A ban on materials required for their maintenance,
including cement, steel and pipes, left them in a state of disrepair.
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MIDEAST: Environment Emerges as a Major Casualty - 0 views
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Israeli bombs hit the already fragile sewage and water treatment systems, causing drinking water and raw sewage to mix across some of the most populated areas of Gaza.
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Tank shells hit the strip's largest wastewater plant in the Sheikh Aljeen area of Gaza City, sending sewage cascading directly into neighbourhoods, farms and into the sea.
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Countless fruit groves across the Gaza Strip are now gone, entire farms bulldozed. The remains of thousands of destroyed homes emit toxic asbestos, while dilapidated infrastructure dumps raw sewage into the Mediterranean Sea. An already deepening environmental crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip has been further compounded by the recent war.
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Gaza is a Kafkaesque situation that makes a joke out of rational geopolitical discussion.
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