Social media reports from Gaza City in recent days have told of a difficult sanitary situation. Many bodies are under the rubble, and the authorities are unable to retrieve them. More than 70,000 tons of unremoved waste and large amounts of sewage and wastewater are flowing in the streets, leading to an extensive spread of rodents and insects, which, in turn, causes diseases and epidemics, especially among children.
In addition to the danger to the population of the Gaza Strip, the spread of epidemics could harm the IDF soldiers, as well as the legitimacy of the operation in Rafah and the continued fighting in Gaza. A tactical event can quickly turn into a strategic one.
It should be recalled that the first sign of famine in the northern Gaza Strip was on January 24, and it took Israel about a month and a half to initiate solutions. Now that we’ve heard about reports of infections and epidemics spreading, a month and a half before the start of the summer when the crisis will only worsen, it’s worth preparing solutions immediately.
Social media reports from Gaza City in recent days have told of a difficult sanitary situation. Many bodies are under the rubble, and the authorities are unable to retrieve them. More than 70,000 tons of unremoved waste and large amounts of sewage and wastewater are flowing in the streets, leading to an extensive spread of rodents and insects, which, in turn, causes diseases and epidemics, especially among children.
In addition to the danger to the population of the Gaza Strip, the spread of epidemics could harm the IDF soldiers, as well as the legitimacy of the operation in Rafah and the continued fighting in Gaza. A tactical event can quickly turn into a strategic one.
It should be recalled that the first sign of famine in the northern Gaza Strip was on January 24, and it took Israel about a month and a half to initiate solutions. Now that we’ve heard about reports of infections and epidemics spreading, a month and a half before the start of the summer when the crisis will only worsen, it’s worth preparing solutions immediately.