Overview

• UNRWA and Gaza health officials report temperatures soaring above 40°C, driving up dehydration cases and outbreaks of skin and waterborne diseases.
• Gaza’s remaining pipelines and desalination plants operate below capacity after infrastructure damage, leaving water deliveries at under three liters per person per day.
• UN health agencies warn that displacement orders and bombardments are trapping crucial water and sanitation facilities in militarized zones.
• Israeli officials say they reconnected a desalination plant to Israel’s power grid, delivered water through Mekorot pipelines and approved a UAE-backed water line from Egypt.
• COGAT accuses UNRWA of partisan alignment with Hamas, a dispute that analysts say is undermining coordinated relief efforts.