Human Rights Watch: Israel left 600,000 people without water

In its post on its account on the social media platform X, HRW stated that the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip puts Palestinian children and other civilians at great risk.

Israel reportedly cut off water supplies to Gaza on October 11, depriving 600,000 people of drinking water; It was stated that not allowing access to water, fuel and electricity put people’s lives at risk.

The statement noted that Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza was fatal for children.
In his statement on October 10, Israeli Energy Minister Yisrael Katz stated that the flow of water to the Gaza Strip, where approximately 2 million Palestinians live, was cut off.

IT ALL STARTED ON OCTOBER 7

Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, launched a comprehensive attack against Israel on the morning of October 7, dubbed the “Aqsa Flood.”

As thousands of rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel, Palestinian armed groups attacked and seized the Beit Hanun-Erez border gate on the Gaza-Israel border. Armed groups then entered settlements inside Israel from here and the Israeli army launched an attack on the Gaza Strip with dozens of fighter jets.

It was reported that 1,400 Israelis, including 306 soldiers, were killed and 3,968 Israelis were wounded in the attacks carried out from Gaza. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza announced that 3,785 people, including 1,524 children, were killed and more than 12,000 injured in Israel’s attacks on Gaza.
It was claimed that 77 Palestinians were killed in attacks by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.

In the clashes that began between the Israeli army and Hezbollah on the Lebanese border on October 8, 12 members of Hezbollah, 2 members of Islamic Jihad and 3 civilians, one of whom was a journalist, lost their lives. Two Israeli soldiers and one Israeli civilian lost their lives in the attacks carried out by Lebanon. In Israel’s attack on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza on October 17, 471 people were killed and 342 injured, 28 of them seriously. (AA)