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Wednesday 02 Dec 2015 - 10:52 Makkah mean time-20-2-1437
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Aleppo (IINA) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that 1.4 million people still have interruptions in their water supply after an air strike on a water treatment plant in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo last Thursday, cutting supplies to some 3.5 million people, UN News Center reported.
“In Syria, the rules of war, including those meant to protect vital civilian infrastructure, continue to be broken on a daily basis. The air-strike which reportedly hit al-Khafseh water treatment plant in…Aleppo last Thursday is a particularly alarming example,” UNICEF Representative in Syria Hanaa Singer said in a statement.
She said that the water pumping operations at the facility, on which approximately 3.5 million people depend, have since been partially restored, but more than 1.4 million people in rural Aleppo continue to suffer due to interruptions in water supply.
Ms. Singer added that the al-Khafseh facility is one of the most important ones in Syria, producing an average of 18 million liters of drinking water daily and the damage of the plant has forced people to draw raw water from the Euphrates River, which is now the sole source of drinking water for four million people across Aleppo governorate.
She stressed that the international humanitarian law protects civilian infrastructure and the right of civilians to access services.
The UN children's agency renews appeals to all parties to the conflict to end all attacks on water facilities, treatment systems, pipelines, infrastructure and personnel who repair water supply installations, the statement said.
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