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"Sometimes we wait for two hours and at the end we find out there is no water anymore," says young Gazan boy Ahmad Al Mulla as he fills two bottles of water at a mosque in Gaza City. In response to Hamas's deadly attack on 7 October, Israel has unleashed a relentless bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip that has flattened neighbourhoods, leaving survivors with dwindling supplies of food, water and fuel.
Thousands of protesters in Isfahan in central Iran have voiced their anger after the city’s lifeblood river dried up due to drought and diversion.
Two thirds of the fruit that Americans consume and 80 percent of almonds eaten around the world are grown in the US state of California. But the area is seeing increasingly dry seasons. Many farmers are now being forced to fell almond, peach and apricot due to drought, but the problem is at least partially manmade. Intensive cultivation is prompting farmers to dig deeper and deeper wells, soaking up more and more moisture from the already parched soil. Our France 2 colleagues report, with FRANCE 24's Olivia Bizot and Valérie Dekimpe.
Bolivians queue in their thousands throughout La Paz, trying to buy chicken and natural gas as they face a shortage of basic goods generated by the country’s political instability.
With monsoon rains failing for two consecutive years, a quarter of India's population is now affected by a severe drought. The western state of Maharashtra is one of the worst hit, with rural areas now dependent on the water that's being brought in by train. But other remote parts remain cut off from this crucial lifeline and some desperate farmers have already taken their own lives. FRANCE 24's team in India reports.
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