Water is now "running out" in Gaza, Jason Lee of Save the Children told the BBC this morning from Ramallah in the West Bank.
He said the aid agency had had reports that the water was flowing in parts of southern Gaza again, but that without fuel or electricity to pump it, it would not be available to the general population.
The UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA told the BBC on Monday that the 6000 displaced people at its Rafah logistics base were down to one litre of water per person per day.
It also posted on social media that a quarter of a million people had moved to its shelters in the past 24 hours - the majority of them in Unrwa schools where "clean water has actually run out".
The UN’s office for coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said on Sunday that Israel had partially resumed water supply to the eastern Khan Younis area but that the volume and impact of this supply was unclear.
OCHA also said in its report that Gaza’s last functioning seawater desalination plant shut down on Sunday and that some people were resorting to consuming brackish water extracted from agricultural wells.
The main suppliers of clean drinking water are now private vendors who operate small desalination and water purification plants mostly run by solar energy, the organisation said.
Jason Shawa, a translator working in Gaza, said he was watching out for water tankers and paying to fill up a cubic-metre sized container - which "maybe will last us for two days if we ration it".Water is now "running out" in Gaza, Jason Lee of Save the Children told the BBC this morning from Ramallah in the West Bank.
He said the aid agency had had reports that the water was flowing in parts of southern Gaza again, but that without fuel or electricity to pump it, it would not be available to the general population.
The UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA told the BBC on Monday that the 6000 displaced people at its Rafah logistics base were down to one litre of water per person per day.
It also posted on social media that a quarter of a million people had moved to its shelters in the past 24 hours - the majority of them in Unrwa schools where "clean water has actually run out".
The UN’s office for coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said on Sunday that Israel had partially resumed water supply to the eastern Khan Younis area but that the volume and impact of this supply was unclear.
OCHA also said in its report that Gaza’s last functioning seawater desalination plant shut down on Sunday and that some people were resorting to consuming brackish water extracted from agricultural wells.
The main suppliers of clean drinking water are now private vendors who operate small desalination and water purification plants mostly run by solar energy, the organisation said.
Jason Shawa, a translator working in Gaza, said he was watching out for water tankers and paying to fill up a cubic-metre sized container - which "maybe will last us for two days if we ration it".
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