Of about 97 of the wells in the strip contain very high amounts of these items, its five to six times higher than other places اضعاف او احيانا اكثر من ذلك في ابار مياه الشرب في قطر يعني يعني هذا التقرير ان في عام 2019, all the wells in the gaza strip will be heavily polluted to an extent that the water will be unfit for drinking تعتبر المياه غير صالحه لاغراض الشرب. The per capita consumption of water in the gaza strip is a about 70 leaters, it is much below the rate set by the World Health Organization for minimum consumption per capita. Thats while the consumption in the Israeli Occupied territories is several times more, in the occupied territories, every person consumes about 350 liters of water each day average, while in the gaza strip the number is between 70 and 80 liters regardless of the quality of the water. In the us, germany and france, i think the number varies, but in comparison with israel, its much less and up to about 170 l per capita per day. The coastal aquafer is an important source of water for the residence of the gaza strip, where they consume about 170 million cubic meters of water annually. Rain water is the only source to replenish the underground reservoir of Drinking Water with an estimated average annual rainfall of 125 million cubic meters. Of this amount, only 55 million cubic meters reach to subsurface reservoir. Geology says that the gaza streep is fed with water flowing from the east to the west. The direction of the ground water in the. Gaza streep or in the coastal equiffers throughout palestine is from the east toward the west. Therefore the water goes from the east to the west. The area here is considered as semiarid region. The rainfall here is up to 400 milliter per year in beit hanon. This amount has not changed for a long time. The only variable is the number of the people. عده اضعاف. We consume three to four times more than the amount required to reach the subsurface reservoir annually. In other words, we have annual water deficit in this situation, thats more than about 110 million cubic meters. Valleys are other water sources that provide the people of the gaza strip with water, one of them in bait hanley. In the north of the gaza strip, which has been in the hands of Israeli Occupying forces for years. The same goes for the gaza valley, one of the largest pools in palestine, providing gaza with about 25 million cubic meters of water. This valley is also under the control of the Israeli Regime. وادي غزه ينبع من منطقه الخليل اصلا ويجري في مسافات it stretches over a long distance, it has several tributaries. على but the drillings to extract more water have negatively impacted the amount of water carried up to the gaza strip, that amount depends on the rainfall and varies from year to year, but generally speaking, it used to be good and useful for the soft surface reservoir, but now the reality is that the sewage from all over the gaza middle zone pours into the gaza valley, which is detrimental effects on both human and the environment, the valleys of alselka, baithan and gaza are seasonal valleys, not permanent ones. These valleys were closed by the Israeli Regime in the year 2000, so as to create huge catchment areas. There are about seven catchment areas for collecting surface water. They are used by the Israeli Regime irrigate the areas it occupies. Therefore, nothing has reached from these surface white. يصل على القطاع غزه منذ عام 2000 تقريبا. As we know since the 1970s, that is about 40 to 45 years ago, the Israeli Regime has drilled many wells alongside the ground water streams that flow into the gaza strip. This is for sure, if we go to areas in dar albala, eastern gaza and areas in the north, we will see that there are many water wells that absorb the underground water coming in. The Israeli Regime has drilled a number of water wells here on the border so as to loot the ground Water Reservoir located in the bates lahya and redirected via the green line into the occupied territories. You can guess that the remaining clean water is only in 20 of beedlahiya whereas in 80 of the area. The water is like seawater, in a water and Environment Laboratory at gazas alazhar university, ground water is tested a regular basis. The last test was to assess the water well of the university, the main source of water in this educational center. In the groundwater wells, the process of assessment of water uses silver nitrates, regient factor for detecting color, which is potassium decromate, now well take a sample of water from a well at 10 ml to be exact and put it in a decanter. We can take any amount, but we take 10 milliliters. Well take a small amount due to the high rates of chloride, and of course, add some drops of the detector, which is potassium chromate a substance that gives us yellow color. Then we start calibrating. Now we add silver nitrates which starts to interact with. Now silver nitrates has interacted with chloride, this means the amount of nitrate depleted equals the amount of chloride. Chloride, which represents the salinity in the sample ground water athar university. And after the necessary chemical calculations, we found out that the chlorine concentration in the groundwater is 1,200 milligrams per liter. This indicates that the water is very salty and unfit for human consumption, or even for agricultural use, except in some very rare cases. This phenomenon of high salinity can be seen in all the wells in the gazer strip. According to the World Health Organization, the allowed rate of chloride in Drinking Water. The high proportion of salt in the underground water used by the red the strip is mainly due to the mixture of sea water and ground water that feeds the underground Water Reservoir. If the reservoir is filled with rain water alone, the underground water