The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has confirmed that the accumulation of waste in the Gaza Strip is endangering people's health and lives.

UNRWA said in a post on its X platform on Friday that many are forced to live in tents amid piles of waste.

She stressed that the worsening waste crisis is exacerbating environmental and health challenges, indicating that the Palestinians' struggle to survive in harsh humanitarian conditions has become increasingly difficult.

On Thursday, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said that no humanitarian aid had entered Gaza for more than three weeks, the longest period the Strip has gone without supplies since the beginning of Israel's 18-month-long genocide.

Lazzarini stressed the need to "lift the blockade, reopen the crossings for the regular flow of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies, stop the bombing, and resume the ceasefire in Gaza."