Gaza is drowning in toxic waste

The UN’s development organization has calculated what it will take to get Gaza’s residents back on their feet once the war is over. Mountains of waste play a central role.

The waste piles up in the wake of the war. “There is hospital waste, there is asbestos, there is untreated faeces. There it is all. And the displaced, especially the children, rummage through it in the hope of finding something they might use”, says Sarah Poole from the UN Development Organisation. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Ritzau Scanpix

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Source: politiken.dk