RAMALLAH, April 9, 2025 (WAFA) – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Wednesday that children in Gaza are suffering devastating effects as a result of the Israeli occupation's continued closure of the Strip's crossings to aid and commercial supplies for the sixth week.

This came in a post by UNRWA on X, accompanied by a photo of two children helping to pull a cart loaded with water containers.

Since March 2, Israel, the occupying power, has been preventing the entry of essential supplies, including food, water, and nutrition, into the Gaza Strip following its closure of the crossings, causing a humanitarian catastrophe and worsening famine and thirst.

UNRWA said, "In northern Gaza, children are not looking for their toys or pens, but for water. They are not going to school, but pushing carts in search of something to quench their thirst."

It went on to say that Israel's imposition of the blockade and the suspension of the entry of aid and commercial supplies into Gaza for the sixth week has led to "an increasing scarcity of clean water, food, shelter, and medical care."

It also stressed that the continued Israeli blockade has had a "devastating" impact on Gaza's children.

The water crisis in the Gaza Strip is worsening due to the interruption of water supplies from the Israeli company Mekorot to Gaza City, which constitutes 70% of the total available supply.

The UN agency called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

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