Palestine: Cleaning up the beach
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“My mother saw a group of men collecting some wood off the beach the other day. She
assumed they were custodial workers and thanked them for their work, asking why the Municipality didn’t send people out to clean up the beach more often. It was then that she realized they were
actually not trash collectors but Palestinians searching for driftwood to light a small campfire with. Not only that, but as she would learn, it was the Palestinian Minister of the Environment, Yousuf
Abu Safiya and two of his co-workers. It appears they are also stuck in Egypt,” Laila reporting from
Gaza/Egypt borders.




