We are definitely under no delusion that the present crooked-up look of Gaza with its eerie course after tons of bombings would invariably remind us of the devastating war. What seems to be carrying in a tad bit more metrical, mellowed scheme to obtaining the environmental expense of the approaching political instability that hangs around Gaza in this even new year?
Gaza had little hope that 2024 would bring much relief after 12 weeks of Israel’s war to eradicate Hamas. In Rafah on Gaza’s border with Egypt, which has become the biggest focal point for Palestinians fleeing other parts of the enclave, people were additional obsessed with endeavouring to find shelter, food and water than with reflecting on the New Year reportedly. Despite losing his young niece and nephew in an Israeli air strike, Abu Abdullah al-Agha, a middle-aged Palestinian man, whose house in Khan Younis was destroyed, said, “In 2024 I wish to go back to the wreckage of my home, pitch a tent and live there.”
It was reportedly here that above 25,000 tonnes of munitions were calculatedly and deliberately dropped on the devastated city within the first few critical weeks of the ongoing confrontation. It, according to the calculated configuration, amounted to the undeniably conceivable annual greenhouse gas emissions produced by practically as many as 5,000 passenger vehicles.
Nada Majdalani, Director of EcoPeace Middle East, has said that decaying bodies and contaminated water supplies currently amount to a ticking time bomb that may be causing a forthright spread of deadly, toxic diseases, including cholera.
If we go about the aggregate shutdown of wastewater treatment plants in Gaza last October, it is presently propelling the very discharge of above 130,000 cubic metres of untreated sewage into the Mediterranean every day. This data was released by none other than the Norwegian Refugee Council, as BBC reported.