should not be that salty. This Electrical Conductivity meter device measures the salt in water, and of course the salt dissolved in water, in case of ionization, there are two poles of electron within the device, the electrical conductor. Whenever the rate of salt is too high, the current is too high. We found in the sample, which represents the ground water of alazhar university, that the total rate of salt was 4,048 million grams per liter, as said by the world health organisation, the normal rate for Drinking Water is around 1500 mg. The tab water here is very brackish as if it was brought right from the sea, as you can see we have no water now, suffer as you can see, i have no water now, just have look, there you go, this is the tab without water, the other one has no water too, burly dripping, im suffering from the situation, when i want to take a shower, there is no water, i feel the sea water in this pale, i shower using the kittle like that due to the lack of water, i go to the sea taking one pail or two with me and fill. With the sea water, as you know, the sea is polluted nowadays and the water is not clean, what can i do to get rid of this situation . I go home and take a shower in the middle of my home. Sometimes i dont want to take a shower, but my wife has to wash the dishes after we have eaten. When she finds no water, my wife asks me to get. One or two pils of water from the sea, i walk around 100 meters, then i go down around 30 meters to get the water and come back from the same route. What kind of life do we lead . This is not a life, as you can see. I brought you the water for washing the dishes and for domestic use. Ive brought it from the sea, use as. Little water as you can so that we have it for a longer time. I dont want to keep coming and going carrying water pels. Wash those cups. Take out the cops, give me that, use less water so that it will suffice. Ive brought it for you. اياها. الكميه المستنزفه من الغزال اكبر بكثير منكميه. Is much more than the quantity returned today, through studies we did on the existing wells in the west of the ghaza city over the past 15 years, we note a sharp and not a gradual transition from light, the existing wells in the west of the city must be closed and the reliance must be on new wells in the east of the city to reduce the very dangerous leak of the seawater into the dry land, especially in the northwest of gaza strip. The ground water contamination and the high proportion of salt in it, are not only due to the intrusion of the sea water in the ground water. They are also the effect of an untreated. Switch flow towards the sea, which runs along the beach of baidlah and rafa from the south to the north. It adversely affects the seawater and groundwater sanitation, making it polluted and as a result, unfit for human consumption water is harmful to children, they become sick, the last time i stead about six days at hospital with my elder son, the doctors told me that. He had something more dangerous than men and jetties, he was taken to the intensity of care unit, blesters that appeared on his body, the bless is the mainly caused by salt water, as you can see, the water is salty, the hair has been damaged, the boys have undergone several surgeries, the rashes are all over their bodies, theres nothing to do, we are tired, حاليا, we have a large number of disease. Gaza now diseases like cancers, kidney problems and renal failure, heart and vascular problems as well as other diseases such as diarrhea that affect children. There are also about five to six other common diseases in the gaza strip. We studied the causes of these diseases, environmentals are directly responsible. Water is a chemical compound made up of set of elements. We found out that the quality of water plays major role in these diseases and their spread in the gaza street. The combination of raw sewage and seawater threatens the safety of recreation areas as well as the health of those who take refuge from the unreasonable heat of the area and is constant Power Outages in the seaside. The seawater pollution caused by this sewage has become a threat to the health of those swim in the sea. Some studies have demonstrated the existence of bacterial and fungal contamination. Diseases, skin diseases, in addition to the diseases that result from the industrial waste water, they contain chemical substances, which are also in the water of the beaches here, due to the lack of water here, im forced to go to the sea to shower them, then as you can see, use the sea water to wash my body, endure a great deal of suffering, blisters are all over my body, i should go to the sea, my husband says that its polluted with sewage, where shall i go then, we have no water to take a bath with. If the sewage was treated, it could replenish the acquiver without causing any problem. However, these huge awkward pits are not good enough to keep such amount of sewage properly, and as a result, part of it leaks into the groundWater Reservoir. They drilled a well for us when we. Came to reside in this area, it is still here, they irrigate the area using the well, we used to drink its water, we asked the municipality staff, if the water was contaminated, they said they had examined it and it was fine. We were surprised to see worms in the water after leaving it in a bottle for two or three days. The water was soaking with soap like foam once we shook the bottle, we told them we couldnt drink that contaminated. قام وير في ابراج العوده شربنا من ابراج العوده towers area with drank from there if the basins stay like that all the residential towers will face the same situation عشوائي اذا بيظل المجر عشوائيات water contamination has an adverse effect on the agricultural sector. Once the Agricultural Products used to be exported