Rafah water facility demolition raises health risks in Gaza, UN says
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Two-year-old Ismail Abu Naji receives treatment for sores on his legs at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on July 29, 2024. U.N. agencies say scabies, chicken pox, skin rashes and lice are spreading quickly in Gaza. A satellite image obtained on July 30, 2024, shows the Canada Well water facility in Rafah before the site was damaged in an Israeli army explosion. (Planet Labs via Reuters) Displaced Palestinians queue for water in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 30, 2024.
U.N. agencies warn that the demolition of a critical water facility in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip increases the risk of infectious diseases as people are forced to drink unsafe water while sanitary conditions continue to deteriorate.
The Soyuz-2.1 rocket booster with Soyuz MS-26 space ship blasts off in the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sept. 11, 2024. (Ivan Timoshenko, Roscosmos space corporation, via AP) Expedition 72 crew members include NASA astronaut Don Pettit, left, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner, right, pose on Sept. 10, 2024, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
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