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| Sewage At The Beaches, Piles Of Garbage Mar Gaza Summer | |
| 2014-06-30 | |
[Ynet] Pollution stems from fuel shortages that have halted work at sewage treatment facilities in the Strip.
Baha al-Agha of the Gazoo Environment Quality Authority said about 100,000 cubic metres of untreated waste water are being pumped into the Gazoo shore daily. "Swimming is prohibited" signs have gone up at several beaches. But at one of Gazoo's most popular beaches, dozens of people, including children, splashed in the water over the weekend despite the posted warning. "Things are getting worse day by day in the absence of real and quick solutions," Agha told Rooters. He called on the Paleostinian unity government formed earlier this month to act immediately "before Gazoo beaches are declared a disaster area". Egypt's closure of most of the estimated 1,200 cross-border smuggling tunnels run by Islamist group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, has virtually stopped cheap Egyptian fuel coming into Gazoo. Egypt's military-backed government fear the tunnels are used to take weapons into the Sinai Peninsula, and accuses Hamas of backing the Egyptian Moslem Brüderbund. Hamas denies it helps Death Eaters in Egypt. Israel has its own blockade on Gazoo, allowing in fuel and restricted imports since Hamas took control in 2007. But the Israeli fuel costs twice as much as Egyptian imports. Garbage piling up Gazoo residents said they had little to celebrate at the start on Sunday of the Moslem month of Ramadan - traditionally a time for worship but also for family feasts in the evening at the end of a daily daytime fast. Garbage has been piling up on the streets, with some 75 percent of sanitation trucks idled by the Gazoo municipality's inability to pay high fuel prices. "Tunnels are closed, crossings are closed, there is no sea port ... and now they are telling us the beaches are closed? Wouldn't it be easier if they just let us die in peace?" asked Ali Abu Hassan, a 46-year-old taxi driver. Driving along Gazoo's coastal road, the smell of sewage is sharp and waves hitting the beach are yellowish and brown. Many in the Gazoo Strip are also feeling the pinch of a salary dispute that could test the resilience of the new unity government formed under Hamas's reconciliation pact with Western-backed President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... Some 40,000 public servants hired by Hamas since it seized the Gazoo Strip seven years ago from forces loyal to Abbas have not been paid in full for months due to a cash crunch caused by Egypt's tunnel crackdown. Hopes of receiving wages quickly under the unity government were dashed when the new administration said it must first vet the employees before paying them - a process that could take months. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 I bet Gazooo Rubble Recyclers have a busy summer ahead. Watch yer feets!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-06-30 21:45 |
| #6 I have a place booked called Gaza sous la Merde...I think its French so it must be tray elaganteh. I have the brochure here..yes, there is a very photogenic gentleman in a green helmut. And a large lady, looks like she is singing, so there must be grand theatre nearby. Oh here is looks like spelunking - kids are gonna love that. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-06-30 20:10 |
| #5 Send money! |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-06-30 11:55 |
| #4 And here I was planning to spend 4th of July weekend at the beach in Gaza looking at the girls in their bikinis and hajib robes. (It's like a Kurt Vonnegut story: "Look, that one's wearing what looks like a complete army tent; she must really be a knockout!") |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-06-30 08:04 |
| #3 There go my vacation plans! |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-06-30 06:44 |
| #2 Nothing compared to toxic waste filling Gaza. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-06-30 04:19 |
| #1 Hopes of receiving wages quickly under the unity government were dashed when the new administration said it must first vet the employees before paying them - a process that could take months. By then even the subway tokens will have disappeared. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-30 02:38 |