Israel blocking water purification material from entering Gaza, UN says

Israel is preventing critical materials necessary to purify drinking water from entering the besieged Gaza Strip, Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, the special rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation at the UN, said.

Arrojo-Agudo said that every person in Gaza is receiving only 4.7 litres of water daily.

He added that Israeli authorities are preventing 70 percent of the necessary materials to purify water from entering Gaza and warned about water pollution, calling it a “silent bomb with a much bigger effect than the one that destroys buildings”.