Posted on 12/24/2023 10:31:38 AM PST by 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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You know what else “ruins basic life”?
Murdering 1,300 innocent civilians for no reason other unreasonable, festering hatred.
Empty out Gaza and make it uninhabitable, permanently.
The only guarantee it won’t happen again.
Those Hamas and Gaza bastards have ‘ruined basic life in Israel’ for deuces says this expert. Cry me a river.
I’m not seeing a problem.
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Ten ‘experts’ and five bucks will get you a coffee drink at Starbucks.
> The UN special rapporteur for the right to water, Pedro Arrojo-Agudo… <
I wouldn’t trust anything a “rapporteur” might have to say. The title sounds unmanly.
“ruining the basic conditions for life in Gaza”
That’s kinda’ the point.
Comments BUMP!
Israel to flood the Hamas tunnel network with seawater risks “ruining the basic conditions for life in Gaza
Egypt flooded some of the Gaza tunnels with sea water a decade or so ago.
Anyway, what did the Palestinians think would happen when they built the tunnels and then launched murderous attacks? FAFO.
Just the muzzies being there ruined the whole of Gaza.
“Ruining basic life in Gaza?” THOSE days are long gone...
Gaza used to be a citrus-growing region. What happened to the orange groves? It used to have extensive green houses abandoned by the forcibly-evacuated Jews in the name of “peace”. All destroyed by looting and vandalism.
“Ruining basic life?”
Isn’t that the goal of war? You kill the enemy, that has made it plain, promising to kill all Jews and Christians.
Drown them like the rats they are.
Start the flooding!
I. Don’t. Care.
Flood the tunnels now!
F’em.
5.56mm
Cement or foam is better.
Gaza has been a problem since the Philistines. Flatten every building and flood the tunnels.
“compared it to the legend of Romans’ salting of the fields of Carthage to render uninhabitable the territory of their ancient rival.”
No such thing occurred. Salt was valuable and expensive. It was used as currency and as salary for Roman soldiers. No was in hell they had the volume to ruin farm fields.
“Salting the earth” was a ceremony where a handful was thrown out symbolically. Anyway, back to Gaza, too bad. Drown em like rats.
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