Israel Halted Supply of Water to Gaza Amid Ongoing Desalination Crisis
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Some experts say sewage from Gaza – due to water infrastructure damaged by Israel during the war – fueled a microalgae bloom in the Mediterranean that disrupted Israeli desalination facilities, leaving nearly one million Palestinians in Gaza facing water shortages, according to UNICEF.
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Israel’s national water company Mekorot halted the flow of water to Gaza on Tuesday, amid a crisis affecting Israel’s desalination facilities, leading to nearly one million people in Gaza suffering water shortages on that day as a result of the decision, according to UNICEF. The disruption left nearly one million Palestinians in Gaza facing water shortages, UNICEF said.
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
