Monday, January 05, 2009

Gaza Today

The BBC has a summary of conditions there.
  • Save the Children says there is a "severe shortage of food", but Israel claims international agencies' warehouses are well stocked and points out that it has allowed several convoys of trucks into Gaza during the fighting.
  • Hospitals have been under extreme pressure, with some 2,500 people wounded in the fighting.Emergency workers are struggling to reach the wounded and a number are reported to have died trying.
  • The UN says a million people in Gaza are without electricity. The territory's only power plant, which supplies much of Gaza City, shut down on 30 December because it ran out of industrial diesel fuel.
  • The UN estimated on 5 January that 250,000 people did not have access to running water.

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