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Le Monde · 2022-08-25
Children ride in a donkey-drawn cart toward Beit Lahia beach in the far north, a popular shore said to be among the least polluted in Gaza. The text says authorities insist the sea is clean and that improved wastewater treatment is a rare success made possible by international donors repairing infrastructure, against the backdrop of a fifteen-year Israeli blockade and repeated wars and escalations that make recreation a matter of survival in the enclave.
Children ride in a donkey-drawn cart toward Beit Lahia beach in the far north, a popular shore said to be among the least polluted in Gaza. The text says authorities insist the sea is clean and that improved wastewater treatment is a rare success made possible by international donors repairing infr…
Children jostle along in a cart pulled by a donkey, heading for the beach of Beit Lahia, in the far north. A popular beach, reputed to be among the least polluted in Gaza. Men bathe there in undershirts, beneath the immense white chimneys of the Israeli power plant in Ashkelon. The boys dig, flinging armfuls of sand around them. The children of Israel were doing the same, in recent days, on the other side of the maritime no man’s land, off-limits to fishermen.
The sea is clean in Gaza. The authorities say so. Bathers pretend to believe it. The wastewater treatment plants discharge less dirty water. This rare success is to the credit of the international donors who are rehabilitating this infrastructure. It is a considerable development on this narrow coastal strip that the Israeli blockade has been methodically destroying for fifteen years. Gaza endures one war and deadly escalation after another. At the beginning of August again, three days of Israeli bombardment against Islamic Jihad — which responded with rockets — killed 49 Palestinians. In the enclave, entertainment is a matter of survival.
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