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With Desalination Plants Destroyed, Families in Gaza Are Drinking Salty Water | Gazze'deki Tuz Arıtma Tesislerinin Yıkılmasıyla Aileler Tuzlu Su İçiyor
With Desalination Plants Destroyed, Families in Gaza Are Drinking Salty Water
By Eman Abu Zayed
This article was originally published by Truthout
“The water is salty, and sometimes it smells strange, but we have no other choice,” 17-year-old Ruba Al-Amsha said.
Since the beginning of the Israeli genocide and the imposition of a total blockade on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, water desalination plants have almost completely shut down due to severe fuel shortages.
According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, more than 90 percent of water and desalination facilities have gone out of service. As infrastructure systems collapse, thousands of displaced families are left with no option but to rely on contaminated, salty, and undrinkable water sources.
In the camps and tents, life is no longer measured by hours of sleep, but by the number of liters of water that arrive — or fail to arrive.
Six Children Contend With Water Unfit for Human Use
Rahma Fadi, a mother of six living in a tent near Al-Maghazi refugee camp, told me: “When my children cry from thirst, I give them salty water and pray for God’s mercy. What else can I do?”
In an interview earlier this winter, Fadi was able to tell me about her family’s ordeal. Since the beginning of the genocide, she has been unable to access clean water. With desalination plants out of service for many months, her daily routine — and that of her children — has become a long wait for a rare water truck that may or may not arrive. Even when the truck does arrive, the water is often unsafe to drink, stored in plastic jerrycans surrounded by flies. But she has no other choice.
As I spoke with her, Fadi sat with her six children in a worn-out tent on the outskirts of Al-Maghazi refugee camp after being displaced from their home in northern Gaza, specifically the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood. She built the tent from pieces of fabric and plastic stretched tightly over flimsy wooden poles. Inside, the air is heavy with the smell of damp earth mixed with dust and drifting smoke.
The pale faces of Fadi and her children reflect the weight of harsh, unrelenting days: 10-year-old Salma, 8-year-old Mohammed, 5-year-old Ghada, 3-year-old twins Omar and Yaqeen, and baby Zeinab, who has not yet completed her first year. All of them wear tattered clothes that offer little protection from the heat of the day or the cold of night.
Rahma Fadi’s husband, 41-year-old Akram Fadi, used to work as a taxi driver. He sustained an injury to his right leg from an Israeli tank shell while fleeing toward the southern part of Gaza and, due to the severe shortage of medical equipment and treatment capacities, doctors were forced to amputate his leg. As a result, the burden of sustaining the family has fallen almost entirely on Rahma, who had never worked before the war. Today, she stands in his place in long water lines, waiting for hours just to fill a few containers that must last the entire day.
Kidney Patients Are Caught in the Crossfire of Israel’s War on Gaza’s Water
On December 24, 2025, I visited an area in Nuseirat where 17-year-old Ruba Al-Amsha lives with her family in a small tent they set up after being displaced from the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza.
In the late afternoon, Al-Amsha sat at the entrance of the tent, surrounded by empty jerrycans and old plastic containers used to store water. Flies swarmed constantly around the tent and the containers, never leaving.
Speaking in a low voice as she adjusted her position to ease the pain, she said: “I’ve been feeling pain for some time on the right side, around my kidney, especially when I drink water from the tank.”
She added, “The water is salty, and sometimes it smells strange, but we have no other choice.”
Al-Amsha has not yet been able to see a doctor due to transportation difficulties, but her kidney pain worsens day by day.
According to data released by Gaza’s Ministry of Health and government medical offices, between 40 percent and 42 percent of kidney failure patients have died due to the interruption of dialysis services caused by water and electricity shortages and the destruction of medical facilities.
In the absence of clean water, tents have turned into breeding grounds for disease. What Ruba Al-Amsha is experiencing is not an isolated case, but a reflection of a worsening health crisis unfolding in silence — paid for with pain by fragile bodies.
Providing Water to Families in Gaza Means Becoming a Target for Israel
This December I also met Mahmoud Abu Rayan, a water truck driver who bears the weighty responsibility of delivering this vital resource to families in the camps. He continues his work under extremely dangerous conditions, trying to ease the suffering of Gaza’s residents who rely on unsafe water sources.
