HAMILTON, Oct 21 (Bernama-Anadolu) -- The United Nations (UN) on Tuesday warned that displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip could face serious risks of flooding and ground collapse as winter approaches, with aid efforts hampered by funding shortfalls and supply restrictions, Anadolu Ajansi reported.
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- Dujarric said the UN and its partners had assessed five other low-lying displacement sites in Khan Younis on Monday, hosting about 750 people.
- “We also assessed a sixth site hosting a number of families on the edge of a cliff overlooking the five low-lying sites,” he said.
- Dujarric added that shelter partners reported that “the supplies currently available are only enough to partially support less than a fifth of the nearly 300,000 families in need of winter shelter assistance.”
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