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Gaza garbage crisis: Two million trapped in sea of waste and rubble

More than two million people in the Gaza Strip are struggling to protect their health as they live near piles of trash mixed with dirt and debris across the enclave, with limited resources to clear what were once vibrant, densely populated areas filled with bustling markets.

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00:00A garbage crisis in the Gaza Strip. The lack of sanitary services such as garbage collection is now putting lives
00:07at risk.
00:09Much of Gaza City and much of the territory remains in ruins with no clear timeline for reconstruction.
00:14More than 2 million people in the Gaza Strip are now struggling to protect their health as they live near
00:20piles of trash mixed with the dirt and debris across the enclave.
00:25There is a health crisis in Gaza. Our children are sick. We got sick. We wake up among the germs
00:31and we are suffering.
00:33We call on all nations sustained by Gaza to help with this crisis. Summer is also approaching. It's March now.
00:40It will get warmer in a month.
00:42There will be heat and germs and smell will come out along with rats and bugs. Everyone is affected.
00:48Instead of breathing in clean air, they breathe in garbage. Local municipalities and the United Nations Development Programme have been
00:57leading efforts to clear waste and debris, but the resources are limited.
01:01The cost of living has also skyrocketed amid a shortage of goods in a region that has been battled by
01:07months of conflict.
01:08We are here in a place with a gigantic cost on human lives, which is human-provoked. What we need
01:17now is access. And this is really our only ask. We are capable of doing this. We have the people
01:24to do this. We have the financial resources to do this. We have the technical capabilities of doing this. What
01:30we need is access.
01:33As the war now turns gears and focus on Iran, Gaza is still reeling from the effects of the war.
01:40There is a dilapidated state of health as garbage keeps piling up without any help expected.
01:46policy changes.
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01:47law
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01:51data
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