Gaza – Serious Challenges for Electricity, Safe Water, Health, Food, Poverty – Women & Girls

GAZA – POWER SHORTAGES DEEPEN THE  HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN GAZA – UN EXPERTS

“Families are struggling to safely store and prepare food without refrigeration – a recipe for disaster when combined with the weakened health services.  Cooking, heating and lighting, and other fundamentals of the right to housing are jeopardized. People with disabilities, older people and women are being hit especially hard,” they said.

Direct Link to Full 33-Page 2017 UN Report on Gaza:

https://unsco.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/gaza_10_years_later_-_11_july_2017.pdf

Life for the average Palestinian in Gaza is getting more and more wretched. This year electricity is the most visible deterioration in the living conditions in Gaza but it comes on top of a host of other chronic and acute problems that have become part of ‘normal’ life. An 11 year-old child has not experienced more than 12 hours of electricity in a single day in his/her lifetime. No one remembers a time in recent memory when drinkable water reliably appeared out of the tap. Memories of ease of movement in and out of the Strip are also increasingly distant.