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Gazans living next to garbage piles – UN official

GENEVA, Switzerland — Residents of the Gaza Strip are forced to live in bombed-out buildings or camp next to giant piles of trash, a United Nations spokesman said on Friday, denouncing the 'unbearable' conditions in the besieged Palestinian territory.

Louise Wateridge of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, described the 'extremely dire' living conditions in the Gaza Strip.