Flooding Hamas tunnels with seawater risks ‘ruining basic life in Gaza’, says expert

The Guardian ^

[Eleutheria5]

A potential plan by Israel to flood the Hamas tunnel network with seawater risks “ruining the basic conditions for life in Gaza”, one of the elements of the crime of genocide, a senior hydrologist has told the Guardian.

Environmental experts have warned the strategy – which Israel has yet to commit to – risks causing an ecological catastrophe that will leave Gaza with no drinkable water and devastate what little agriculture is possible in the 141 sq mile territory.

The UN special rapporteur for the right to water, Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, compared it to the legend of Romans’ salting of the fields of Carthage to render uninhabitable the territory of their ancient rival. The rapporteur for human rights and the environment, David Boyd, said damaging Gaza’s sole water supply would be “catastrophic” for the environment and human rights.

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The environmental consequences could be far-reaching. According to a study from the US military academy West Point, there were 1,300 tunnels stretching over 310 miles (500km) in Gaza at the start of the war in October. It has been estimated it would take 1.5m cubic metres of water to completely fill them.

Mark Zeitoun, director of the Geneva Water Hub and professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, said seawater pumped into the hundreds of kilometres of tunnels crisscrossing the porous, sandy soil of Gaza would inevitably seep into the aquifer that its 2.3 million residents rely on for about 85% of their water.

Zeitoun, who has worked as a water engineer for the UN in the occupied Palestinian territories, said the aquifer was already badly contaminated from wastewater and from seawater infiltration caused by years of overabstraction.

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[Eleutheria5]

Use fast-setting concrete instead. It would raise the water table, and bolster the porous, sandy soil of Gaza.

[Mercat]

Actually salting the earth sounds like a good plan.

[Steely Tom]

These people are so good at shifting the blame.

What did the UN do to stop the Oct. 7 attacks against civilians ?

[Ben Dover]

Oh yeah? Hamas should have thought about that before they spilt blood above ground.

[existentially_kuffer]

>>>Flooding Hamas tunnels with seawater risks ‘ruining basic life in Gaza’, says expert

Another so called expert, geezers!

[Libloather]

Basic life - strapping bombs to kids. Flood it. Add sharks.

[End Times Sentinel]

“ruining the basic conditions for life in Gaza”

Sounds good to me. The whole dump is going to be structurally unsound with all those collapsed tunnels anyway.

[ALPAPilot]

Hamas delenda est, to borrow a phrase from the elder Cato. And that’s no gay attribution!

[Zuriel]

**said the aquifer was already badly contaminated from wastewater and from seawater infiltration caused by years of overabstraction.**

Well, priorities,... when buying weapons and building tunnels is more important than clean water.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Sounds like a TS card to me.

[SaxxonWoods]

I’m fine with this.

[ncfool]

Basically, Hamas should know that their actions have consequences. Israel, is it a no-win situation they have to do what is necessary to protect their citizens if that includes creating a bad situation from salting who cares. Just do it.
Hamas and the rest of the world did not care about killing Jews.
In my opinion, that’s worse. Environmental consequences. Having to dig more graves.

“The environmental consequences could be far-reaching. According to a study from the US military academy West Point, there were 1,300 tunnels stretching over 310 miles (500km) in Gaza at the start of the war in October. It has been estimated it would take 1.5m cubic metres of water to completely fill them.”

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

I thought they started flooding tunnels a month ago ??

This reports is read as they haven’t started yet

Does anyone know if they started flooding and how it’s going ?

Or do I need call my contacts Israel

[ALPAPilot]

“ruining the basic conditions for life in Gaza”,

So is that worse than giving the land to Trump to build a new sea-side spectacular golf resort? Asking for a friend.

[blackdog]

Hamas has ruined basic life in Gaza.

[PeterPrinciple]

But the tunnels didn’t cause any ecological damage. The they get a permit of world govt to dig the tunnels?

[CodeToad]

So, flooding tunnels of war ruins someone’s “life”? Sounds like a someone that needs exterminating.

[Steely Tom]

From 27 March 2007:

An earth embankment around a sewage reservoir collapsed Tuesday, spewing a river of waste and mud that killed five people and forced residents to flee from a village in the northern Gaza Strip, officials said.

A local Palestinian official blamed the disaster in Umm Naser on shoddy infrastructure, and U.N. officials said they had been warning of a catastrophe for more than two years.

Emergency workers poled between the houses on flat-bottomed boats and chickens fled their coops to perch high on power lines. The stench of sewage mixed with mud and dead animals filled the air, causing people to cover their mouths.

Ziad Abu Farya, head of the village council, described the scene as “our tsunami.”

A 2004 U.N. report warned that the sewage facility was at maximum capacity and flooding was inevitable unless a new waste treatment plant was constructed. It said the effluent lake was a breeding ground for mosquitoes and waterborne diseases, posing a serious health hazard.

[gibsonguy]

The Guardian - read no further, they are a hive a deluded woke children