overseas from the gaza strip, but now the locals have heardly enough for their domestic use. معبر بيتun بتشم رائحه. As soon as you come to bait hanon, you begin to smell lemon and orange up to the rafa region, water salinity. Is the major problem here, Everybody Knows that setrus trees need fresh water with low rate of salinity, citrus trees no longer grow well here because the water is salty and contains a very high degree of chloride, اشجارارات لم تععد تنمو بالشكل المطلوب. كانت citruses used to be exported from the gaza strip to all over the world with the exception of some states that were not importers, the growth. Export of cituses are diminishing just because of salty water, sewage and israeli suction of water. For these reasons we import citrus fruits from the occupied territories today. The Agricultural Land in baklahiya was once over 10,000 dunams, now due to water salinity and contamination from the east to the west and the south, the Agricultural Land do not exceed 4,00 dunams in bettleه المياه من الغرب ومن الجنوب. اصبحت شايف عليه الاراضي الزراعيه ما تزيد عن. 4000 دلم في منطقه بيتلي before the water crisis in the gaza strip the citizens used to buy water from the desalination plants at prices not affordable for all. I have no money to buy fresh water or to bathe my children with fresh water or to cook food with fresh water. Today is a great day for me because i can fill the tank with fresh water. I had not filled the tank with fresh water for about two months. I collected the money from my brothers. We have three brothers living in the same house. Each of us paid 10 to 15 shekels in order to fill the tank like this, so as my kids, brothers, nephews and nieces will be able to shower with fresh water. The cost of safe Drinking Water is high, not all citizens can afford it for their children and others. The living situation is very difficult for the majority the population in the gaza strip. In economic terms, the level of poverty is very high in the strip. المواطنين. Desalination plants are a temporary solution to the crisis. The aquifers are overpumped. On the other hand, the amount of waste water from the desalination process is huge, as it often goes to the sewers. We have to do so because people are suffering from the lack of fresh water. How can they buy fresh water if there is no desalination station, shall they die trying to secure water for their children or for what . Large amounts of water are extracted daily, half of which goes to sewers or into the ground once again, the water is salty, so they benefit from half of it, so they have to overpump Water Reservoirs, which leads to the depletion of the aquafar. Of water can be possibly waste water and 75 of it desalinated water. Waste water depends on the quality of ground water. It is difficult to take advantage of the waste water if the ground water is too salty. In the gaza strip, as the population increases, the need for Drinking Water intensifies, and the challenge to find solution for this purpose. Gets more serious. Solution to the water crisis in the gaza strip lies in three points that we summarize as follows first, to set up large scale desalination plants and to treat sewage water as much as possible to reuse in agriculture. Second, to stop or decrease the proportion of wells allocated to the agriculture sector, and third, to import water from outside. We have an international right, we can have records to the International Court for our rights and our share in the waters of underground reservoirs in the west and in the waters of the jordan river. The salination plans must be built over the next five years, because by 2020, the gaza strip will not be habitable given the current circumstances. Therefore, we must start. One of the most Important Solutions to the water crisis is to put an end to the Israeli Occupation of palestinian territories. Its now an open secret that the Israeli Regime steals and keeps both underground and surface water that flow into the gaza strip. I was wearing a uniform and holding a gun when i was in the army. I was shocked at the reality like this can happen 40 minutes from my house. Approximately 800 to 1,000 children are detained each year, the fairly. Terrifying experience for the next 12 to 24 hours, put the camera down and يغلطا تغلطوا الاميات. Now whats special about my unit is that it does um undercover operation, we many doing the occupied territories, its about making sure palistins will never be free. More than 500 the children were killed during the conflict, what have they done wrong . Being born in gaza is not the crime. More than year after the war was weiged by the Israeli Regime on the gaza strip, and approximately year after the cairo donors conference was held for rebuilding gaza, the reconstruction project is still teetering between the cruelty of the siege. And the procrastination of the Israeli Regime. What we are doing here is to keep people surviving, we are not talking about quality of life in gaza. If you look deeply in what is going on in gaza, you will find out big slogan that there is no tomorrow. All agree that the slowdown in the reconstruction is due to the slow process of transferring funds pledged by the donor countries at the cairo conference where the unwell received. Only 270 Million Dollars while the required budget is much more one youre watching here. Your headlines for this hour israels savage strikes on the ghaza strip claim the lives of hundreds of palestinian children as a death toll rises to 1,500. The organization of Islamic Corporation condemns israels strikes on the gaza strip as a war crime and blatant violation of International Law and propalestine activists hold more rallies across the world in solidarity with the people of gaza accusing israel of committing genocide