Posted on 12/24/2023 10:31:38 AM PST by Eleutheria5
A potential plan by Israel to flood the Hamas tunnel network with seawater risks “ruining the basic conditions for life in Gaza”, one of the elements of the crime of genocide, a senior hydrologist has told the Guardian.
Environmental experts have warned the strategy – which Israel has yet to commit to – risks causing an ecological catastrophe that will leave Gaza with no drinkable water and devastate what little agriculture is possible in the 141 sq mile territory.
The UN special rapporteur for the right to water, Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, compared it to the legend of Romans’ salting of the fields of Carthage to render uninhabitable the territory of their ancient rival. The rapporteur for human rights and the environment, David Boyd, said damaging Gaza’s sole water supply would be “catastrophic” for the environment and human rights.
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The environmental consequences could be far-reaching. According to a study from the US military academy West Point, there were 1,300 tunnels stretching over 310 miles (500km) in Gaza at the start of the war in October. It has been estimated it would take 1.5m cubic metres of water to completely fill them.
Mark Zeitoun, director of the Geneva Water Hub and professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, said seawater pumped into the hundreds of kilometres of tunnels crisscrossing the porous, sandy soil of Gaza would inevitably seep into the aquifer that its 2.3 million residents rely on for about 85% of their water.
Zeitoun, who has worked as a water engineer for the UN in the occupied Palestinian territories, said the aquifer was already badly contaminated from wastewater and from seawater infiltration caused by years of overabstraction.
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Boo-Hoppin’-Hoo
OK - so...?
What? And give up attacking Jooos? Build a nation and a state of their own, with resort hotels by the beaches, and thriving farmland and a fishing and canning industry? Nah.
Something like this (very small in comparison) between the US and Mexico. In 1916, Mexican Pancho Villa and his men invaded towns in New Mexico, USA, causing mayhem, kidnapping and executing hostages. US General Pershing led a US military punitive expedition into Mexico, going more than 500 miles into Mexico, with airplanes doing exploration, and modern weaponry including trucks. Lt. George Patton led America's first motorized military action against Mexicans, killing bandits and notching his Colt Peacemaker pistols. (Posting this from historical accounts.)
Pressure was put on General Pershing to halt actions and withdraw. Despite not finding Pancho Villa.
Cry me a river! Flood them, problem solved!
Freeper BradyLS had the idea of mixing the pig blood with the salt water.
Diluted pig blood is still offensive to Mo-ham-head.
Didn't they tear out the water pipes to make rockets anyway? Were they big into agriculture? Yes and no? screw em
Salt water is just as good as salting the fields...
Zeitoun, water engineer for the UN in the occupied Palestinian territories.🤦♂️
Maybe if they fluoridated the sea water it would be Ok?
Ham Ass’s Fault!
Ham ass should have thought through the ramifications of building tunnels. If flooding out terrorists is a good military strategy, then the proximity of tunnels to critical infrastructure (the water table) is the fault of ham ass.
What basic life in Gaza could they possibly be talking about? There is none.
Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. They used the pipes donated by the international community to expand the sewer system to make rockets. The water pipes in place they left alone, as far as I know. But I wouldn’t put it past them.
To Block Gaza Tunnels, Egypt Lets Sewage Flow
“expert” aka x-spurt ... as in to expel or force out suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid ... as in, you fill in the rest of the definition ...
“From The Tunnels To The Sea”
Very interesting, thank you.
I guess ruining things is what you get in a free election where the population elects a terrorist organization to run the country and those elected officials spend most of the foreign aid money on military infrastructure like tunnels.
Unfortunately, in life you get what you vote for.
Salt the wells. Make the land uninhabitable for generations.
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