The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that disease-spreading insects and rodents are threatening people’s health and well-being in the bombarded territory, Al Jazeera reports.
“UNRWA teams are working to help displaced families in shelters stop them from invading people’s already crammed living spaces,” UNRWA said in a post on X.
Rubbish has been piling up across Gaza after Israel seized control of the territory’s two main landfills, east of the cities of Khan Younis and Gaza City.