Quantities of solid waste differ from one place to another according to the number of the population, the larger the population, the higher the quantity of solid waste, and the higher the individuals level of income, the larger the quantity of solid waste as well. An individual in israel produces 2 kilograms of solid weights per day, while an individual in the gaza strip produces. 8 to 1 kilogram of solid waste per day. There are about 650,000 People Living in gaza city, and the citys residence and visitors produce up to 700 tons of waste that need to be collected, transported and processed a daily basis. This landfill is in the northeast of batela. The quantity of solid waste produced in the city ranges between 80 to 90 tons per day. Because the population of the city is more than 85,000 people, and the average Waste Production per person is one kilogram, like other places in the gaza strip. Solid waste goes through very hard and complicated process, starting from being thrown into dumpsters and then being collected on cards, dragged by donkeys or in the fuel. The municipality can hardly provide the diesel to run its remaining trucks, so we had to initially collect garbage using animal dragged carts, as you see here. Regarding the number of animal carts used in collecting garbage in gaza city, there are about 240 of carts and each collector gathers about one ton per day. مع العامل تقوم بجمع حوالي طن في اليوم. Various reasons led to having solid waste being transported using animals, the most important of which is the wear and tear of machinery allocated to that, as the five municipalities in the gaza strip have not of been able to import any machines from outside for the last five years, and if so, they would receive them too late. Machines and of trucks for solid waste have been allowed into the gaza strip for many years by the occupation. The available machines and trucks are already suffering wear and tear, this exacerbates the situation. All available machinery for collecting and transporting garbage is worn out, and the newest trucks the municipalities have are the 1995 model. These machines and trucks are afflicted with wear and tear and need continuous maintenance. The time they operate. Is actually much less than the time they are in maintenance. We tried to purchase and import vehicles in 2006, which were 10 new trucks, 10 tractors and two bulldozers. We were able to import. Some of this machinery after lot of suffering with the Israeli Occupation, Many International organizations like the undp and the icrc and some human rights organizations intervened. After extended efforts, we succeeded in bringing 10 trucks into the gaza strip after six years of them being in ramala in the west bank. Until now, we were not successful in bringing the 10 tractors and two bulldozers. Machinery is very important element in the process. Of disposing of solid waste, without machinery, it is not possible to collect 330 tons at least in the northern governor it, and transport it to the main landfill in jaraldi. Another reason why animals are used to transport solid waste from houses to temporary landfills is the scarsity of fuel needed to run any available vehicles and machines. You see all this movement, if you came in the past 10 days, you wouldnt have seen these trucks, but fortunately, the municipality received a limited quantity of fuel to run these trucks. The available quantity of diesel will not be enough for more than 48 hours. After 48 hours, all trucks will completely stop working until we get more fuel. The occupation is the main cause of the problem. No vehicles are imported to us normally according to our needs. We have many trucks in the ports, but unfortunately for six years. We havent received any trucks. Additionally, the shortage of fuel hinders garbage collection and causes piles of garbage. The biggest problem people in the gaza strip suffer from regarding solid waste is having the temporar landfills in densely populated areas. These landfills were established in very hard circumstances. That force municipalities to set them up in this way, like in the case of municipality and this landfill was rented as a small piece of land of 10 donoms for the initial disposal and collection of solid waste here, before it is transported to the main landfill in jaraldek in the east of gaza city. However, after the second interfada broke out, and with the resulting blocking of roads leading to charl deeks landfill, this place became a temporary landfill to the northeast. After the year 2000, the Israeli Occupation forces started dividing the gaza strip into separate areas. We had no choice but to set up this. Al yarmook temporary landfill located in the center of gaza city receives large quantities of solid waste a daily basis. This landfill is surrounded by essential public amities like cultural, governmental and sports centers. Im muhammad abud. After i leave my school in the alzetun area, i go to the alkatan center. Next it is a landfill that we pass. We come to the center to enjoy ourselves, play and have fun, but before we get to the center, we smell this very nasty smell coming out of the landfill. When we get into the center, we find flies and insects everywhere. This affects our health and elderly people who visit the center. Im wondering why this landfill was located next to a Cultural Center where most visitors are students. We are in alada street, one of the most