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Apr 21 2009, AP

Environmental hazards in the Gaza Strip, such as sewage contamination, have intensified since Israel’s recent war on Hamas there because even basic infrastructure repairs are stalled by an ongoing border blockade of the territory, the U.N’s environment ch

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