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GazaFour children killed in five days; a well serving 4,000 damaged
The UN children's agency says five more children were left with lasting injuries on Tuesday, and that a strike wrecked a well and desalination unit at Deir al-Balah.
Rights1,244 of Gaza's 1,275 mosques damaged or destroyed, office says
Gaza's government media office puts the number levelled outright at 1,077, says water installations are being taken apart along with the rest of the territory's civilian infrastructure, and asks the mediators to enforce the ceasefire they underwrote.
GazaOil reaches 40 of Gaza's 700 water and sewage generators
With the machines at a fifth of capacity, crews are supplying drinking water first and collecting sewage second, and have stopped clearing rubble altogether. If the pumping stations halt, the wastewater reaches the shelters.
GazaCamps by Gaza's Yellow Line report 20 litres of water a family
Managers of the displacement sites south of Zeitoun say the marker line was pushed westward, and that some aid organisations will no longer send teams to what is now the near side of it.
CultureIn Battir, a Roman-era water system still runs the farming season
Spring water reaches the terraces on an eight-day rota, and it needs neither fuel nor a pump.