Ahmed Alrobai, the head manager of the South Gaza Desalination Plant, has warned of the dangers following Israel’s cut in the electricity supply to the vital facility, which could deprive hundreds of thousands of people of clean water, Al Jazeera reports.

“Now we depend on generators that are not in the best condition because they have been operating since the war broke out,” he said. “They haven’t been maintained properly due to a lack of necessary spare parts and therefore, these generators could stop working at any time.”