The United Nations says approximately 800,000 people in Gaza don’t have regular access to clean piped water. The world body says nearly 50% of the water network was damaged in the recent fighting. Quoting Gaza’s public works and housing ministry, the U.N. ‘s office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said nearly 17,000 residential and commercial units have been damaged or destroyed. These include 769 housing and commercial units that have been rendered uninhabitable, at least 1,042 units in some 258 buildings which have been destroyed and another 14,538 units that have suffered minor damage.