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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Shola Lawal

How Israel’s flooding of Gaza’s tunnels will impact freshwater supply

Displaced Palestinian families queue to fill plastic jugs from a water tank in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 28, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas [AP]

Israel confirmed this week that its troops are pumping seawater into a network of tunnels in Gaza, a method environmentalists say could violate international law and cause dire, long-term consequences in the besieged Palestinian enclave.

Media reports have for weeks speculated that the pumping was under way, though Israeli and US officials, including President Joe Biden, did not confirm them when questioned.

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