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August 4, 2014

U.N. Warns of "Rapidly Unfolding" Gaza Health Crisis 
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The United Nations is warning of a "rapidly unfolding" health crisis in
Gaza as large parts of the territory remain without power or running
water, and well over 300,000 are displaced. The United Nations' top
humanitarian official for the Occupied Territories, James Rawley, warned
of an outbreak of water-borne diseases.

James Rawley: "We have essential services — water, sanitation and
electricity — that are hardly functioning at all. We have the
recipe here for a health disaster, and we are beginning, the health
professionals, talking about diseases that we have not seen in the Gaza
Strip for decades. I'm talking about typhoid, cholera and other
water-borne diseases that could well break out given the overall health
disastrous situation that we see now."