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Politics : View from the Center and Left Middle East Annex

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From: S. maltophilia3/13/2025 6:25:38 PM
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....Ebeid: This is the Palestinian Water Authority office in Gaza?

Bardawil: In Gaza, yes.

Ebeid: So the office itself got destroyed?

Bardawil: Yeah, it’s destroyed.

Ebeid: By the summer of 2024, almost every connection point, every desalination plant, every sewage station had either been totally destroyed or had sustained some amount of damage.

Rosin: So what did that mean for the people who were trapped in Gaza? Because there were still about 2 million people there. How did that change their lives?

Ebeid: This kind of massive destruction of water infrastructure—it does not just affect the water supply; it also leads to diseases. So by the summer of last year, we know that about 600,000 cases of acute diarrhea were reported and 40,000 cases of hepatitis A.

And those are diseases that come from contamination of water and from.....

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