waste crisis

Israel regularly dumps electronic waste in the West Bank, causing major health concerns [Getty]
Occupied West Bank
MENA
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Cancer and birth defects as Israel dumps waste in West Bank

Israel is bypassing its own environmental regulations to dump electronic waste in the West Bank, leading to injuries, cancer, and birth defects

N.
20 June, 2026
Hamas said Washington is complicit in Israel’s attacks on Gaza [Getty]
Gaza War
MENA
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Gaza's families forced to shelter in landfills as Israel attacks

Sally Ibrahim
25 March, 2025
Gaza War
MENA
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Polio virus found as flies and mosquitoes feast on Gaza's waste

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 July, 2024
Gaza War
MENA
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Gaza threatened by deadly disease as garbage fills streets

Sally Ibrahim
19 January, 2024
How Israel's blockade of Gaza caused an environmental crisis
Gaza War
Environment and Climate
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Israel's blockade of Gaza creates an environmental crisis

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab

24 October, 2023
Lebanon landfill
Lebanon
Society
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How Lebanon's biggest landfill is making everyone sick

Omar Hamed Beato

Omar Hamed Beato

29 September, 2023
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

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

Mariam Younes

21 August, 2023
Air pollution
Israel
Perspectives

Israel's environmental violations feed its apartheid regime

Hala Yacoub

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
In-depth
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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)
West Bank
Environment and Climate
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Palestinians make recycling a habit with new eco-initiatives

The New Arab Staff

Sally Ibrahim

07 December, 2021
Tunisia
Environment and Climate
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Tunisia’s waste crisis: Government failures risk lives

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab (From the Arabic Edition)

24 November, 2021
Beirut beach cleanup AFP
You Stink
Society
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Greenpeace, Mashrou' Leila team-up to detox Beirut's plastic binge

Karim Traboulsi

Karim Traboulsi

06 August, 2017
trash beirut
waste crisis
MENA
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Lebanese Cabinet approves garbage export plan

The New Arab
22 December, 2015
Alexandria garbage crisis [al-Masry al-Youm]
waste crisis
Narrated

Alexandrians launch popular campaign to tackle growing garbage crisis

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Nada Ramadan

16 September, 2015
Lebanon 01092015 sit-in Beirut
waste crisis
MENA
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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
waste crisis
MENA
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Lebanese protesters give government three-day ultimatum

The New Arab & agencies
30 August, 2015