Gaza Blockade
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- Categoria: Riflessioni
- Pubblicato Sabato, 03 Dicembre 2011 22:01
- Scritto da EWASH and Al-Haq
Beit Hanoun well destroyed in Operation Cast Lead
Israel’s violations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
with regard to the human rights to water and sanitation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
September 2011
75. (...) [T]hese intentional acts and omissions by Israel to deny availability of and access to water and sanitation have caused severe pain and suffering on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip who have not only struggled to manage their personal and domestic needs due to lack of access of sufficient supplies of safe water but have had to live with both the indignity and potential health risks of sewage flowing in the streets of residential areas. In 2011, Gazans on average had 91 litres of water available per person per day, albeit of dangerous quality. This is compared to Israeli‟s having on average access to 280 litre of high quality water per person per day. The sanitation situation has resulted not only in contamination of the Coastal Aquifer, agricultural land and urban neighbourhoods, but 50 to 80 million litres of raw sewage flows into the Mediterranean Sea each day. On account of this water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip, UNRWA reports that diarrhoea and acute bloody diarrhoea, diseases caused by lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation, remain the major cause of morbidity among infectious diseases affecting the refugee population of the Gaza Strip.
Movimento dell'acqua: in Palestina "assetati di giustizia"
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- Categoria: Riflessioni
- Pubblicato Sabato, 03 Dicembre 2011 08:30
- Scritto da Zyaad Lunat*
28 novembre 2011
E' molto tempo che ai palestinesi sono negati i più basilari diritti. Uno tra questi è il diritto all’acqua. L’acqua è simbolo di vita ed è proprio per questo che state manifestando in Italia.
Israele preleva per i propri consumi quasi il 90% dell’acqua dai Territori Occupati, sottraendola all’uso della popolazione palestinese.
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Deliberate attacks on and destruction of water and sanitation infrastructure
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- Categoria: Riflessioni
- Pubblicato Venerdì, 02 Dicembre 2011 21:45
- Scritto da EWASH and Al-Haq
Israel’s violations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
with regard to the human rights to water and sanitation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
September 2011
59. Since the outbreak of the second Intifada, and prior to “Operation Cast Lead”, Israeli military forces have been deliberately targeting water and sewage infrastructure throughout the Gaza Strip. The United Nations reported that between 2000 and 2006 Israeli forces destroyed 244 wells in the Gaza Strip, including two drinking water sources.46 Even after “Operation Cast Lead”, water and sanitation infrastructure is routinely destroyed by Israel. As recently as June 2011, a well in Beit Hanoun was bombed and destroyed by Israel forces. Similarly, several agricultural wells were destroyed in the summer of 2011. Roads, water supply lines and sanitation networks have been dug up using specially designed “back-hoe” tanks and bulldozers. Waste-water treatment plants in Gaza City and Rafah have been attacked or partially destroyed and water storage tanks on Palestinian roof tops as well as cisterns have been fired at. According to the then Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory:
… between June and November 2006, [Israeli military] carried out 346 military incursions into different parts of Gaza, accompanied by persistent artillery shelling and air to surface missile attacks. Missiles, shells and bulldozers destroyed, or caused serious damage to, homes, schools, hospitals, mosques, public buildings, bridges, water pipelines and sewage networks.
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It’s the export, stupid!
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- Categoria: Riflessioni
- Pubblicato Giovedì, 01 Dicembre 2011 15:22
- Scritto da Gisha
November 30, 2011
Flowers and Vegetables. Munther Budi Farm, Gaza, Beit Lahia
Three days ago two truckloads of strawberries exited Gaza and passed through Israel on their way to Europe. They were the first truckloads of export allowed out of the Strip in over six months, part of a program funded by the Dutch government to bring Gaza produce to European markets.
To mark the occasion, we recall an animated clip about the volume of goods entering the Gaza Strip released by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) in June of this year.The numbers seem impressive – every day about 260 trucks enter Gaza from Israel, carrying about 6,000 tons of goods. According to the clip, Israel can transfer double that volume into the Gaza Strip, about 400 trucks per day, carrying 12,000 tons of goods, however “demand is ultimately determined by the Palestinians”.In other words, what closure?
Tel Aviv sostiene l'inviso generale Hissein Tantawi
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- Categoria: Riflessioni
- Pubblicato Giovedì, 01 Dicembre 2011 02:28
- Scritto da Michele Giorgio
Il Manifesto, 24 Novembre 2011
Israele
L'ambasciatore israeliano Yitzhak Levanon qualche giorno fa, senza far rumore, è ritornato al Cairo. Ha salutato e stretto la mano al ministro degli esteri Mohamed Kamel Amr e subito dopo è partito per la sua nuova destinazione. Nessuno sa quando il suo sostituto arriverà nella capitale egiziana. E in tanti scommettono che ci vorrà parecchio tempo prima che il governo Netanyahu nomini il nuovo rappresentante diplomatico israeliano in Egitto, a conferma che i rapporti tra i due paesi sono destinati a rimanere freddi.
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