Gaza: more Than A Million Children Warns of Unlivable Conditions.
More than A million children living in the Gaza Strip,
"One million children in Gaza are living in dire conditions," the group said in a statement on Tuesday. "Save the Children considers Gaza to be unlivable now."
According to the charity, "60 percent of the sea around Gaza is contaminated with untreated sewage and over 90 percent of water sources [are] too contaminated for human consumption".
The besieged Palestinian territory, where more than two million people live, has also been suffering from an energy crisis since mid-April due to a dispute over taxes between Hamas, which rules the enclave, and the occupied West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, the party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The continuing electricity crisis and "environmental crisis" has left the more than one million children in Gaza unable "to sleep, study or play", Save the Children said.
According to the charity, more than 740 schools are struggling to function without electricity and most families receive only two to four hours of electricity each day.
But following the release of a UN report in July that found that living conditions had worsened since the blockade began, the international body's humanitarian coordinator for the occupied territories said that point "of unlivability [had] been passed quite a long time ago".
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