Archive for August 13th, 2024

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13/08/2024

Gaza: Clean Water Crisis Adds to New Displacement Misery, and “Sewage Water Is All Over the Streets”: UNICEF

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Amid further evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military in Gaza, UN humanitarians delivered a fresh warning on Monday [12 August 2024] over the dire sanitary emergency there and the urgent need for a mass polio vaccination campaign in the embattled enclave. 
 
A person collects water in the midst of the ruins of Gaza.
© UNRWA | A person collects water in the midst of the ruins of Gaza.

UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund, issued a statement from Deir al-Balah in Gaza’s central area, where untreated sewage run-off formed large pools on the road next to shelters for forcibly displaced people.

“Sewage water is all over the streets,” said UNICEF spokesperson Salim Oweis, who highlighted the destruction of Gaza’s water and sanitation network, and its sewage treatment plants, since war erupted on 7 October, after Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel.

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Posted in Asia, Genocide, Market Lords, Massacre, Middle East, Migrants and Refugees, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples | 2 Comments »

13/08/2024

The Ardent Pipe Dreams of U.S. Voters

Human Wrongs Watch

By Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service*

“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”

—  Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh

Voters in the U.S.A. live in fantasy and probably always will. No matter how obvious it is that the U.S. is an oligarchy, not a democracy, the ardent pipe dreams of a new face in the White House go to their heads every four years. It can only be explained by a combination of intellectual ignorance, the acceptance of propaganda, and the embrace of illusions.

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