A flooding river of sewage has killed three women over the age of 70 and two toddlers in a Gaza strip village. The disaster has been called a "sewage tsunami" by some media outlets.
While a "tsunami" is a natural force, the Gaza strip disaster unnatural, as one blogger notes. The residents of the flooded Umm Naser village were living amid running, exposed sewage in ramshackle tin huts, and with little access to basic facilities such as clean water.
The 70+ year old women were witnesses to the ebb and flow of history. As though the demeaning surroundings in which they lived were not insult enough to human dignity, their lives were claimed by a flood of filth. This cruel reality speaks louder than any UN human development report: it tells of the insanity of conflict and the need to pay tribute to individuals of this daily struggle, even if they do not make it to the news headlines.
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