GAZA, (Palestine Foundation Information Center ) The Gaza municipality has warned of a severe health and environmental crisis caused by massive accumulations of waste in the streets and temporary dumps, as diseases and rats spread, particularly in overcrowded displacement areas, amid Israel’s ongoing genocide and restricted movement for municipal teams.
The municipality explained that, despite the destruction of its equipment and fuel shortages, it continues to make sustained efforts to collect waste and provide minimal services in coordination with local and international agencies to prevent a total collapse.
It called on international organizations to intervene urgently, emphasizing that ending the genocide is essential to ensuring access to basic services and protecting civilian lives.
Since the start of the genocide, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have prevented municipal teams from accessing the main landfill east of the city, resulting in waste piling up in the city and in the Feras and Yarmouk dumps in large quantities, exacerbating the health and humanitarian disaster.
The destruction of most municipal machinery by the IOF, coupled with the limited availability of fuel, has led to an almost complete halt in waste collection operations and a reduction of basic services provided to residents.
