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Scritto da Anat Shalev
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Sabato 13 Marzo 2010 08:36 |
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ynet, 12.03.10
Indictments issued Thursday against two soldiers who fought in Operation Cast Lead for allegedly forcing child to open bags suspected of being booby trapped. Ynet reveals full testimony of child, Majd that lays out alleged events of that day. The war through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy
An IDF soldier in a Palestinian house Photo courtesy of IDF Spokesperson Unit
"I thought they would kill me. I became very scared and wet my pants. I could not shout or say anything because I was too afraid… He pushed me towards the small corridor in front of the bathrooms. He began shouting at me and speaking a language I did not understand… There were two bags in front of me. I grabbed the first one as he stood one and a half meters away. I opened the bag as he pointed his weapon directly at me. I emptied the bag on the floor. It contained money and papers. I looked at him and he was laughing. I grabbed the second bag to open it but I could not. I tried many times but it was useless, so he shouted at me. He grabbed my hair and slapped me very hard across the face."
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Scritto da Ma'an
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Venerdì 12 Marzo 2010 08:02 |
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Ma'an News Agency, 11/03/2010
The average number of trucks per week in February was 741, while the average number of trucks entering Gaza before the Israeli siege, was 2,807 per week, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
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Scritto da Ma'an
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Sabato 06 Marzo 2010 10:46 |
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Associazione di Amicizia Italo-Palestinese, 5 marzo 2010
Ma’an News Agency
I proprietari delle case distrutte a Gaza... in attesa di una speranza...
Gaza - Ma'an – ….si ricordano bene della data della demolizione delle loro case come fosse la data della loro nascita!
Sono migliaia i cittadini le cui case sono state distrutte dall'inizio dell'Intifada di Al-Aqsa. In seguito all’invasione dei terreni adiacenti al confine con la città di Rafah effettuata dalle forze d'occupazione, in quella zona sono state distrutte migliaia di case. Ora, la popolazione è in attesa della ricostruzione delle loro abitazioni, pur sapendo che l’assedio, la divisione politica interna, il blocco della ricostruzione imposto da Israele e il divieto di ingresso al materiale da costruzione possano complessivamente prolungare la loro attesa.
Il signor Mahmoud Dabbas è un abitante di Chaboura - Rafah, la sua casa è stata distrutta il 24.06.2001 dalle forze di occupazione faccendola esplodere e trasformandola in un cumulo di macerie, lasciando così una famiglia composta di 15 persone senza fissa di mora.
Il signor Dabbas, come tanti altri cittadini che hanno perso la casa, in quanto le loro abitazioni sono state distrutte, è stato costretto a prendere in affitto un’altra casa. Dabbas racconta la sua storia a 'Maa’n': “da quasi un anno non riesco a pagare l'affitto della mia casa, sono quasi 150 dollari al mese, a causa della mancanza di lavoro; l'autorità Nazionale Palestinese a Ramallah non ci rimborsa più l'affitto da circa sei anni e nessun funzionario governativo ha mai dichiarato che le nostre case verranno ricostruite”.
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Scritto da Akiva Eldar
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Venerdì 05 Marzo 2010 10:24 |
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05/03/2010
Even though there are plenty of goods available in Gaza, and that people should be able to get them, the problem is of course that most people have no money. Eighty percent of the people in Gaza are essentially dependent on outside food aid, either from UNWRA or the World Food Program. Not because there isn't food in the shops - there is - but they can't afford it, or they can't afford enough of it because any livelihoods that there were, any jobs that there were outside the government have effectively disappeared. Most private businesses have been destroyed, essentially by the blockade - bulldozed - and the rest finished off by Cast Lead.
Other than the people that work for Hamas, or are paid by the PA, there is no income, so people are forced to live on handouts.
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Scritto da Micheál Martin
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Venerdì 05 Marzo 2010 05:27 |
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I.H.T. Op-Ed Contributor
Published: March 4, 2010
Last week I visited Gaza, the first European Union foreign minister to do so in over a year. My purpose was very much a humanitarian one, to see for myself the impact of a blockade that has now been imposed on the people of Gaza for some two-and-a-half years and to meet with the courageous and dedicated staff of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), including its director of operations, Irishman John Ging. They play an indispensable role in maintaining vital humanitarian services to the people of Gaza.
From my arrival in Gaza, the deprivations and hardships resulting from the blockade were all too evident. Visiting an UNRWA food distribution center, I could see for myself the despair and suffering etched in the faces of those who queued for the most basic rations of rice, milk powder and sunflower oil. Eighty percent of the population of Gaza now lives below the poverty line and UNRWA is encountering increasing levels of abject poverty where people basically do not have enough food, even with their meager food allocations, to live.
The tragedy of Gaza is that it is fast in danger of becoming a tolerated humanitarian crisis, a situation that most right-thinking people recognize as utterly unacceptable in this day and age but which is proving extremely difficult to remedy or ameliorate due to the blockade and the wider ramifications of efforts to try and achieve political progress in the Middle East.
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