{"id":319306,"date":"2026-06-23T13:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=319306"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:07:31","slug":"gaza-environmental-services-are-not-optional-unrwa-works-every-day-to-reduce-risks-of-disease","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/gaza-environmental-services-are-not-optional-unrwa-works-every-day-to-reduce-risks-of-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza: Environmental services are not optional. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA works every day to reduce risks of disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>23 June 2026<\/p>\n<p>As piles of rubbish continue to mount in the Gaza Strip with landfills remaining \u2018off limits\u2019 behind the Israeli lines, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA teams do their utmost to collect waste, improve sanitation and reduce public health risks each and every day.<\/p>\n<p>This work helps protect the health and dignity of displaced families and supports safer living conditions in and around emergency shelters.<\/p>\n<p>Despite immense challenges, these essential services continue.<\/p>\n<p>Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA works and we would kindly ask that you support us, every <a href=\"https:\/\/donate.unrwa.org\/int\/en\/general\">donation<\/a> counts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Gaza: Environmental services are not optional. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA works every day to reduce risks of disease.\" width=\"1320\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qrOD-p5aNcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 23 June 2026 As piles of rubbish continue to mount in the Gaza Strip with landfills remaining \u2018off limits\u2019 behind the Israeli lines, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA teams do their utmost to collect waste, improve sanitation and reduce public health risks each and every day. This work helps protect the health and dignity of displaced families and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/gaza-environmental-services-are-not-optional-unrwa-works-every-day-to-reduce-risks-of-disease\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2377,2805],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2005,2533,5200,2349,1745,6891],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-319306","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-multimedia","document-category-video","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-health","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-living-conditions","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","document-subject-unrwa","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/319306","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/319306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319309,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/319306\/revisions\/319309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=319306"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=319306"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=319306"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=319306"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=319306"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=319306"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=319306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}