Gaza's ticking sewage bomb - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Shlomi Eldar

Shlomi Eldar

Jun 16, 2017

A boy looks at Palestinians as they ride a horse cart on a street flooded with sewage water from a sewage treatment facility in Gaza City November 14, 2013. Gaza municipality said they could not operate the sewage treatment facility due to shortages in fuel and power. Gaza's lone power plant shut its generators on November 1, 2013 due to a fuel shortage, a move that will likely increase already long blackout hours in the impoverished coastal territory run by the Islamist Hamas group. Power is provided to di — A boy looks at Palestinians as they ride a horse cart on a street flooded with sewage water from a sewage treatment facility in Gaza City, Gaza, Nov. 14, 2013. — REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

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