waste crisis

Hamas said Washington is complicit in Israel’s attacks on Gaza [Getty]

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Gaza's families forced to shelter in landfills as Israel attacks

"We desperately need urgent intervention before Gaza becomes an environmental and health disaster," warned Hosni Muhanna, PR director at Gaza Municipality.

Sally Ibrahim

25 March, 2025

Garbage collected by the SWIM-Initiative in Akkar, North of Lebanon. Photo: Lisa Sofian, SWIM-Initiative

Lebanon

Environment and Climate

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SWIM: Meet the 'trashy' local initiative cleaning up Lebanon

Lisa Sofian

28 August, 2023

A call for Action: Revitalizing Lebanon’s Waste Management

Lebanon

Environment and Climate

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A call for action: Revitalising Lebanon's waste management

Mariam Younes

21 August, 2023

Air pollution

Israel

Israel's environmental violations feed its apartheid regime

Hala Yacoub

13 July, 2023

A Tunisian anti-government demonstrator stands in front of a road block during a general strike on November 10, 2021, following the reopening of a rubbish dump, in the Tunisian town of Agareb in the central region of Sfax, which has seen weeks of angry demonstrations over a growing waste crisis.

Tunisia

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The political decay at the heart of Tunisia's waste crisis

Alessandra Bajec

13 December, 2021

A Palestinian fisherman prepares his fishnets along a beach off the Mediterranean Sea in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on September 2, 2020. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) (Photo by SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment and Climate

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Palestinians make recycling a habit with new eco-initiatives

Sally Ibrahim

07 December, 2021

Tunisia

Environment and Climate

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Tunisia’s waste crisis: Government failures risk lives

The New Arab (From the Arabic Edition)

24 November, 2021

Beirut beach cleanup AFP

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Greenpeace, Mashrou' Leila team-up to detox Beirut's plastic binge

Karim Traboulsi

06 August, 2017

trash beirut

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Lebanese Cabinet approves garbage export plan

The New Arab

22 December, 2015

Alexandria garbage crisis [al-Masry al-Youm]

Alexandrians launch popular campaign to tackle growing garbage crisis

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Nada Ramadan

16 September, 2015

Lebanon 01092015 sit-in Beirut

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Lebanon protesters storm government building, demand minister resigns

The New Arab & agencies

01 September, 2015

Lebanon protests august 2015 - DONT REUSE

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Lebanese protesters give government three-day ultimatum

The New Arab & agencies

30 August, 2015