>> In an alarming development, the algae bloom spread along Israel’s Mediterranean coast, disrupting seawater desalination plants that provide much of the country’s drinking water [at least 65 percent], CNN reported, citing Mekorot, Israel’s national water company.

>> Gaza’s wastewater treatment system has been heavily damaged during the war, with some 40,000 cubic metres of untreated wastewater reportedly flowing into the sea each day, …

>> “In our case, I currently have no other explanation except a pollution source in the southern Gaza Strip,” [head of Ben-Gurion University’s Climate Change Laboratory Avner] Gross said to Ynet