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1/19/2010 09:50:00 PM Posted by Editor Publisher Hiyam Noir
Gaza "Tsunami" - After a cesspit collapsed flooding villages with sewage water
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Hiyam Noir
Tuesday January 19 2010 11:48
GAZA - On Monday, Gaza civil defense forces evacuated and rescued tens of families from their homes in Juhor-Ad-Dik,a small town south of Gaza city.From nearby hills water flooded the streets, the residents trapped in the area called the Gaza city emergency and medical services. The director of Gaza civil defense,colonel Yousef Az-Zahhar, said that the situation is urgent, vehicle traffic are prohibited in the streets where water from the valley is gushing down from nearby hills.
According to claims from the Gaza authorities, the Israelis have opened a dam between the city of Gaza and the central Gaza strip, which caused flooding of the streets,homes and property in the area.No injuries is yet reported,rescue teams are working to clean up the water,but many residents are still on Tuesday,unable to return to their homes.
The area flooded with water has cut of Gaza city from the southern parts of the West Bank.The Westbank bordering Gaza,is also declared a state of emergency, high risk of landslides and flooding is reported in various places and it is expected to get worse.
In the southern parts of the West Bank villages are facing one of their worst of years ever.After a long drought during the summer months and extremely low rainfall,the region only got 55% of its average rainfall, which has lead to landslides and a total destruction of crops,and reduced drinking water to a critical level.
Surrounded by Jewish settlements and checkpoints, according to local farmers,impoverished Palestinian families have lost more than 50 percent of their crops and herds, because of severe drought.Israeli checkpoints and the closures, are creating many problems for the Palestinians. The problems of transporting water on the Westbank has become both time consuming and very expensive, so most of the villages depend on the rainwater to gather in cisterns, a tank that catch and store rainwater.
And the Israeli occupation of the Westbank make the living conditions even worse, Jewish settlers, poison the water in the cisterns, uproot olive trees and destroy the crops , the Israeli policy of checkpoints impede herds from moving around.The director general of the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Department, Peter Zangle, visited the area on Tuesday, announcing that an extra EUR 4 million will be aided to provide water and fodder for affected villages..
The funds of 4 million,EUR.from EU will be distributed through United Nations organisations, working on the ground together with relief agencies and local NGOs working on water, food and seed distribution.
In a statement regarding the situation on the Westbank, Zangle said that -" In my job I see the reality of people who are living in desperate conditions which cannot easily bring into life dignity, as a part of my job is to notify my organisation about these difficult situations worldwide".
The European Commission’s aid to the Palestinians has added up to 500 million EUR,since year 2000.EU is the largest single donor to the Westbank based Fatah ruled Palestinian Authority (PA), and is particularly active in supporting Palestinian NGOs. Despite all the aid money - today,the Palestinians are more impoverished than they ever have been before.
Supported by the United States and the United Kingdom,back in 1948,fanatical Israeli extremists,began in brutal force it's usurping of the Palestinian peoples homeland.Since then the Palestinians have been denied all their inalienable human rights,as expressed in the UN universal declarations, and as prescribed in the UN resolutions, particularly their political rights, as expressed in the resolution 181, 194, and 242.
Ever since the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, Zionist Israel have been denying Palestinian their right to freedom.The Palestinians have been denied any political rights, inside their own homeland.Official Palestinian political representatives and ten thousands members of the Palestinian resistance are languishing in Israeli jails and prisons.Forced under military rule, the Palestinians have been killed, injured,abducted and tortured. The Zionist Israel have destroyed Palestinian possessions, stolen property and built illegal settlements on Palestinian lands.
Conclusion
"Aid" in the Palestinian case, has not functioned as a causal agent, but as a substitute for honest politics.To the Palestinians in it's dependency of sovereignty and state-building, the foreign aid has to a large extent, as a result become the means for Western colonisers to re wrap it's military occupation , another example of Western military occupation, is the " aiding " given to Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the prospects of achieving a political settlement between the Palestinians and the occupying power Israel, EU and other large donors of aid to the Palestinians, including the United States (aid-giver to PA in Ramallah) ,must denounce the Israeli occupation.Put serious demands on the Israelis to renounce its violence, and with all means necessarily, force the Israelis to recognize the Palestinian rights to sovereignty. To the Palestinians, who are facing many obstacles, nothing meaningful or substantial have come out of foreign "aid", but a very temporary relieve from their reality of extreme hardship, constant hunger and pain.
