INDIA TODAY
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a CNN interview on Sunday that Israeli officials have informed him that water pipes in southern Gaza have been turned back on.
On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sullivan said Israeli officials informed him of the development in the last hour. This came days after Israel cut off the flow of food, medicine, water and electricity to Gaza as part of its “total blockade” on the area.
Israel had ordered a blockade on Gaza on the fourth day of its conflict with Hamas terrorists.
According to a report by news agency AP, the United Nations shelters in Gaza were running out of water as of today. Juliette Touma, a spokesperson for the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, said, “Gaza is running dry,” adding that UN teams have also begun to ration water.
Across Gaza, families rationed dwindling water supplies, with many forced to drink dirty or brackish water.
AID UNABLE TO REACH GAZA
Amid shortages of basic necessities in Gaza, Egypt has stepped up diplomatic efforts to enable aid deliveries into the area and to de-escalate fighting, the Egyptian presidency said on Sunday.
Aid from several countries has been building up in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula due to a failure to reach a deal enabling its safe delivery to Gaza along with evacuations of some foreign passport holders through the Rafah crossing into Egypt.
Israeli bombardments on the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing into Egypt, the main crossing out of Gaza not controlled by Israel, have disrupted operations there.
