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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Federica Marsi

Gaza’s next big threat: Cholera, infectious diseases amid Israeli blockade

Water sold by private vendors who run small solar-powered desalination facilities has doubled in price in Gaza since October 7 [Mohammed Abed/ AFP]

Waseem Mushtaha’s four children have been out of school for almost two weeks. Instead of learning mathematics or geography, they are being taught how to ration water.

“Every day I fill a bottle of water for each one and I tell them: Try to manage this,” he told Al Jazeera, speaking from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. “At the beginning, they struggled, but now they are coping.”

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