Friday, February 22, 2013

Priceless: Egypt Floods Gaza Tunnels With Sewage

This is the feel good story for today...
So this is pretty gross. Egypt's long struggled with ways to block a series of tunnels that bring some 30 percent of all goods, including guns, into Gaza so they got creative. They're using raw sewage. Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Egyptian authorities had gone to new extremes to cut off the flow of illegal goods and "flooded" the tunnels that run under the border. It's since been revealed that this was not a flood of water, but rather human excrement — hundreds, thousands, even millions of gallons of raw sewage pumped into the same tunnels that, to quote Reuters' report, "has been a lifeline for some 1.7 million Palestinians in Gaza." Keep on reading...

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