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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Gazans-to-burn-thousands-of-tires-at-border-548953
Israel Warns of Ecological Damage as Gazans Prepare to Burn Thousands of Tires at Border
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - Palestinians plan to engulf the Gaza border with smoke and flames from thousands of burning tires on Friday, according to a Gaza source. Videos on social media show hundreds of tires that have already been gathered. In an Arabic post on Facebook, Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the coordinator of government activities in the territories, warned, "It's the people in Gaza who will be strangled by black smoke." He warned that the smoke is carcinogenic and harmful to the respiratory and immune systems. Mordechai also wrote a letter asking the World Health Organization to intervene, saying he feared the burning tires could cause an ecological disaster by poisoning plants and animals.