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UNICEF, the UN Children\u2019s Fund,\u00a0issued a statement from Deir al-Balah in Gaza\u2019s central area, where untreated sewage run-off formed large pools on the road<\/strong> next to shelters for forcibly displaced people.<\/p>\n \u201cSewage water is all over the streets,\u201d<\/strong> said UNICEF spokesperson Salim Oweis, who highlighted the destruction of Gaza\u2019s water and sanitation network, and its sewage treatment plants, since war erupted on 7 October, after Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel.<\/p>\n Diarrhoea and skin rashes continue to impact Gazans forced multiple times from their homes and shelters, according to UNICEF, amid increasingly urgent calls for a ceasefire to allow the delivery of oral polio vaccines after traces of the disease were discovered in sewage water in June and confirmed in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n It is understood that no one in the enclave has yet been vaccinated for polio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The development came as the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of parts of the southern city of Khan Younis on Sunday, citing \u201csignificant terrorist activity and exploitation\u201d of its self-designated \u201chumanitarian zone\u201d, including rocket fire towards Israel from the Aljalaa area.\u00a0<\/p>\n UNRWA, the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees, highlighted the impact of \u201cmultiple\u201d evacuation orders issued since last Thursday on Gaza\u2019s most vulnerable individuals in Khan Younis, some of the approximately 75,000 people believed to have been displaced:\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThere was one elderly man who was desperately trying to push his mobility scooter, which kept getting stuck in the sand<\/strong>,\u201d Louise Wateridge, UNRWA senior communications officer, told UN News<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHe had very few belongings on the scooter\u2026He is pushing it through this horrible sandy road and some young men kept coming to help him dig it out of the sand to continue pushing it. But you could just see the exhaustion and the struggle that he was going through.\u201d<\/p>\n More than 10 months into the war, Gazans remain desperate for clean water, food and medical help, while temperatures remain dangerously hot, Ms. Wateridge said.\u00a0<\/p>\nDaily disease threat<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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