“我没事，很幸运还可以站在这里，HALO（系统）救了我。”中国F1车手周冠宇在4日凌晨通过社交平台报平安。在3日进行的2022年F1大奖赛英国站中，周冠宇在起步后进入第一个弯角时遭遇严重车祸，他的赛车被侧后方拉塞尔驾驶的赛车撞击后飞离赛道。事故发生后，拉塞尔第一时间下车观察周冠宇的情况，作为F1车手协会（GPDA）理事的他表示：“我想去看看周（冠宇）是否需要帮助。 An already precarious situation regarding food and water supplies for the residents of Gaza has exacerbated into a humanitarian crisis due to the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, experts told ABC News.The horrors civilians are facing as a result of fighting between Hamas, a terrorist organization that is based in Gaza, and Israel extend far beyond the immediate bloodshed.Days after Hamas launched a surprise terrorist attack on Israel, experts on war and food insecurity are concerned that the fighting will lead to widespread suffering for civilians, especially those living in the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated regions in the world.As the fighting continues and borders remain closed, residents in Gaza are expected to run out of food, potable water and essential supplies in a matter of weeks, Shada Moghraby, spokesperson for the World Food Programme's New York office, told ABC News.This is why food and water will be so scarce in the region going forward, according to the experts:
Gaza was facing a food security, water crisis before the most recent conflict began
There was already a humanitarian crisis brewing in the Gaza Strip before the fighting commenced.With about 2.4 million people packed into just 140 square miles, residents living in the Gaza Strip, wedged between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea, were experiencing threats to their food and water supply even before Hamas' surprise terrorist attack on Israel led to war.Thousands of years of conflict in the region has also degraded the land, leaving "reverberating environmental effects" and making it nearly impossible for Gaza to produce its own food supply, Doug Weir, research and policy director of The Conflict and Environment Observatory, told ABC News. The recurring periods of violence have led to high levels of disruption to infrastructure, particularly water and sanitation, as well as power plants, Weir said."You have this highly degraded strip of land trying to sustain a very high, very dense population," he said. "That's kind of the situation that population has been living in, to this day."There is no surface water -- lakes or rivers -- to draw from in the region, David Gampe, a geographer and climate scientist at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, told ABC News. The only resource to extract water from is the groundwater, Gampe said.Therefore, the aquifer supplying water to the territory is over-extracted. Only about 4% of the water extracted from the aquifer is actually potable, Weir said.The lack of an adequate supply of clean water has been the focus of the argument on the actual habitability of Gaza for years, Weir said. Nearly all of the drinking water in the territory is bottled, Gampe said.About 80% of the population in Gaza was in need of humanitarian aid before the bombings began days ago, Samer Abdeljaber, regional director for the World Food Programme, told ABC News."The situation was already dire. and now these escalations make things really, very difficult on those people who are already suffering from food insecurity," Moghraby said.The economic consequences of the constant conflict have also taken a toll on the region, making it difficult for it to invest in advancements in infrastructure, Moghraby said.
Borders are now even more restricted
The vast majority of the food supply is "highly dependent" on imports, Weir said. This is making the blockade around the territory even more injurious for the people stuck inside.Earlier this week, Israel stopped entry of food, water, fuel and medicine into Gaza. The sole remaining access from Egypt was shut down on Tuesday.There is barely any power in Gaza, as its sole power plant has run out of fuel as a result of the blockade, the Gaza Ministry of Energy said on Wednesday.As soon as the power is switched off, infrastructure -- including water treatment and transit -- can't work effectively, Weir said.In 2020, the U.N. Environment Programme released a status report for Gaza and the West Bank, defining the consequences of the intricate political process necessary to gain access to the region.Within the borders, humanitarian aid groups are running out of food items, as are markets, Abdeljaber said, adding that the unfolding situation is "devastating at the moment."The World Food Programme is seeking a humanitarian corridor to allow supplies into Gaza, Moghraby said."We're doing everything we can to make sure that we are reaching the people who seek shelter in the U.N. designated shelters," he said.
