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Source: http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/05/24/gazapollution.html
Gaza Sewage Crisis Threatens Israel's Shores
[Atlanta Journal-Constitution] Robert W. Gee - An expanding sewage crisis in Gaza threatens Israel's shores. Israel claims that Gaza receives ample fuel for humanitarian needs, including the operation of sewage treatment plants, but that Hamas hordes fuel for its own use. As a result, Palestinian sewage treatment facilities are dumping raw and semi-treated sewage into the Mediterranean Sea, where the current takes it north. The director of the Ashkelon Desalination Plant, which is 3 miles north of Gaza and produces 13 percent of Israel's domestic consumer demand, confirmed that seawater processed by the plant is polluted by sewage from Gaza.