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Gaza under water as Israel opens dam
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According to claims from the Gaza authorities, the Israelis have opened a dam between the city of Gaza and the central Gaza strip, which caused flooding of the streets,homes and property in the area.No injuries is yet reported,rescue teams are working to clean up the water,but many residents are still on Tuesday,unable to return to their homes.
The area flooded with water has cut of Gaza city from the southern parts of the West Bank.The Westbank bordering Gaza,is also declared a state of emergency, high risk of landslides and flooding is reported in various places and it is expected to get worse.
In the southern parts of the West Bank villages are facing one of their worst of years ever.After a long drought during the summer months and extremely low rainfall,the region only got 55% of its average rainfall, which has lead to landslides and a total destruction of crops,and reduced drinking water to a critical level.
Surrounded by Jewish settlements and checkpoints, according to local farmers,impoverished Palestinian families have lost more than 50 percent of their crops and herds, because of severe drought.Israeli checkpoints and the closures, are creating many problems for the Palestinians. The problems of transporting water on the Westbank has become both time consuming and very expensive, so most of the villages depend on the rainwater to gather in cisterns, a tank that catch and store rainwater.
And the Israeli occupation of the Westbank make the living conditions even worse, Jewish settlers, poison the water in the cisterns, uproot olive trees and destroy the crops , the Israeli policy of checkpoints impede herds from moving around.The director general of the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Department, Peter Zangle, visited the area on Tuesday, announcing that an extra EUR 4 million will be aided to provide water and fodder for affected villages..
The funds of 4 million,EUR.from EU will be distributed through United Nations organisations, working on the ground together with relief agencies and local NGOs working on water, food and seed distribution.
In a statement regarding the situation on the Westbank, Zangle said that -" In my job I see the reality of people who are living in desperate conditions which cannot easily bring into life dignity, as a part of my job is to notify my organisation about these difficult situations worldwide".
The European Commission’s aid to the Palestinians has added up to 500 million EUR,since year 2000.EU is the largest single donor to the Westbank based Fatah ruled Palestinian Authority (PA), and is particularly active in supporting Palestinian NGOs. Despite all the aid money - today,the Palestinians are more impoverished than they ever have been before.
Supported by the United States and the United Kingdom,back in 1948,fanatical Israeli extremists,began in brutal force it's usurping of the Palestinian peoples homeland.Since then the Palestinians have been denied all their inalienable human rights,as expressed in the UN universal declarations, and as prescribed in the UN resolutions, particularly their political rights, as expressed in the resolution 181, 194, and 242.
Ever since the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, Zionist Israel have been denying Palestinian their right to freedom.The Palestinians have been denied any political rights, inside their own homeland.Official Palestinian political representatives and ten thousands members of the Palestinian resistance are languishing in Israeli jails and prisons.Forced under military rule, the Palestinians have been killed, injured,abducted and tortured. The Zionist Israel have destroyed Palestinian possessions, stolen property and built illegal settlements on Palestinian lands.
Conclusion
"Aid" in the Palestinian case, has not functioned as a causal agent, but as a substitute for honest politics.To the Palestinians in it's dependency of sovereignty and state-building, the foreign aid has to a large extent, as a result become the means for Western colonisers to re wrap it's military occupation , another example of Western military occupation, is the " aiding " given to Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the prospects of achieving a political settlement between the Palestinians and the occupying power Israel, EU and other large donors of aid to the Palestinians, including the United States (aid-giver to PA in Ramallah) ,must denounce the Israeli occupation.Put serious demands on the Israelis to renounce its violence, and with all means necessarily, force the Israelis to recognize the Palestinian rights to sovereignty. To the Palestinians, who are facing many obstacles, nothing meaningful or substantial have come out of foreign "aid", but a very temporary relieve from their reality of extreme hardship, constant hunger and pain.
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Gaza under water as Israel opens dam
River to Sea
Uprooted Palestinian
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