Questions have been raised over why children in Libya are choosing to drink contaminated water despite humanitarian aid being sent to the country, according to political analyst Abdulkader Assad. Up to 3,000 people have died with 10,000 missing after Mediterranean Storm Daniel triggered flash flooding across eastern Libya. “This has happened while aids and humanitarian assistance keeps coming in to Libya from all across the world and locally as well,' he told Sky News Australia. “Which raises the question, why would Derna children – survivor children drink contaminated water if there was bottled water coming to them, clean water coming to them constantly. “This of course takes us back to the complications and the obstructions that are created by the lack of coordination that is slowing down the arrival and delivery of much needed assistance to the area.”
Questions have been raised over why children in Libya are choosing to drink contaminated water despite humanitarian aid being sent to the country, according to political analyst Abdulkader Assad.
Up to 3,000 people have died with 10,000 missing after Mediterranean Storm Daniel triggered flash flooding across eastern Libya. “This has happened while aids and humanitarian assistance keeps coming in to Libya from all across the world and locally as well," he told Sky News Australia. “Which raises the question, why would Derna children – survivor children drink contaminated water if there was bottled water coming to them, clean water coming to them constantly.
“This of course takes us back to the complications and the obstructions that are created by the lack of coordination that is slowing down the arrival and delivery of much needed assistance to the area.”
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