{"id":317758,"date":"2026-04-06T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=317758"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:01:17","slug":"un-restores-clean-water-after-attack-damages-critical-infrastructure-ocha","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/un-restores-clean-water-after-attack-damages-critical-infrastructure-ocha\/","title":{"rendered":"UN restores clean water after attack damages critical infrastructure &#8211; OCHA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>6 April 2026<\/p>\n<p>OCHA reports that UNICEF and its partners have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unicef-restores-water-access-for-tens-of-thousands-of-children-in-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">restored<\/a>\u00a0access to clean water in the south of the Gaza Strip after an airstrike on March 25th. This attack curbed output at the Southern Gaza Seawater Desalination Plant to less than 20 per cent of its capacity.<\/p>\n<p>OCHA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ochaopt.org%2Fcontent%2Fhumanitarian-situation-report-2-april-2026%23%3A~%3Atext%3DMost%2520recently%252C%2520damage%2520to%2520the%2520electricity%2520line%2520serving%2520desalination%2520in%2520the%2520south%2520sharply%2520reduced%2520the%2520availability%2520of%2520drinking%2520water%2520for%2520an%2520estimated%2520500%252C000%2520people&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ckindra%40un.org%7Ce4e5a77c16504309957d08de93fe7d5e%7C0f9e35db544f4f60bdcc5ea416e6dc70%7C0%7C0%7C639110918437935250%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=afYUPSCezQ3u%2Frb%2F1LMOQxkeueSTvospBPv64QJ8xCQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a>\u00a0that half a million people\u00a0in Deir al Balah and the northern Mawasi area of Khan Younis couldn\u2019t fully access drinking water as a result, despite UN-backed efforts to deliver clean water by truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 6 April 2026 OCHA reports that UNICEF and its partners have\u00a0restored\u00a0access to clean water in the south of the Gaza Strip after an airstrike on March 25th. This attack curbed output at the Southern Gaza Seawater Desalination Plant to less than 20 per cent of its capacity. OCHA\u00a0says\u00a0that half a million people\u00a0in Deir al <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/un-restores-clean-water-after-attack-damages-critical-infrastructure-ocha\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2477],"document-source":[2169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2005,2273],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-317758","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-news-item","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-water","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317778,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317758\/revisions\/317778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=317758"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=317758"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=317758"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=317758"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=317758"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=317758"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=317758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}