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I'll bet you could see that coming, couldn't you?
And in any case, step back for a moment and consider: the Hamas regime in Gaza has made no secret of its intention to destroy Israel. In response, the UN expects Israel to supply Gaza with electricity, uninterrupted, no questions asked. Did the League of Nations scold Poland for not supplying electricity to Nazi Germany?
The Israelis, on the other hand, are actually doing it, and getting no credit for doing so.
"UN: Gaza is dumping sewage into the sea," by Ehud Zion Waldoks for the Jerusalem Post (thanks to Ruth King):
Gaza's water authority has dumped 60 million liters of partially treated and untreated sewage into the Mediterranean Sea since January 24, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a report released on Wednesday."The sewage discharge is contaminating Gaza seawater and posing health risks for bathers and consumers of seafood. The sewage flows northward to Israeli coasts, including near the Ashkelon desalination plant. Urgent studies are needed to examine the extent of the impact," the report reads.
The report's authors blamed Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip for the Gazans' inability to treat the sewage.
"This sewage cannot be treated due to the lack of a steady electricity supply within the Gaza Strip, Israel's restrictions on fuel imports and prohibitions on the import of materials and necessary spare parts," according to the report.
The UN said Gaza's water authority, the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility, required 14 days of uninterrupted electricity to treat the sewage. The utility provides more than 130 million cubic meters of water per year, according to the report, 80 percent of which ends up as sewage. Moreover, because of the restrictions on imports and exports into and out of the Strip, spare parts needed to repair the sewage treatment plants had not been allowed in.
But a security source familiar with the situation told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that the vast majority of Gaza's electrical needs were being met by Israel and Egypt.
"Gaza is receiving 141 megawatts a day out of [its normal requirements of] 200 megawatts at this time from Israel and Egypt," the source said.
He also said Hamas should be dealing with the issue. "Hamas is in charge there now and they should find a solution to the problem," he told the Post.
Israel Water Authority spokesman Uri Schor said the problem was not new and that Israel was doing all it could to help Gaza process its sewage.
"The Palestinians have been pumping partially treated or untreated sewage water into the sea for years, and not just since the beginning of this year. The State of Israel assists in various ways to the pumping and water distribution and to the continued operation of the sewage treatment plants. That assistance includes approval to transfer most of equipment the Palestinian Authority has requested - the rest is in the process of being verified - and all the diesel fuel necessary to run the plants," Schor said.
These plants had not been affected by any cutbacks to electricity, he said.
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"Israel is very much assisting in the approval, funding [$45m.] and in executing a large project to deal with northern Gaza's sewage, despite the continuing situation," he said, "Likewise, the construction of a large treatment plant in central Gaza has also been approved, and Israel is willing to help build two more plants in the southern region of the Strip."...
Posted by Robert at May 2, 2008 8:27 AM
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Isn't it strange that the Egyptians, who control their border with Gaza much more closely than the Israelis do, never come in for any share in the blame for Gaza's problems?
Posted by: ebonystone![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/nav-commenters.gif)
at May 2, 2008 8:54 AM
Robert asks,
I'll bet you could see that coming, couldn't you?
I had trouble seeing it, but no problem at all smelling it coming.
Posted by: Aiken Bryce at May 2, 2008 8:55 AM
he sewage flows northward to Israeli coasts, including near the Ashkelon desalination plant.
and there is your answer it not only gives Hamas a propaganda weapon but it also gives them another weapon to use against the Jewish people with out it being obvious that it is a weapon and part of the ongoing jihad
at May 2, 2008 10:32 AM
When will Allah clean up this mess?
Gaza is an Islamic Paradise, isn't it? C'mon, God of Islam, throw a few miracles at it! What happened to all that jizya that we sent them?
Posted by: tanstaafl at May 2, 2008 10:32 AM
HAMAS spews more filth into the minds of Gazan children than it dumps in the sea.
Posted by: John C at May 2, 2008 12:19 PM
Royal flush
Posted by: MP at May 2, 2008 12:37 PM
Algore, where are you?
How about all the green weenies?
Your favorite people are polluters.
at May 2, 2008 12:41 PM
Google Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nayyan....
find the pictures of his personal home.
Why can't moslems supply the "palestinians" with all their needs?
at May 2, 2008 12:48 PM
I guess the one thing you can say is that Gaza is not full of Shite. We know what they are full of. I say plug up the veins. Maybe the surrounding countries can pile their wastes into Gaza.
Posted by: lonewolf at May 2, 2008 2:39 PM
plug up their pipes (Sorry)
at May 2, 2008 2:39 PM
Isn't this the same group of islamic yahoos that beat and stabbed that endangered giant sea tortoise to death not long ago?
Now they are dumping their unprocessed sewage into the same sea.
Where are all the leftist ecotreehuggers when you need them?
Oh, thats right, they are partying with all the feminists who have been silent about Moslem honor killings, pedophilic marriages, FGM, etc.
Posted by: StephenDvd at May 2, 2008 3:29 PM
"Israel is very much assisting in the approval, funding [$45m.] and in executing a large project to deal with northern Gaza's sewage, despite the continuing situation," he said, "Likewise, the construction of a large treatment plant in central Gaza has also been approved, and Israel is willing to help build two more plants in the southern region of the Strip."...
