Seattle homeless crisis leaves Jewish cemetery dealing with parked RVs, leftover needles, trash

The homelessness crisis in Seattle has turned a Jewish cemetery on the north side of the city into a battleground in the near-daily fight for groundskeepers to clean up everything from used needles to human feces from a fleet of RVs parked nearby.

The historic Bikur Cholim cemetery located about 8 miles north of downtown Seattle has burial sites dating back to the 1800’s, but in the past two years a small problem has “exploded” into a costly cleanup, according to Ari Hoffman, a board member of the Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath Synagogue.

In the past two years, Hoffman said groundskeepers have been busy with a surge of needles, drug paraphernalia, used condoms and human feces “all over the place.”

“You name it, we found it in the cemetery,” he told Fox News on Wednesday

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