Sewage at the beaches, piles of garbage mar Gaza's summer

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Sewage at the beaches, piles of garbage mar Gaza's summer

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/sewage-beaches-piles-garbage-mar-gaza-summer-124831487--business.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LtJjCW9P1dMvI6ZPkhzM7w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-06-29T200937Z_2_LYNXMPEA5S07M_RTROPTP_2_PALESTINIANS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Palestinian boy buries his brother with sand as they play on a beach in the central Gaza Strip" align="left" title="Palestinian boy buries his brother with sand as they play on a beach in the central Gaza Strip" border="0" /></a>By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - When Palestinians in the Gaza Strip seek some relief from the grind of life in an enclave plagued by conflict and hardship, they usually need to look no further than their sandy beaches. The blighted shoreline adds to the grind of Gazan life so far unrelieved by the reconciliation pact which the dominant Islamist group Hamas signed with Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas. One Hamas official mooted retaking charge of the territory if the Abbas-led new government did not wade in with remedies. Baha al-Agha of the Gaza Environment Quality Authority said about 100,000 cubic metres of untreated waste water are being pumped into the sea daily.</p><br clear="all"/>

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