Along the Mediterranean coast, a sixty-mile algae bloom has made visible what politics long obscured: the destruction of Gaza's water and sanitation infrastructure does not stay within Gaza's borders. Untreated sewage, flowing at forty-five thousand cubic metres a day into the sea, has crippled five of Israel's six major desalination plants, leaving both populations — one under bombardment, one under water restrictions — bound to the same environmental consequence. The crisis asks an ancient question in a modern form: when the damage we inflict on others returns to us through the water we drin
Israel's water crisis traced to Gaza infrastructure destruction, sewage pollution
Gaza residents face severe water contamination, recurring diarrhea and skin infections in children, rat infestations, and sewage flooding residential areas; hepatitis A cases increasing.