MADRID 24 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The municipal authorities of Gaza City have warned this Sunday that intense rains could cause overflow in Gaza City amid the Israeli Army’s bombings against the Palestinian enclave and the destruction of civilian infrastructure.
“Since this morning it has been raining heavily in Gaza City, raising fears that an overflow threatens residents due to extensive damage to sewage and stormwater networks,” said a spokesman, Asem Alnabi.
In this sense, he has warned that the Israeli Army has destroyed “more than 175,000 meters of sewage pipes, 15,000 meters of stormwater drainage systems and 105,000 meters of water supply networks.”
“There is an urgent need to provide pipes and materials to repair the drainage system of the Sheikh Radwan basin,” he said, adding that delays in supply “could lead to 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 on October 7, 2023.