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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Worse than blowing them up?
So? Then maybe the “Palestians” will leave Gaza and move to Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, etc.
Kinda the idea.
Boo freaking hoo!
Well they shouldn’t build tunnels , what are they hiding down there anyway
Flooding Hamas tunnels with seawater risks ‘ruining basic life in Gaza’, says expert
Use fast-setting concrete instead.
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Tough. Losers weepers.
The tunnels are miles long; the largest, a steel-lined tunnel, wide enough to accommodate vehicles, runs from the greenhouse complex just north of the Gaza border in Israel to the greenhouse complex south of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Concrete would not work, as even the smaller tunnels are multi-level. They use sponge bombs on those.
And electric eels.
new tunnel estimate is over 500 miles.
Murdering 1,300 innocent civilians
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Murder does not do justice to what they did.
One combat vet said on TV he’s seen things in Iraq and Afghan that traumatized him.
When he was about to see the 49 minute video taken by Hamas on 10/7, he thought going in it would not be a problem. Coming out he was shaken to his core, he said. Murder does not do justice to what they did.
Making gaza uninhabitable? Flood the tunnels or leave it alone the outcome is the same either way.
Let the pumping continue!!!!!
I guess flooding the tunnels with pigs blood is out of the question?
food is largely grown in Israeli-built greenhouses.
Both have been tried - sponge bombs (quick hardening foam) is used to seal the entrances on some tunnels, but sea water penetrates the whole length and, more importantly, all the levels.
sounds like a good idea to me
Not getting all tore up about this.
Hamas is free to surrender at any time
until the muslim conquest of North Africa where they used the vast goat herds to strip the vegetation, and then the muslim armies salted the fertile land, resulting in the semi-arid landscape of today.
good! sounds like a two fer!
Too bad.
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