“Maybe line up the prisoners in front of it and use them as a barrier.”
Khan Yunis, February 8 – The leader of the Islamist terrorist organization that still governs some of the Gaza Strip voiced anxiety today over the accumulation of human waste products in the underground shelter where he, some guards, aides, and a number of Israeli hostages have spent the last several weeks, now that Israeli strikes have compromised the plumbing system.
Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas chief in this embattled coastal territory, told his men again today that he hopes the growing pile of feces on the other side of the room doesn’t topple over, leak, or otherwise spread, given the already-cramped and unsanitary conditions of the bunker.
“Comrades, we have to contain the crap somehow,” he stated. “Maybe line up the prisoners in front of it and use them as a barrier.”
Sinwar, a dozen men, and an unknown number of Israelis captured during the October 7 massacres in southern Israel now inhabit what was once a sprawling complex of tunnels and rooms far underground, but that Israel’s offensive operations into Khan Yunis have curtailed. Airstrikes, artillery barrages, precision drone activity, and hand-placed demolition work by the IDF have cut the group off from the vast majority of the network, confining them to one large room. Several smaller rooms remain accessible but contain little space not already occupied by munitions and other equipment. The two available toilets ceased working last week, and the quantity of human waste aggregating in the main chamber has reached worrying levels.
“We Gazans are used to this sort of thing,” acknowledged one of the men. “When you dig up sewage pipes to use them in rocket manufacturing, you have to accustom yourself to more or less constant exposure to raw sewage. It’s just that generally, that exposure was outdoors, with air circulating. That’s… not what we have here.”
“We even stopped feeding the hostages very much to cut their fecal output,” added a comrade. “That’s helped somewhat, but the ret of us need to keep our strength and mental acuity at peak, and that’s impossible without three squares a day. We have plenty of foodstuffs from UNRWA and other UN agencies that we’ve stockpiled over the last decade or so. Just have to make sure the poop doesn’t touch the flour and rice. So far so good? But it’s getting tougher.”
A bout of diarrhea among the hostages late last week exacerbated the situation, leading several of the men to debate how many human shields could be sacrificed while maintaining effectiveness, in case such executions become the only way to stem the flow.
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