important streets in the gaza strip. In alwah street, there is center for children, a Public Library, which is the. Unicities Public Library, other public amenities around, and residence in the houses near the landfill, which is located in the middle of the street and in the middle of many different Government Centers and facilities. I say again, alcatan Cultural Center is located next to the landfill, and so is the Public Library of the gaza municipality. The tightened israeli blockade and occupation forced us to establish these stations, the largest portion of garbage trucks are worn out and out of service, the municipality didnt receive any new trucks, so we had to set up these stations for initial garbage collection, temporary landfills have dangerous impacts in the environment and health of People Living near them, that is why some of the People Living there tried to submit. Complaints to municipalities against these landfills and the harm they cause. Now you are with us in the elnata towers area in the north of the gaza strip by the borders with israel. Im sure you are disturbed by the smell while you walk with us and you are our guests. Destiny sent you here to see the very unhealthy environment we have. Here we have old people who take medication. The hurtful smell from sewer and garbage has caused about 10 days. Deaths in the area, belsom hospital in the patient suffer from severe medical conditions as a result of the smell coming out of the very close landfill. This puts the lives of patients at risk, so the hospital often refers cases to alshifa hospital in gaza. We submitted many complaints to all the municipalities, including the municipalities of baite lahhia, gaza, and baite hanon. They told us they will remove the landfill somewhere else, but as you see in smell, this didnt happen. Which is very short distance according to international standards, houses must be much further than that, however, limited land space and the lack of alternative locations are the problem, along with insects and rats which spread Infectious Diseases because of the. Is collected in this landfill a daily basis, but the problem increases when garbage is not transferred regularly. Some of the impacted people set garbage on fire to get rid of the landfills nasty smell, but the spreading fires cause Serious Health problems. Added to that is the spread of insects and diseases because of the landfill. Throughout the day, or at least throughout working hours from 8 a. M. To 4 p. M. Nobody can stand the nasty smell as well as the smoke resulting from burning garbage in the landfill. And the spread of rats, dogs and animals. There is no alternative to having these landfills because the occupation, which prevents transporting solid waste from the gathering sites of temporary landfills to the main landfills located. We hope that the situation will be better next year, crossings will be open and we will close this station and that we will collect garbage using trucks and transport it to the main landfill located to the southeast the city. If you have more time, you can come with us to visit the main landfill and see how things are going over there. We accepted the invitation from the head of the health and Environment Department in gaza municipality, mr. Abdulrahim abumbus and visited the main landfill in gaza city in jahr deak, east of the city, where solid waste is disposed by being buried without any processing. We are now of course in the main landfill located in the southeast of gaza city. This landfill is almost 300 dunoms in size. It was established in 1985. It receives one thousand tons per day from the gaza governor, which includes four municipalities, and the north gaza governorte, which we suffer from the disposal of solid waste, because the existing landfills are not healthy. I call on all organizations and people working in this field to think of a way to benefit and utilize solid waste, not only bury it in the ground. There are three main landfills in the gaza strip and they suffer from two major problems first, they are located very close to the 1948 borders, which means that the. Can be closed any time by the Israel Occupation for false security claims. The second problem is that these landfills are already full and dont have the capacity to receive more waste. There are three landfills in the gaza strip. One landfill is located in connus and alphakari area. Another landfill is in der aubala, but it is already. Totally full and has no capacity to receive more waste. The third landfill is in gaza city in jaraldec. A Strategic Plan for rehabilitating these landfills was put in place and it was agreed based a vision set by palestinian experts to rehabilitate two main landfills, which are the one in alfakari and canyunis and the one in gaza city. A Feasibility Study was prepared and plans were set by foreign and local companies. As you can see, this landfill was totally leveled and covered with layer of clay which is 1 meter thick. Today we are walking a landfill that is 15 meters high. This place was covered with layer of clay and a system will be developed for the liquids infiltrating from the garbage to be sent to special locations or pools. The project for rehabilitating the main landfill in gaza city is still continuing and defined all the post challenges and once accomplished it will have very positive environmental and Health Impacts on the city and its surroundings. Able to