Sewage water is pictured in Gaza City, August 12, 2024. With limited access to water and sanitation, communicable diseases and skin infections continue to rage across Gaza, according to an update released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs late July. Overcrowding of displaced people in areas that lack water, hygiene and a sewage system has already led to the spread of diseases, including skin diseases among children, it added. TO GO WITH “Feature: Children in Gaza suffer from skin disease amid lack of water, medicine”. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Mohammed Abu Al-Qumsan, whose wife Jumann, and newborn twins Asser and Ayssel were killed in an Israeli strike while he was bringing the twins' birth certificates, according to medics, reacts as he holds the certificates, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 13, 2024. (Photo by Abdullah Al-Attar/Reuters)





Three-month-old baby Rim is the sole survivor after an Israeli military attack on the home of the Abu Hiyye family in Khan Yunis, Gaza on August 15, 2024. Orphaned by the strike, Rim has been taken in by her aunt, her uncle's wife, as she faces life without her parents. (Photo by Mahmoud Bassam/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A displaced Palestinian woman and a child shelter in a cemetery, as Gaza health ministry announced that death toll has surpassed 40,000, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on August 15, 2024. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





A Palestinian girl carries her cat as she evacuates a school that had been her shelter, in eastern Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Friday, August 16, 2024, after the Israeli military dropped leaflets asking civilians to evacuate from the area, saying forces plan to respond to rocket fire that targeted Israel. (Photo by Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo)





A child peeks out from the window of a car as Palestinians flee with their belongings Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 16, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas militant group. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP Photo)





Displaced Palestinians make their way as they flee Maghazi refugee camp following an Israeli evacuation order, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in the central Gaza Strip on August 17, 2024. (Photo by Ramadan Abed/Reuters)





Relatives of Palestinians, who killed in Israeli attack, mourn after their bodies were brought to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for burial in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on August 18, 2024. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Smoke and flames rise following an Israeli strike on a residential building, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, in this screen grab taken from a video on August 18, 2024. (Photo by Reuters TV)





Palestinian Abu Shamale family, whose house was destroyed after an Israeli attack on the Sheikh Zayed Towers, tries to earn a living by making dessert from stale bread on wood fire in Jabalia Refugee Camp, Deir Al Balah, Gaza on August 19, 2024. (Photo by Mahmoud ssa/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Palestinians walk in an area damaged during the Israeli offensive, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on August 20, 2024. (Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters)





Palestinians displaced by the war between Israel and Hamas, take refuge in a tented settlement along the Mediterranean Sea shore, west of Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, August 20, 2024. (Photo by Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo)





Displaced Palestinians gather for food distribution in Deir al Balah, central Gaza Strip, Friday, August 23, 2024. (Photo by Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo)





A Palestinian child walks toward a water distribution point in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on August 25, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP Photo)





A Palestinian man walks near an apartment hit in an Israeli strike, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Ayman Al Hassi/Reuters)





A child eats as Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, near the ruins of houses destroyed during the Israeli offensive, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Mahmoud Issa/Reuters)





A Palestinian youth pulls salvaged items in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 27, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP Photo)





A Palestinian boy walks at the site of an Israeli drone strike in Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on August 27, 2024. (Photo by Mohammed Torokman/Reuters)





Mourners react during the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 27, 2024. (Photo by Ramadan Abed/Reuters)





A view of the massive devastation left behind after the withdrawal of the Israeli army from the eastern part of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza City, Gaza on August 29, 2024. Many buildings in the area were completely destroyed or heavily damaged due to Israeli attacks, and the infrastructure was severely damaged. (Photo by Anas Zeyad Fteha/Anadolu via Getty Images)