Israel/Palestine/Gaza: Gaza Sewage Crisis, Festering in Conflict, Poisons Coast

May 3, 2016 | Fares Akram and Daniella Cheslow, Associated Press
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Each day, millions of gallons of raw sewage pour into the Gaza Strip’s Mediterranean beachfront, spewing out of a metal pipe and turning miles of once-scenic coastline into a stagnant dead zone. The sewage has damaged Gaza’s limited fresh water supplies, decimated fishing zones, and after years of neglect, is now floating northward and affecting Israel as well, where a nearby desalination plant was forced to shut down, apparently due to pollution.