{"id":9913,"date":"2023-10-11T01:47:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T01:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/we-have-no-water-gaza-faces-deeper-humanitarian-crisis-as-israel-tightens-its-hold\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T01:47:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T01:47:35","slug":"we-have-no-water-gaza-faces-deeper-humanitarian-crisis-as-israel-tightens-its-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/we-have-no-water-gaza-faces-deeper-humanitarian-crisis-as-israel-tightens-its-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We have no water\u2019: Gaza faces deeper humanitarian crisis as Israel tightens its hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A humanitarian crisis is swiftly unfolding in Gaza, as trapped residents, many cut off from food and electricity, face a fourth day of Israeli airstrikes in response to Hamas\u2019 deadly attack on Israel, during which it has killed at least 1,000 people and taken up to 150 hostages.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Nadine Abdul Latif, 13, of Gaza City\u2019s Al Rimal neighborhood, said she and her family were told by neighbors and relatives to leave on Monday after Israel said it would target the area. But they decided to stay as \u201cwe have no safe place to go to,\u201d she said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Her father Nihad has been missing since Saturday. He had been working in Israel, but after Hamas\u2019 Saturday attack, the family lost touch with him.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Gaza strip \u2013 the coastal enclave that Hamas controls \u2013 has been pummeled by airstrikes since Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant ordered a \u201ccomplete siege\u201d on the area, including halting supplies of electricity, food, water and fuel to the enclave. \u201cWe are fighting barbarians and will respond accordingly,\u201d Gallant said.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Israeli fighter jets struck more than 200 targets in Gaza overnight, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. The death toll in Gaza now stands at over 900 people according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Palestinian interior ministry said most of the targets were \u201ctowers, residential buildings, civil and service facilities, and many mosques.\u201d Hamas denied that it used any of the targeted towers.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Tariq Al Hillu, a 29-year-old resident of Al Sudaniya in northern Gaza, described complete chaos when airstrikes struck his neighborhood Sunday morning.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      His neighbors were trapped under the rubble, and he could hear their calls for help, he said.    <\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline gallery--hidden\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__main\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__container\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__slides\">                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            <\/div>\n<p>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__prev-overlay\"><\/button>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__next-overlay\"><\/button>      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"gallery-inline__headline\">In pictures: The deadly clashes in Israel and Gaza<\/h5>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__counter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__controls\">        <button class=\"gallery-inline__prev\">          Prev                  <\/button>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__next\">          Next                  <\/button>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said it has turned 83 of its schools in Gaza into makeshift shelters but on Monday they were already at 90% capacity, with more than 137,000 people taking cover from Israeli strikes.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Unlike cities in Israel\u2019s south, the territory doesn\u2019t have dedicated bomb shelters or bunkers that shield civilians from airstrikes.   <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\">    Situation to \u2018deteriorate exponentially\u2019 <\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth, where some two million people live in an area of 140 square miles. More than half of its residents are food insecure and live under the poverty line, according to the UNRWA.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Israel, which controls most of Gaza\u2019s electricity, its water, fuel and some of its food, already imposes a strict land, sea and air blockade on Gaza, but used to allow some trade and humanitarian assistance through the two crossings that it controls.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza was already \u201cextremely dire before these hostilities\u201d and \u201cnow it will only deteriorate exponentially.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized Gallant\u2019s call for a complete siege as a form of \u201ccollective punishment\u201d and a \u201cwar crime.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Shakir also condemned Hamas\u2019 attacks on Israel, saying the \u201cdeliberate targeting of civilians, indiscriminate attacks, and taking of civilians as hostages\u201d also \u201camount to war crimes under international humanitarian law.\u201d     <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Gaza Strip has been the target of Israeli airstrikes in multiple conflicts since Israeli forces withdrew from the territory in 2005. The fighting has often taken place between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A potential Israeli ground invasion, if it were to happen, could significantly worsen the humanitarian situation there.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Israel controls the movement of residents from Gaza into Israel through two crossings, Erez and Kerem Shalom, both of which have been shut.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Some goods, food and fuel also enter Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah crossing, but Eyad al-Bozom, spokesperson for the Palestinian Interior Ministry, said on Tuesday that Rafah had been struck.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In previous wars between Hamas Gaza and Israel, Egypt has allowed aid to enter through the Rafah crossing and helped the wounded exit for treatment.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The World Food Programme said Sunday that while most shops in the territory maintain \u201cone-month stocks of food,\u201d these stocks \u201crisk being depleted swiftly as people stock up in fear of a prolonged conflict.\u201d Repeated electricity cuts also risk food spoilage, it said.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The situation remains desperate for Nadine and her family.     <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cWe have no water; it was cut off yesterday (Monday). We barely get electricity or internet, and we can\u2019t leave the house to buy food as it\u2019s getting more and more dangerous.\u201d Whenever she hears aircraft, she said, \u201cwe hide under the table.\u201d    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A humanitarian crisis is swiftly unfolding in Gaza, as trapped residents, many cut off from food and electricity, face a fourth day of Israeli airstrikes in response to Hamas\u2019 deadly attack on Israel, during which it has killed at least 1,000 people and taken up to 150 hostages. Nadine Abdul Latif, 13, of Gaza City\u2019s <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}