According to UNICEF estimates, recently displaced children are in the southern part of Gaza Strip You only have access to 1.5 to 2 liters of water per dayfar below the levels recommended for survival alone.
According to humanitarian standards, the minimum amount of water needed in an emergency is 15 liters, including water for drinking, washing and cooking. For survival purposes only, the estimated minimum is 3 liters per day.
Hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people, an estimated half of whom were children, arrived in Rafah in early December in desperate need of food, water, shelter, medicine and protection. As demand continues to rise, the city's water and sanitation systems are in extremely critical condition. The resumption of hostilities, coupled with lack of electricity, fuel shortages, limited access and damage to infrastructure, results in at least 50% of water and sanitation facilities being damaged or destroyed.
The consequences for children are particularly dramatic because Children are also more susceptible to dehydration, diarrhea, illness and malnutritionAll factors that can worsen and endanger their survival. Concerns about water-borne diseases such as cholera and chronic diarrhea are particularly exacerbated by the lack of clean water, particularly after this week's rains and floods. Providers have already recorded nearly 20 times the monthly average number of cases of diarrhea in children under 5, as well as an increase in cases of scabies, lice, chickenpox, skin rashes and more than 160,000 cases of acute respiratory infections.