The crisis was aggravated by the closure of pumping stations due to the Israeli airstrikes on the border crossings, which prevented the entry of fuel, Wafa denounced.

It stressed that power outages to the coastal enclave also affected because it paralyzed, to a large extent, the operation of a water desalination plant.

“Israeli attacks on sewage treatment plants, collection ponds, the leading transport lines, and the lack of fuel needed to operate the generators caused a real disaster in the city,” Gaza Municipality spokesperson Hosni Mahna said.

In early March, the Palestinian Environmental Quality Authority (EQA) accused Israel of polluting the occupied territories, especially Gaza, where it destroyed 90 percent of the homes and dumped more than 100,000 tons of explosives.

The United Nations estimates that more than 53 billion dollars will be needed to rebuild the Gaza Strip, a process that could take years.

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