Скачать или смотреть Conditions worsen as people in Gaza face heatwave amid struggle to secure water for drinking and san

(14 Aug 2025)
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Muwasi (Khan Younis), Gaza Strip - 13 August 2025
1. Various of girl filling containers with water
2. Girl drinking water from a gallon bottle
3. Woman drinking water from tap
4. Children wheeling containers filled with water on carts
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hosni Shaheen, displaced from Khan Younis:
“The weather is very hot. If a person used to drink one litre of water, they now need seven to eight litres of water, and water is unavailable. This is our plight as a displaced people."
6. Various of people filling their containers with water
7. Person drinking water from tap
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hosni Shaheen, displaced from of Khan Younis:
“If you drink it, it causes stomach cramps, for adults and children, without exception. At the same time, you don't feel safe when your children drink it."
9. Various of man loading containers of water onto cart
10. Various of cart loaded with water containers leaving desalination plant
11. Various of displaced people gathering near a water truck, filling their containers with water
12. Various of displaced woman filling barrel with water
13. Various of displaced people filling their containers with water
14. Various of displaced woman and children carrying containers to tents
15. Various of woman filling jerrycan with water
16. Various of displaced woman and her children drinking water inside tent
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rana Odeh, displaced from eastern Khan Younis:
“Now we live in difficult weather. Summer, very hot temperatures, and our water consumption is not like in winter or other seasons. There is difficulty obtaining water and, in addition, it is undrinkable. We are forced to give it to our children because we have no alternative. It causes diseases for us and our children. It is contaminated water. Sometimes we get water, sometimes not. We suffer greatly from its shortage."
18. Various of people filling bags with water
19. Various of child carrying water bags and putting them in the freezer
20. Various of children displaying cold water bags for sale
21. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud al-Dibs, displaced from Gaza City:
“We drink it and suffer from stomach cramps. We don't know the source of the water, but this is what we find. We live in tents and now it is August, a very hot month. Outside the tents it is hot and inside the tents it is hot, so we are forced to drink this water wherever we go.”
22. Various of al-Dibs washing his face with water
23. Various of man giving his son water
24. Various of hundreds of displaced people's tents spread along the beach
STORYLINE:
While dealing with a heatwave, people in Gaza struggle to secure enough water for drinking and sanitation and experts warn that far less than the minimum needed to sustain life is reaching the territory.

Water runs through nearly every part of Gaza’s humanitarian crisis.

Contaminated supplies spread disease, shortages leave people dehydrated, and fuel restrictions cut power to desalination and sewage treatment plants.

As the territory faces what experts warn is a “worst-case scenario of famine,” people are also scrambling to access water for drinking and washing.

Sweat-soaked and dust-covered, they cross rubble to fill reused bottles, buckets, or even small plastic bags, hauling them back to Muwasi, the sprawling tent camp where thousands are sheltering.

The United Nations estimates that people in Gaza survive on less than three liters a day — a fraction of the minimum humanitarian agencies say is needed.


Even when water is available, it is often murky and unsafe.











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