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'The worst it's been': children continue to swim as raw sewage floods Gaza beach
theguardian.com ^ | July 31, 2017 | Peter Beaumont

Posted on 08/02/2017 8:33:53 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

It is high summer on Gaza City’s beach. A horse and cart patrols the shore selling brightly coloured swimming rings. A small boat is giving joy rides out to sea. Families sit on chairs while a few children play in the water.

Normally, in the midst of the school holidays, the beach would be crowded. Particularly this year, as an electricity crisis makes many homes unbearable during the heat. But these days many parents are keeping their children away.

The first hint is the smell: the sulphurous odour of raw sewage.

Where children are swimming the water is a murky brown, with a fine suspension of faecal matter visible to the naked eye. Small fish at the water’s edge, scooped out by the giggling children, are dead.

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To: American in Israel

Perhaps if Gaza would stop trying to destroy Israel, Israel would help. The real hell of it is Israel does help Gaza and they should not. They should build a wall, a mine field and a free fire zone between them and Gaza and just say, “you are own your own, when you children and husbands and wives and parents are dying of disease and injury, our border is closed. Our hospitals and very superior medical care is not to be given to you. Your children and those you love will die due to your actions and not ours.”

“Call me when you want to live with us in peace but in the meantime die in squalor, disease and violence. Your fate is of your own making and not that of Israel. We are locked and loaded and in our left hand the olive branch of peace, in our right hand is the might of Israel.”


21 posted on 08/02/2017 10:11:26 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud-man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, CONSTITUTION WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

If Gaza was friends and good neighbors with Israel instead perhaps a little Jewish know how could be applied to prevent sewage on the beaches. Pal’s have a greater problem with sewage spills in their souls in the form of hateful Islam.


22 posted on 08/03/2017 1:54:37 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I guess I should care about the people in Gaza, but I don’t...


23 posted on 08/03/2017 4:09:52 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

To be honest,
I don’t give a flying F about the mooselimb children of Gaza.
Future terrorists.


24 posted on 08/03/2017 4:11:16 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

We need slaves to pick up the trash!


25 posted on 08/03/2017 4:59:21 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: dsrtsage

Yeah.....me too. Who cares?


26 posted on 08/03/2017 5:31:32 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The cut in electricity to Gaza is really about a dispute between Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas, the Islamist outfit that runs Gaza.


27 posted on 08/03/2017 7:44:56 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

That figures. Thanks for clarifying.


28 posted on 08/03/2017 7:49:20 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: Billthedrill

Sorry, I was looking for other things. If you know what I mean.


29 posted on 08/03/2017 7:13:00 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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