Four-fifths of water supply in Gaza contaminated, says Red Crescent

Director of health programs at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Bashar Murad, on Tuesday said that 80% of the water in the Gaza Strip is completely contaminated, Al Jazeera reported. 

Murad said that this has "led to an increase in cases of hepatitis C, with more than 70,000 cases recorded" since the start of the genocide in 2023.

On 3 November, the United Nations said more than 81 percent of all buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed by Israel’s relentless bombardment.

Citing satellite data, the UN secretary general’s deputy spokesperson confirmed that 81 percent of the enclave’s structures have suffered destruction, underscoring the catastrophic scale of Israel’s assault on the enclave, which has been recognised as a genocide by the UN.

Entire neighbourhoods across Gaza have been reduced to rubble, leaving families displaced and essential infrastructure obliterated.