Article 6P79X Israel-Gaza war: Gaza municipality says it can no longer provide 700,000 people in area with drinking water – as it happened

Israel-Gaza war: Gaza municipality says it can no longer provide 700,000 people in area with drinking water – as it happened

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Yohannes Lowe
from World news | The Guardian on (#6P79X)

Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza Strip, says it can no longer provide drinking water after running out of fuel

After a night spent shaking in fear as the roof rattled from explosions, and a long walk along a crowded road, Diana Mahmoud arrived at the hospital where she gave birth to her son, Yaman.

Mahmoud, 22, discovered she was pregnant a week after the outbreak of the war in Gaza and, like other mothers who became pregnant about that time, spent her entire pregnancy fearing for her own safety as well as that of her child. Miscarriages are three times more likely than before the war, according to a February report by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health.

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