North Gaza Municipalities Union: 75 percent of the population is homeless and the occupation has destroyed the components of food security

The North Gaza Municipalities Union announced that the Zionist entity forces destroyed 45,000 housing units in the northern governorate alone during their ongoing war on the Strip, which led to 75 percent of the governorate's residents losing their homes. Alaa Al-Attar, Mayor of Beit Lahia, said in a press conference today, Monday: "The occupation forces destroyed 50,000 agricultural dunums, which caused food insecurity, explaining that the Zionist war destroyed more than one and a half million square meters of roads and streets in northern Gaza, in addition to 35 water wells and 5 main sewage pumps." Al-Attar pointed out that the occupation destroyed 77 waste and heavy equipment, and destroyed the main desalination plant that serves the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City, in addition to 57 generators used to operate wells and pumps, pointing out that about 60 thousand tons of waste have accumulated in the streets and in front of 60 shelters, in addition to the destruction of more than 85 percent of the tran sportation sector. Al-Attar continued: "We are on the verge of winter and most of the rainwater and sewage networks are destroyed, and this will cause the flooding of many residential areas, especially Jabalia camp, which floods every year due to the deterioration of the networks and their inability to absorb the quantities coming to the central Abu Rashid pump, as well as the Beit Lahia area, the main street after the destruction of the main pump for the city in the Beit Lahia project." The Mayor of Beit Lahia in the Union of Municipalities of North Gaza appealed to the international community to save what remains of human life in the Strip and provide the municipalities' needs, especially the fuel needed to operate wells and sewage pumps. The Zionist entity's intensive, comprehensive and unprecedented aggression on the Gaza Strip has continued since October 7, through launching dozens of airstrikes and shelling by land and sea, which has left tens of thousands of martyrs, wounded and missing, and has cau sed massive destruction to the infrastructure and vital facilities, in addition to the unprecedented humanitarian disaster it has caused in the Strip as a result of stopping the supplies of food, water, medicine and fuel due to the occupation's restrictions. Source: National Iraqi News Agency