The fools
at May 2, 2008 4:14 PM
Can someone help me out here? Do Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have to 'pay' for their electricity and water? I hear the bit about being heavily subsidised from Europe and N.America (and even Israel) but how does the system work in practice? Do utility companies meter then send out quarterly bills to the householder or is it a free for all where every householder with a set of jump leads and basic plumbing apparatus so to speak, just tap the grid and help themselves?
This is a genuine question from a naive hardworking consumer of the West.
at May 2, 2008 4:38 PM
""Israel is very much assisting in the approval, funding [$45m.] and in executing a large project to deal with northern Gaza's sewage, despite the continuing situation," he said, "Likewise, the construction of a large treatment plant in central Gaza has also been approved, and Israel is willing to help build two more plants in the southern region of the Strip."...
The fools
Posted by: Ian "
Why doesn't Syria, Egypt, IRan, Qatar, UAR, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Sudan, or Saudia Arabia build an essential facility such as a sewage treatment plant for Muslims?...they can't, because they are too busy building Mosques and bombs.
Posted by: pulsar182 at May 2, 2008 6:35 PM
The Israelis need to give them an ultimatum. Either they clean up their act or the IDF goes in and they obliterate this sewage plant.
Let them drown in it instead of allowing them to take the ocean hostage to their jihadshyte.
Wherever islam goes it lays the earth to waste.
GOD BLESS ENGLAND FOR GETTING RID OF THE TRAITOR RED KEN!!
Posted by: Ummah Gummah at May 2, 2008 8:10 PM
"obliterate this sewage plant."
...heck, just don't pay for it. tell them to get some Muslim money.
at May 2, 2008 10:05 PM
You realize, of course, that the Gaza Muslims, as high as kites on the insane sense of entitlement that Islam teaches, and also too fatalistic to get up and do anything for themselves, think it perfectly obvious and natural and right that Jews should take care of their [the Muslims'] sh*t?
After all - cleaning public latrines, along with other dirty and disgusting chores, the more humiliating and horrible the better, - was traditionally the job for the despised and mistreated Jewish dhimmis in many, many a Muslim land, during the glory days of the Empire of Islam.
And the UN squeals and squawks about the sufferings of the Pooor Palestinians [tm], while studiously ignoring the fact that, not so long ago, a whole lot of the PPs nearly got drowned because instead of using piping to fix their sewage system they used said piping to make...wait for it...BOMBS. And did other stupid stuff.
Which is WHY Israel now refuses to let certain types of materials into the jihad fortress and arsenal and armed camp which is Gaza.
And hasn't the UN got it through its thick skull that Hamas is DELIBERATELY diverting fuel and other essentials, so as to MANUFACTURE a 'humanitarian crisis'? If Hamas hadn't been busy sequestering fuel and other supplies instead of keeping them flowing, probably this sewage plant would be working fine.
Win-win. Oh noes we don't have any power for our sewage plant, oh noes we are SUFFERING!! POOR little us! (And this means we have the perfect excuse to dump all our sewage in the sea where we know the currents will take it north to poison all those nasty JOOZ we hate so much). Is there no-one out there in the mainstream media, no journalist, no diplomat, who can see the way their nasty little minds work?
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at May 3, 2008 2:26 AM
They wanted Gaza so bad, they got it but can't take care of it. Ironic, they need the help of Israel, while the Muslim countries, don't give them help with the problem.
Figure it out yourself, soldiers of Islam.
Have a nice swim!!!
at May 3, 2008 4:13 AM
Palestine is acutally Southern Syria..Palestine is where Syria dumps all its rejects..
Posted by: pulsar182 at May 3, 2008 9:25 AM
Following my comment on May 2 2008 4:38 PM. I'm still none the wiser.
Posted by: western infidel at May 3, 2008 5:59 PM
ebonystone, one of Israel's problems is that over the years, Egypt has allowed Gaza Arabs to build tunnels under the border and smuggle all kings of things in and out of Gaza. Going in were weapons, rockets, missiles, consumer goods, terrorists coming in after training in Syria or Iran, etc. Going out were terrorists going for training, money to pay for things, wanted fugitives, etc. Egypt allowed this to go on for years. Now, they may be rethinking the situation as the rulers in Egypt may sense that the Hamas ruling in Gaza is a threat to them too.
Posted by: Eliyahu at May 5, 2008 12:37 PM
ebonystone, one of Israel's problems is that over the years, Egypt has allowed Gaza Arabs to build tunnels under the border and smuggle all kinds of things in and out of Gaza. Going in were weapons, rockets, missiles, consumer goods, terrorists coming in after training in Syria or Iran, etc. Going out were terrorists going for training, money to pay for things, wanted fugitives, etc. Egypt allowed this to go on for years. Now, they may be rethinking the situation as the rulers in Egypt may sense that the Hamas ruling in Gaza is a threat to them too.
Posted by: Eliyahu at May 5, 2008 12:40 PM
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