The 42-year-old father of three continues his daily mission despite fuel shortages and the constant threat of drones, transporting water to camps that lack any safe source of it.
“Sometimes I come home exhausted and overwhelmed by everything I’ve seen, and my children ask me if I’m OK. I tell them, ‘I’m here for you,’ but honestly, I haven’t been able to sleep these days,” he says.
Abu Rayan used to work in a car repair shop before the war began, but he left his job to dedicate himself to water transport after realizing the severity of the escalating crisis.
Watching the tanker unload its water in front of a tent in central Deir al-Balah, he told me: “I know I’m putting myself at risk, but if I don’t bring the water, what are the children supposed to drink?”
In Gaza, before the ceasefire was announced, water truck drivers were frequently targets of the Israeli occupation.
Abu Rayan may now be considered a “threat” to Israel because he has frequently been a witness to the Israeli military’s killing of innocent people, including children and elderly people carrying empty jerrycans, waiting for water to arrive.
“Sometimes I run out of fuel before finishing the route, and I have to walk back or ask for help,” he says.
The shortage of water, in conjunction with the shortage of fuel, makes providing water almost impossible.
Abu Rayan also confirms that random pumping and transporting water in unsterilized tankers increases the risk of contamination, but he adds, “People are thirsty, and they have no other choice.”
Health Workers See Firsthand the Devastation Wrought by Gaza’s Water Crisis
Mahmoud Abu Rayan’s struggle to deliver water intersects with that of Sajid Ashraf, an employee at Gaza’s Ministry of Health and Al-Zahra Municipality. Ashraf, who is married and has two children, works daily on the front lines dealing with the consequences of the water crisis.
Ashraf explained in an interview with me that the shutdown of desalination plants due to fuel shortages has intensified the water crisis, leading to a rise in waterborne diseases in densely populated areas.
“We are witnessing an increase in cases of diarrhea and poisoning, especially among children and the elderly,” he said.
“Working under these conditions is extremely difficult. The lack of resources and the immense pressure on the health system make our mission more challenging, but we do everything we can to provide medical and preventive support,” he added.
Ashraf also spoke about his efforts at Al-Zahra Municipality to help provide water and clean public spaces to reduce the spread of disease: “Despite all the difficulties, we try to be a support system for the community during this crisis.”
This Crisis Demands an Urgent Humanitarian Response
On my way back to Nuseirat, I passed one of the camps near Deir al-Balah, where families stood in long lines in front of temporary water tanks. Children carried old plastic jerrycans, while women struggled to fill them amid dirt and debris surrounding the tanks.
The air was thick with dust and the smell of dry earth, and the sounds of children crying and shouting filled the space.
Under the scorching sun, people anxiously waited for the arrival of a water truck, which could be delayed for hours due to fuel shortages and restrictions on movement.
The water crisis in Gaza is not merely a technical or logistical problem — it is a profound humanitarian catastrophe affecting the lives of 2 million people every single day. As the blockade continues and fuel remains scarce, countless lives hang in the balance between thirst and danger. An urgent international response is needed to ease this suffering and ensure access to clean water for all those in need.
This article was originally published by Truthout and is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Please maintain all links and credits in accordance with our republishing guidelines.
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Bu Tüm Dünya için Geçerlidir | This Appliez Worldwide - 13.01.2026
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Protestolar, ister yerel bir soruna karşı olsun, ister bir ülkenin sözde 'hükümetine' karşı olsun, bugün yalnızca Kabal Ajanda'yı besler ve sizi oyalar;
kazandığınızı zannettiğiniz küçük veya büyük 'zaferler' de dolayısıyla aslında hep Kabal Mafya'nın zaferi olacaktır.
Ve fakat bu elbette ki olanları hiçbir şey yapmadan sâdece izleyin demek değildir, ama doğru aksiyonun ne olduğunu bilmek zorundayız.
Odaklanılması gereken yegâne meşrû ve mâkûl eylem, Kabal Ajanda'nın dünya çapında simültane reddedilmesi doğrultusunda araya hiçbir 'politikacı' denen kukla bulaştırılmadan direkt #SâdeceHalk olarak birleşmektir.
Bu yüzden artık 'lider' şartlandırılmasından vezgeçilip konsensüse odaklanılması gerekiyor.
Bu tüm dünya için geçerlidir, ve hiçbir bölge istisnâ değildir.
