It´s really horrible to hear everyday that thousands of people die, it is really the same whether it is because of an defective hose or because of a war for no reason!!!!!! People must not die!!!!

Nurunnisa, Vienna, Austria

Already in 2003, I worked on a report on this very treatment plant (Beit Lahia) and the threat it posed to the communities around it. Back then, children had already drowned in the seweag, the plant had already flooded homes and fields and the Palestinian Authority had desperately tried to construct another plant on the eastern side of the Gaza Strip.
Whenever the engineers arrived on that proposed site, however, a huge Israeli tank would turn to shoot at them, having killed already one. I went there myself and saw the tank and had to run myself from that area.
The report was published with the Palestinian organization "Al Mezan Center for Human Rights" in 2003, calling upon the international community to exert pressure on Israel to stop impeding the construction of the new plant and on the Palestinian Authority to take immediate measures to proect Um-Al Nasr, the Bedouin community most severely affected.
The current desaster was completely predictable!

Julia Kendlbacher, Belém, Brazil

infrastructure schminfrastrusture

Hobo Jim, Denver/CO, USA

Spend your money on rockets and bombs instead of your own people and their infrastructure then blame the west. It seems that you have misplaced your priorities and misplaced the blame as well. The shame is on you Hamas and the Palestinian people for allowing this.

Malcolm, St. Tropez, France

Dear Hamas;

Stop spending money and aid on weapons and terrorism and spend it providing infrastructure for your citizens.

Dave, Independence, KY

Everyone over there has the money for AK-47 assault rifles and suicide vests, but somehow they can't find the funding for an updated sewage treatment plant..... that's justice for you.

MAC, Pittsburgh, Pa

It never seems to be the Palistinian's fault. The fault always is some external agency. If its not the Israeli's, its the US'. Or the EU's. Or someone else.

Its time that Hamas assume the leadership and responsibility of a country and not behave like a bunch a squabbling factional war lords who lead a failed state.

Dru Richman, Richardson, TX, USA

Why don't some of the very rich Arab oil states put money into Gaza? Not just on an emergency basis but on a permanent basis?

John S. Knight, sheffield, england

Whilst this is an appalling tragedy, it's no use Hamas bleating about lack of aid -- they regularly cross from Egypt with suitcases stuffed with money.

The problem is that they spend just about all of it paying the militias and buying bombs and bullets.

David, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England

No one comments here.
No USA help here.
No UK help here.
No UNO here.
This silence will break one day and the rest of the world shall listen.
Time changes remeber that.

James, London, UK

Nice! Crap for Crap. Why dont they ask Syria and Iran to come help clean up there sewage?

RW, Charlotte,