DayofPal—Gaza’s Civil Defense announced on Saturday the death of seven-year-old child Atta Al-Mayy, who had fallen into a deep sewage pit in Al-Sudaniya area, north of the Gaza Strip.
The area was heavily destroyed by the Israeli army during the Gaza genocide and has been declared a disaster zone by local municipalities.
In a statement, the Civil Defense said its teams were able to recover the child’s body from the pit and transfer it to hospital after tireless efforts that lasted continuous six hours.
Earlier in the day, rescue crews had launched search and recovery operations using rudimentary tools due to a severe shortage of equipment.
Footage from the scene showed Civil Defense personnel wading through muddy water inside a debris-filled pit, relying on handheld flashlights and their own bodies to reach the depth of the well, racing against time under extremely dangerous conditions.
The incident knocked alarm amid worsening humanitarian conditions in Gaza, where widespread destruction and a lack of emergency equipment have severely hampered rescue operations following Israel’s war on the enclave.
Over the past two years, the Civil Defense has lost most of its vehicles and machinery to bombardment, forcing crews to depend on aging vehicles and basic tools that are inadequate for the scale of repeated disasters across the territory.
The war, which began on October 7, 2023 killed more than 71,000 Palestinians, injured over 171,000, and destroyed around 90 percent of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure.
The United Nations has estimated reconstruction costs at approximately $70 billion with the mamount of debris surpassed 80 million tons.
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