receive garbage for the next four or four months from now, this land fill will be five years. As you can see, there is fire in the eastern area because this area is not closed yet, gas is spreading in the air in that area and can catch on fire very easily. It will be very hard to put the fire out. However, when we set up device to collect the gas, this problem will be over and pollution will be reduced. As you see, natural gas comes out and can catch on fire with any flame or ignition. The fire will be very hard to put out. Solid waste in the gaza strip consis of plastic, paper, glass,. Steel, waste from hospitals and waste resulting from construction works, but organic waste represents more than 60 of all solid waste produced in the gaza strip. The gaza strip produces about 1,700 tons of solid waste per day. Some solid waste has very dangerous impacts on the environment. The most dangerous of solid waste is the medical waste. The ministry of health. The ministry of health has a responsibility to collect all dangerous medical waste, especially sharp tools. The ministry collects them from all hospitals and Healthcare Centers and then they are transported to be burned in the ministrys burnings locations. Unfortunately. Some pharmacies, laboratories, and private clinics do not commit to transporting this waste to the ministrys burning locations, with توصيل هذه النفيات ال الى المحارق وزاره الصحه. Most of the dangerous solid waste is usually found in the random land fills scattered around the gaza strip. نحن الان في منطقه دير البلح وبالتحديد في شاطئ. Beach, the only recreational site for people in the city. As you can see behind me, piles of solid waste are stacked near the edge of the beach. These piles resulted from the derbala municipalitys limited resources, which led people to a dispose of their garbage away from their houses. The edges look like this for 5 years. First it was 100 clean with sand and clay. To spend their free time playing here and sliding from the top to the bottom of the edge using empty plastic water bottles. Again, this edge used to be very clean, but now if they want to make it look the same again, that will be very hard to do. The edge also includes needles used by patients and empty medicine bottles thrown into it, in addition to other medical supplies used by patients. We fear that older children might be exposed to play with these things. A person using such needle is in danger of being infected with diseases, even if he gets hit with it by mistake, infection of the disease could happen. Gaza beach looks after people visited for recreation, clean and waste free. In other parts of the beach, however, some small random garbage piles are scattered, disturbing the beautiful scene and might affect fishing or deprive people from swimming in these areas. This scene we are looking at right now is for random landfill in the gaza strip. Garbage thrown this way distorts the general scene and affects fishing, recreation and everything surrounding it. We do not advise anyone to swim in these areas and tell them to move to areas more suitable for swimming with cleaner water in a healthier environment. When the waves get higher and hit the garbage piled at the edge garbage. Will be dragged into the sea, fish will leave the area, which might be polluted. As you see, we work as fisherman and barely make five to 7 a day. The most dangerous negative impact caused by the stacking and piling of solid waste in temporary, random and main landfills, is the liquids leaking from these landfills and infiltrating into the groundwater aquafers and mixing with drinking water. This poses a real danger to the environment, considering the water situation in the gaza strip, its scarcity and the high contamination levels. To accumulate the liquids leaking from organic materials and not ready to process these liquids in a correct and scientific way. When these liquids infiltrate into the aquire, they mix with the ground water and seawater. This pool was used to receive randomly leaking liquids without any networks. Pool will be established based on scientific standards to prevent infiltration these materials into the ground. How designs come from across the world to palestine to occupy a land belonging to another nation . How do they form their secret army, hagana . How do they grab lands belonging to palestinians . How did they build and expand their illegal settlements . Israels former Prime Minister goldomir answers these and more questions in this documentary. This is my land and my country. It is not only the 1948 or 1967 borders from the sea to the river. I am not ready to let go of a centimeter. Israel is here like any for by the support of the europe, by the support of the united states. Thats why they separate the land. Well, i was at the babo shams protest last week and i myself had a. Head banged against the bus by soldier, illegally on illegal stolen land and they are arresting us the palestinian, this is historical palestine. The headlines this hour, the us israely genocide in gaza is in his 134th day with the death toll nearing 29,00, mostly women and children. Amas rates that no prisoner swap deal with israel is possible without ending the aggression and sage as well as the withdraw of Occupation Forces from gaza. Aniban unveils two domestically manufactured air Defense Systems achieving another milestone in the countrys reletness pursuit to fortify its defense capabilities