February 29, 2008
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syrian President Bashar Assad (AP)
The Gaza Strip’s water provider on Wednesday urged the area’s 1.5 million people to boil their drinking water, blaming a shortage of purifying chlorine because of an Israeli blockade. … The authority said there is a "major concern over a health disaster due to possible contamination of the drinking water" and appealed to the international community for help.
The Israeli military said the Palestinians did not make a request for chlorine until Wednesday, and it was urgently trying to arrange a new shipment into Gaza.
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