Herhangi bir bölgenin mevcut sözde 'yönetimi' yerine başka kişileri 'yönetime getirmek' bir illüzyondur, zira onlar da - her ne kadar 'halktan yana' da görünseler -, dünyaya kitlevi hipnoz yoluyla dayatılan parasal sistem ve sözde 'diplomasi' ortamının onları uyum sağlamaya zorunlu tutacağı tâvizcilik ve iltimasçılık yüzünden yine aynı karanlık Kabal Ajanda'ya hizmet edeceklerdir.
Kaldı ki, küresel çapta simültane uygulanmakta olan Kabal Ajanda'nın bertaraf edilmesi de halkın ancak dünya çapında simültane bir reddedişte birleşimiyle mümkün olacağı için, herhangi bir bölgedeki lokal girişimler maalesef bu birleşime odaklanma çabasını bölmüş olacak, dolayısıyla lokal çabalar iyi niyet üzre bile olsalar maalesef aynı karanlığa hizmet olarak kayda geçecektir.
Zihinsel ve fiziksel enerjinizi ve zamanınızı bu yüzden 'lider' ve 'kişi' 'seçip' tâkip etmeye değil, âciliyet gerektiren noktaların tespit edilerek yalnızca sorunların ve konuların oylanmasına ve konsensüs sağlanmasına odaklamalısınız.
Ayrıca, herhangi bir önerinin kabûl edilmesi o kabûl edilen öneriyi getirenlere herhangi bir ayrıcalık getirmemesi gerektiği gibi, herhangi bir önerinin reddedilmesi de o reddedilen öneriyi getirenlerin hâlihazırdaki katılım hakkının kaybını veyâ daha az saygı görmelerini de gerektirmemelidir, çünkü tekrar edelim, odaklanmamız gereken artık kişiler değil, yalnızca konular olmalıdır.
Medya ve toplumsal histeri tesiriyle olayların heyecanına kapılmaktan kaçının;
esas hedefe odaklanın.
Gerçekçiliğin ve hakiki zaferin ölçüsü paranın, gücün ve silahın kimde olduğu değil, vicdan ve sağduyu sâhibi insanların karanlığa karşı tek ses ve tek vücut olarak dünya çapında simültane olarak birleşmeye ne denli odaklanabildiğidir.
Protestz, whether against a local issue or against the so-called 'government' of a country, 2day only feed the Cabal Agenda and distract U;
there4, any small or large 'victoriez' U think U've won will ultimately alwayz be victoriez 4 the Cabal Mafia.
But this certainly doezn't mean we should just watch what'z happening without doing anything, but we need 2 know what the right course of action iz.
The only legitimate and reazonable action that should be focused on iz 2 unite in a simultaneous worldwide rejection of the Cabal Agenda, directly az #OnlyThePeople, without involving any 'puppetz' called 'politicianz'.
There4, we need 2 move away from the 'leader' conditioning and focus on consensus.
This appliez worldwide, and no region iz an exception.
Replacing the existing so-called 'government' of any region with otherz iz an illusion, becauze they too – however 'pro-people' they may appear – will ultimately serve the same dark Cabal Agenda due 2 the compromizes and favoritizm that the monetary system and so-called 'diplomacy' impozed on the world through mass hypnosis will force them 2 conform 2.
Moreover, since the elimination of the globally implemented Cabal Agenda iz only possible through a globally unified rejection, local initiativez in any region will un4tunately only serve 2 divide the effort 2wardz this unity, and there4, even if done in good faith, theze local effortz will un4tunately be recorded az serving the same darkness.
There4, U should focus your mental and phyzical energy and time not on 'electing' and following 'leaderz' and 'individualz,' but on identifying urgent issuez and addressing only the problemz and topics, and reaching consensus.
Furthermore, the acceptance of any propozal should not grant any privilege 2 thoze who propozed it, just az the rejection of any propozal should not rezult in the loss of the right 2 participate or diminishing the respect of thoze who propozed it, becauze, let us reiterate, our focus should no longer be on individualz, but solely on issuez.
Avoid getting carried away by the excitement of the eventz due 2 media and social hysteria;
focus on the main goal.
The measure of realizm and true victory iz not who pozzessez the money, power, and weaponz, but how well people of conscience and common sense can unite worldwide simultanously az one voice and one body against the darkness.
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