pipes of sewers, 15,000 meters of stormwater drainage systems and 105,000 meters of water supply networks“.
After more than a year of war in the Gaza Strip, Alnabi has focused on the fact that “there is an urgent need to provide pipes and materials to repair the drainage system of the Sheikh Radwan basin.” In addition, he added that delays in supply “could cause a disaster”, endangering the lives of residents and those displaced by the conflict. The authorities of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have put the death toll at almost 44,200 due to the offensive launched by Israel against the enclave after the attacks of October 7, 2023.
