news.bbc.co.uk - 10/27/2009
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Monther Shoblack, director of Gaza's Coastal Municipality Water Utility
newyorker.com - 11/2/2009
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newyorker.com —
In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt
and the Gaza Strip, there is a small crossing...
station not far from a kibbutz named Kerem Shalom. A guard tower looms over the flat, scrubby buffer zone. Gaza never extends more than seven miles wide, and the ...
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Gaza, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, and Israel
newyorker.com - 11/2/2009
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newyorker.com —
In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt
and the Gaza Strip, there is a small crossing...
station not far from a kibbutz named Kerem Shalom. A guard tower looms over the flat, scrubby buffer zone. Gaza never extends more than seven miles wide, and the ...
(more)
Lawrence Wright: What really happened during the Israeli ...
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... In addition to lack of potable water, in Gaza the aquifer is being polluted by sewage and a rising level of seawater: "Gaza's aquifer and only natural freshwater source is "in danger of collapse," the UN is warning. Engineers have long been battling to keep the densely populated strip's water and sewage system limping along. ...
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