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Walls and winter rains afflict Palestinian towns
2013-01-09 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Heavy winter downpours have turned some Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank into a morass of filth and flooding as an Israeli barrier blocks the waters from draining away. In Qalqilya, a town of 42,000 in the northern West Bank almost completely surrounded by the concrete wall, Khaled Kandeel and his family huddled by an open fire in a shed as trash-laden water swelled through his pear orchard. "Before the wall, the water used to drain fine, and flowed down to the sea easily. They could...
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