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Gaza garbage strike sparks health fears in strip
2007-04-15
GAZA - A municipal workers’ strike left mounting piles of refuse in Gaza’s streets on Saturday and officials said they feared a “sanitary catastrophe” amid a continued western aid boycott of the Palestinian government. Thousands of municipal workers began a strike last week in protest at being unpaid for months by the Palestinian government.
Took a week to notice the garbage? ...
“When there is a strike, it brings us very near to a health, environmental and sanitary catastrophe,” said Gaza City’s mayor Majed Abu Ramadan. “The threat is real.”

Residents said workers had not made garbage collections for almost a week. “My children have become sick because of the bad smell and the mosquitoes,” said 50-year-old Abu Adel.
Any chance that you'll talk to your gummint 'bout being more reasonable?
Abu Ramadan said councils depended on money they collected from residents to pay their workers, but the continued financial squeeze meant people were not able to pay their bills. “This has resulted in the municipality being unable to sustain the salaries for its 1,800 employees, these employees who serve the 600,000 residents of Gaza City,” he said.

An official with the main Gaza City municipality said thousands of workers from most local councils in the strip had joined the strike.

Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad told the European Union on Wednesday the unity government needed more than $1.3 billion in international aid this year to avert a “devastating” humanitarian crisis. The EU, the Palestinians’ biggest donor, has continued to pay subsistence allowances to 150,000 families.
None of whom are garbage collectors.
Posted by:Steve White

#12  For a while there, I thought the headline said that even the garbage is going on strike in Gaza.
Posted by: WTF   2007-04-15 23:25  

#11  If the garbage collectors won't pick up your garbage, then strap on your AK-47 and take your own garbage to the dump. These people have been on the dole for so long the idea of actually doing something productive is alien (unislamic?). The Paleo problem is not unique to them. The world is full of people who produce nothing but children and think that the world owes them a good standard of living.
Posted by: RWV   2007-04-15 20:03  

#10  Then again, I can't think of anyone more deserving.

There isn't, Bobby. Despite how Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia merit our attention more, it is the Palestinians alone who top the charts as this world's most hapless collection of moron fuckwits. No one is more deserving of the suffering, mayhem, fueding and murder that they bring upon themselves. They simply cannot die quickly enough. The only way that they make a substantial contribution to this world is by killing each other. Anyone sufficiently stupid to have an iota of sympathy for these malignant psychopaths deserves to share their fate.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-04-15 18:37  

#9  Maybe they're waiting for the US Armed Forces to clean up their garbage like we do in Sadr City. After all, at root it's Bush's fault.
Posted by: KBK   2007-04-15 18:27  

#8  Youse guys are mockin' da poor Paleos! Dis cude be SERIOUS!

Then again, I can't think of anyone more deserving.
Posted by: Bobby   2007-04-15 18:01  

#7  bout time for a shutoff of electricity (electrons on strike) and water ( H20 on strike). Complete the trifecta, baby!
Posted by: Frank G   2007-04-15 16:03  

#6  Â“When there is a strike, it brings us very near to a health, environmental and sanitary catastrophe,”

The Palestinians' very existence already achieves this without the help of sewage floods or garbage strikes.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-04-15 16:01  

#5  For a second, I thought it read 'immediate sanity catastrophe'. My bad.
Posted by: Pappy   2007-04-15 15:12  

#4  Ohhh Nooo...not an "Imminent sanitary catastrophe”. Quick...get the UN on the blower!
Posted by: DepotGuy   2007-04-15 11:59  

#3  Garbage Strike? How would you know?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-04-15 11:50  

#2  you beat me to it DMFD...;-)

picturing a big shitty flood dammed up with smelly garbage...think of the opportunity

Gaza Vacations Galore,

Come see big Paleo Lake. The kids can wear bomb belts and have a BLAST while fishing for Sewer Bass!

/i can't help myself
Posted by: RD   2007-04-15 06:36  

#1  On the bright side, at least the mountains of garbage will block future sewage tsunamis.
Posted by: DMFD   2007-04-15 00:21  

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