Children Navigate
Sewage in the Streets of Al Sabra, Eastern Gaza City
Children Navigate Sewage in the Streets of Al Sabra, Eastern
Gaza City
Gaza faces humanitarian crisis over sewage flow
If you think Gaza
smelled bad before..get a whiff of this:
Raw sewage floods Gaza City neighborhood and 13 more sewage stations are
close to overflowing.
Raw sewage has flooded streets in a
southern neighborhood of Gaza City in recent days, threatening a health
disaster, writes the New York Times. The reason: cheap diesel
fuel can no longer be smuggled in from Egypt because
Egypt's army has shut down the smuggling tunnels that connected Gaza with
Sinai.
The Hamas government
shut down Gaza’s lone power plant on November 1 causing a pump station to flood. Three more sewage
stations in Gaza City and 10 others elsewhere in Gaza are close to overflowing,
sanitation officials said, and 3.5 million cubic feet of raw sewage is seeping
into the Mediterranean Sea daily. "The sanitation department may soon no
longer be able to pump drinking water to Gaza homes," writes the Times.
Hamas has refused to import
Israeli diesel because of taxes imposed by the Ramallah-based Palestinian
Authority, which is led by rival terror organization Fatah.
Gaza's residents now face daily power
failures of 12 or even 18 hours. "Businesses have cut back
production, hospitals are rationing electricity to keep dialysis and
cardiac support systems running…" all because
of Egypt's cutting off smuggling, and Hamas' refusal to pay Ramallah taxes.
The number
of trucks bringing goods, including fuel, into Gaza from Israel has
actually increased 18 percent since the
ouster in July of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, while the number of Gazans
allowed to leave through Israel’s Erez crossing is up nearly 30 percent since
July. Exits through Egypt’s Rafah crossing in October, however, were a third of
what they had been in January.
And yet, in reporting on the situation in
Gaza, Iran's PressTV succeeded in blaming Israel anyway (see
video below).
During Morsi's year long presidency, Gaza
received 30 megawatts directly from Egypt and enough diesel via the tunnels to
provide 85 megawatts through its power plant. Gaza
is run by Hamas, which is connected to Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood. Besides
cracking down on the smuggling tunnels, Egypt has been fighting Islamist
terrorists in the Sinai, some of whom came from
Gaza.
Editorial Footnote:
I was actually under the
impression that Gaza already was a sewage plant on the outskirts of Israel.
On a positive note, I would say the property value should actually
increase as a result of this situation. After all, they do have ocean
front property now. Well, I guess the occupiers now have the option to go
back home by boat. Perhaps they should construct an arc.
Before all of this
is over with, mark my word....the international media will blame this on the
Israelis. And why? Well, it's always the fault of the Jews.
2 comments:
Is this a Khazar Jew support site or what? What is this article doing here? I want a straight answer so I make sure to never soil my eyes with this site again if this is some Israeli propaganda portal.
No, it is not so. John is publishing this so readers can inform themselves. You can do with the information what you want to. The article in question actually exposes an amazing catch 22 situation. The Egyptian psyche is exhausted and empathy for Gaza is a problem. Who and what is fuelling the conflict of the Gaza hell? All the parties involved have highly destructive and complex believe systems that occupy and dominate their sub-consciousness completely. The three nations referenced would not be on the shortlist titled "Creators of paradise" in fact in all of eternity would never even be considered for the task.
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