{"id":4162,"date":"2024-04-13T03:55:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T03:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2024-04-13T03:55:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T03:55:54","slug":"un-says-waterborne-illnesses-spread-in-gaza-due-to-heat-unsafe-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/4162.html","title":{"rendered":"UN says waterborne illnesses spread in Gaza due to heat, unsafe water"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>GENEVA &#8211; Waterborne diseases are spreading in Gaza due to a lack of clean water and rising temperatures, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in the Gaza Strip said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is becoming very hot there,&#8221; Jamie McGoldrick added, &#8220;People are getting much less water than they need, and as a result, there have been waterborne diseases due to lack of safe and clean water and the disruption of the sanitation systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to find a way in the months ahead of how we can have a better supply of water into the areas where people are currently crowded at the moment,&#8221; he said, after making his final visit to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Contaminated water and poor sanitation are linked to diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery and hepatitis A, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA &#8211; Waterborne diseases are spreading in Gaza due to a lack of clean water and rising temperatures, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in the Gaza Strip said on Friday. &#8220;It is becoming very hot there,&#8221; Jamie McGoldrick added, &#8220;People are getting much less water than they need, and as a result, there have been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4164,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}