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Gaza Health Risk as Sewage Floods Streets as Israeli Attacks Continue

An Israeli missile strikes the Gazan town of Beit Hanoun, where Oxfam has reported serious sewage flooding. (Photo: Reuters)

Israel's Erez crossing into Gaza - The waste leak added to controversy over the humanitarian situation with growing international anger at Israel's refusal to accept there is a crisis.

Sewage has long been a major concern in Gaza where the antiquated pumping system is held together with a fragile network of temporary pumps and generators.

Oxfam reported the north Gazan town of Beit Hanoun was experiencing serious sewage flooding after generators that run the local pumping station ran out of diesel.

Posted in Health, Human Rights, Israel/Palestine