Israel’s eight-month war on the Gaza Strip has created a deadly time bomb: open sites where rotting refuse have piled up for months due to access to Gaza’s main landfills being blocked. This situation has seen a proliferation of contagious diseases, especially among the displaced, amid a dire humanitarian situation generated by Israel’s genocidal onslaught in which vital infrastructure has been deliberately targeted and disabled. With the onset of summer and rising temperatures, the Nuseirat camp’s rubbish dump, in the central region of the Gaza Strip, is one of many such sites now posing an i…