Sewage overflows Gaza streets after daylight electricity failure

Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Marian Houk

Today, sewage flooded the streets in Gaza due to an electricity failure — due to a shortage of industrial diesel fuel to run Gaza’s only power plant — due to Israeli military-imposed fuel cuts — to give force to an Israeli government proclamation that Gaza is “hostile territory” or an “enemy entity” …

Photo by Ismail Zaydah for Reuters

Is this any way to run an occupation?Photo by Ismail Zaydah

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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions

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