Hamas in Deep Poop Now!

[Mephisto]

As the bumper-sticker says; "Stuff Happens" and it definitely happened in Gaza recently.

Three die in Gaza sewage flood

POSTED: 8:05 a.m. EDT, March 27, 2007

UMM NASER, Gaza (AP) -- An earth embankment around a cesspool suddenly collapsed Tuesday, spewing a river of sewage and mud that killed three people and forced residents to flee from the village of Umm Naser in northern Gaza, officials said.

A local official blamed shoddy infrastructure in Umm Naser, a town of 3,000, for the disaster.

A 70-year-old woman, 4-year-old boy and a man died in the sudden flood, and 25 people were injured, said Dr. Muawiya Hassanin of the Palestinian Health Ministry. At least 25 houses were completely submerged.

Fadel Kawash, head of the Palestinian Water Authority, said that the level of sewage in the pool had increased over the past few days, creeping up the earth embankments around the pool until one collapsed, "causing the sewage to pour toward the village."

Ziad Abu Farya, head of the village council, described the scene as "our tsunami."

Rescue crews and gunmen from the militant Muslim group Hamas rushed to the area to search for people feared buried under the slide of sewage and mud.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/27/gaza.sewage.ap/index.html

I guess the old adage, "You can't stir the ***** without getting some on you," holds true in this case. Too bad people had to die.

 

[steverino]

Did any American protesters die? I'm thinking of writing a play and need a good topic.

 

[HarryKeogh]

Too bad people had to die.

Yeah, that stinks.

 

[Darth Rotor]

Rescue crews and gunmen from the militant Muslim group Hamas rushed to the area to search for people feared buried under the slide of sewage and mud.

The gunmen then proceeded to shoot the sh!+.

DR

 

[Ralph]

Hopefully it won't take too long to figure out how to blame this on the Jews & the US so they can get started fixing the sewage plant.

 

[webfusion]

Hopefully it won't take too long to figure out how to blame this on the Jews & the US so they can get started fixing the sewage plant.

Done.

1. BLAME: Sweden and EU had started to finance construction of a sewage and water treatment system for gaza. The IDF immediately responded by stopping the transfer of the materials when the shipping of metal pipes for the system commenced, as the Israelis claimed that they're used for quassam rockets, instead of sewage construction.

2. OFFER TO FIX: Defense Minister Amir Peretz instructed the Gaza Liason Administration to offer any assistance necessary to the Palestinians. Sources at the administration said that they had been in touch with their Palestinian counterparts and offered medical aid, as well as the raw materials needed to fix the wastewater wall that caved in.


Israel's Mekorot National Water Company is set to give humanitarian assistance to the village of Um Nassr following Tuesday's huge sewage disaster, at the instruction of National Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. Mekorot workers were to help pump the sewage using a 700-meter hose and pumping equipment as of Wednesday morning.

The instruction came after an appeal by the Palestinian Water Authority Director-General Fadel Kawash.