Blowback: The sewage intifada of Gaza

Is it possible for a besieged society to drown in its own sewage? Yes, but there was very little publicity when five residents of the Gaza Strip drowned in raw sewage when a sewage dam collapsed in 2005. Likewise, few people are aware of Gaza's critical ongoing sewage crisis, compounded by the closure of tunnels through which cheap diesel fuel was smuggled, enabling the running of the sewage treatment plants. Yet things are now becoming untenable for Israel as well, and for this reason alone change may come to a suffering people.