(4 Feb 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 3 February 2025
1. Various of people walking alongside piles of garbage
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Saad Saleh, from Gaza City:
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"It spreads diseases among people, and itching and coughing among children. People burn it and the smoke enters our homes. It has destroyed us. For God’s sake, remove this garbage from us."
3. Piles of garbage filling the road
4. Piles of garbage, children collecting waste from the garbage
5. Various of burning garbage, man throwing garbage in fire
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rabah al-Kord, from Gaza City:
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"We burn waste to get rid of mosquitoes. When we put food, mosquitoes and flies come to it, and all of this causes diseases. We burn to clean what is around us. It is true that fire and smoke affect us, but their effect is temporary and after that we are done with waste and diseases."
7. Various of man burning garbage in the street
STORYLINE:
Amid the piles of rubble from the massive destruction of Gaza a huge amount of garbage is also adding to Palestinian woes.
With no refuse collections in the war-torn territory, people are disposing of rubbish in the streets.
People are forced to live among the piles of rubbish which attract vermin and insects.
It’s just another difficulty that Palestinians face as they return home following the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
Children were seen foraging in the litter searching for food or anything of use to their families.
"It spreads disease among people and itching and coughing among children,” said one resident, Abu Saad Saleh. “People burn it and the smoke enters our homes. It has destroyed us."
He begged for the garbage to be removed.
Much of Gaza City and the surrounding areas of north Gaza were decimated by repeated Israeli offensives against Hamas militants during 15 months of war.
While some 1 million Palestinians fled from the north to escape Israel’s bombardment and ground assaults, tens of thousands remained throughout the war.
But municipal services like garbage collection collapsed early on in the fighting, leaving nowhere to dispose of waste except the streets.
With the start of a ceasefire earlier this month, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled further south have returned to Gaza City.
But they face a host of problems: Many have nowhere to live after homes were destroyed, water is in short supply, electricity near non-existent.
The garbage further adds to their woes with the smell, the flies and the pollution as some people burn it.
On Tuesday, Rabah al-Kord burned a pile of trash in a garbage-filled lot next to his building, sending up a column of black smoke. He said he had no choice.
“When we throw it out, mosquitoes and flies come to it, and all of this causes disease,” he said. “We burn to clean what is around us.”
Produced by Wafaa Shurafa
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