Bombings in Gaza are making the situation even more dire
The damage to the infrastructure inside Gaza is impeding the food production and distribution networks, Moghraby said.Bakeries in Gaza have told the WFP that they are running out of fuel, electricity and wheat flour and will soon be unable to provide the organization with bread, Abdeljaber said.But the supplies of food and water are running out, and fast.There are limited stocks of food items inside Gaza, which makes the approval of a humanitarian corridor into the territory even more essential.Those who manage to get food are having to leave their homes and seek shelter from the assaults from the Israeli Defense Forces, a "very risky" endeavor, Abdeljaber said.WFP is also having difficulties in coordinating its movements to make sure that the frontline humanitarian workers remain safe. Nearly a dozen colleagues have lost their lives, Abdeljaber said.Right after the bombing in Gaza began, the World Food Programme provided 73,000 people with ready-to-eat canned food, as well as fresh bread from bakeries within Gaza, Abdeljaber said. The next day, that number jumped to 175,000 people, and on Thursday, the WFP is expected to provide meals to up to 205,000 people, Abdeljaber said.The organization is planning to scale its response to provide more than 800,000 people in Gaza and the West Bank with food, water and essential supplies like cash, Moghraby said.The WFP has experienced setbacks in funding in the past year, Moghraby said.In June, the organization was forced to suspend about 150,000 residents of Gaza from assistance due to lack of funding, Abdeljaber said. The funding typically comes from governments and the private sector, Moghraby said. However, the organization does not work with the governments represented by the de facto authorities on the ground.Before the crisis began, WFP was in need of about $32 million in additional funding to meet its goal. Now, the organization is seeking an additional $17 million just to be able to source the required amount of food for the next four weeks, Abdeljaber said.
Climate change is also threatening the region
Food insecurity and water supply issues are expected to persist in the long term, and not just because of the conflict.Climate change is intensifying existing environmental problems in the region, including increased water stress, a study published by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health last year found.The Mediterranean climate leads to wet winters and dry summers, in which there is virtually no precipitation over the hottest months of the year, said Gampe, one of the authors of the 2022 study.A rise in temperature is going to exacerbate the water supply in the region by leading to increased evaporation within the aquifer.With up to 25% less precipitation in the winter months, when the water recharge is supposed to occur, the aquifer could soon run dry of potable water, the research shows."The groundwater exploitation is already exceeding the recharge," he said.Inadequate water supplies often have cascading consequences, including indirect health effects on populations, such as an uptick in diarrhea cases in young children, Gampe said."That will severely affect health and cause a massive problem in the region," he said.。这是令人难以置信的可怕事件，我们需要考虑避免赛车被困在障碍物和金属栅栏之间的狭小空间，周冠宇被困在那里什么都做不了。F1赛事需要从这次事故中吸取教训。
二 | ”英国广播公司（BBC）称，拉塞尔与皮埃尔·加斯利首先发生碰撞，此后，前者驾驶的赛车以每小时200英里的速度撞上周冠宇，中国车手的赛车在倒扣情况下高速撞击到场边围栏，并冲向看台。英国《卫报》称，在这一过程中，HALO系统保护了车手的头部，在本次事故中被波及的威廉姆斯车队车手阿尔本也确认安全。夺得本站冠军的法拉利车手卡洛斯·塞恩斯赛后表示：“车手从（撞坏的赛车）平安离开真是不可思议。这件事情表明，尽管我们有时会批评国际汽联，但你必须知道他们为车手提供了多少帮助。如果你看到F2赛事中的事故和HALO的作用就会明白，这一系统挽救了车手生命。”塞恩斯所说的事故，是此前一天进行的F2比赛中，豪格的赛车爆胎后压到路肩，随后直接起飞压在尼萨尼的赛车顶上，HALO系统让两位车手幸免于难。而在上赛季F1赛场上，在维斯塔潘与汉密尔顿的赛车碰撞中，HALO系统让汉密尔顿逃过一劫。HALO系统自2018赛季被引入F1赛场，架在车手头部上方的该装置因形状而被车迷戏称为“人字拖”。这一系统能够为车手提供充分的头部保护，避免车手不受飞行杂物的侵害。在F1官方的描述中，“HALO能够承受一辆双层巴士的重量”。不过，由于这一系统增加了7公斤重量，以及外观设计原因影响了车辆重心稳定和底盘承受力，这一变化增加了各车队的调试和研发成本。此外，由于该系统安装在座舱前方，会对赛车手视线产生一定干扰，不少车手对这一装置非常不满。格罗斯让曾对HALO坚决反对，但在2020年F1巴林站的比赛中，格罗斯让的赛车失控撞上护栏，HALO系统在赛车断为两截的情况下保住车手性命。此后格罗斯让认为这一系统是F1带来的最伟大成果。
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