This report was commissioned following the publication in 2009 of the UNEP environmental assessment of Gaza. The report paints a panorama of environmental degradation in Gaza. Of particular concern to the HCT, it documents an alarming situation of dangerously contaminated water and a heavily polluted, toxic environment, with consequent threats to infants and children.
The UNEP report‘s salient contribution was to highlight for the humanitarian and wider aid community the extent to which environmental degradation – masked by periodic military destruction of essential infrastructure in Gaza and consequent serial humanitarian emergencies – is creating immediate threats to human health. These have been expressed and addressed as humanitarian needs rather than reframed as nascent (eco) system collapse, with multiple causes and particular accelerants, including military destruction.
Full Report - 46 pages
http://www.unicef.org/oPt/FINAL_Summary_Protecting_Children_from_unsafe_Water_in_Gaza_4_March_2011.pdf
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