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.”