GENEVA, Switzerland — Residents of the Gaza Strip are forced to live in bombed-out buildings or camp next to giant piles of trash, a United Nations spokesman said on Friday, denouncing the 'unbearable' conditions in the besieged Palestinian territory.
GENEVA, Switzerland — Residents of the Gaza Strip are forced to live in bombed-out buildings or camp next to giant piles of trash, a United Nations spokesman said on Friday, denouncing the 'unbearable' conditions in the besieged Palestinian territory.Louise Wateridge of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, described the 'extremely dire' living conditions in the Gaza Strip.
About 150 meters away, she said, a pile of around 100,000 tons of waste is building up, with makeshift tents pitched all around it.'The population is living among it,' she said. 'With the temperatures rising, it's really adding misery to the living conditions.'Wateridge also said that before the war, sanitation units would clear all the trash from refugee camps to landfill sites.
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