A Palestinian environment body says that two-thirds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip suffer from the spread of water-borne diseases due to the lack of potable water and the lack of working water desalination plants as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression, Al Jazeera reports.

In a statement, the Environment Quality Authority said people are at risk from cholera, chronic diarrhoea, and intestinal diseases.

“The Israeli occupation’s bombing of sewage lines and their flooding had led to a health and environmental catastrophe, especially the Sheikh Radwan pond, which has reached a critical level due to the accumulation of rainwater and the leakage of wastewater into it,” the authority said.