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Time to begin assessing the physical damage to Gaza, while the death count rises as recovery crews are at last able to reach victims. This Al Jazeera video reports it’s estimated that rebuilding Gaza will cost one billion dollars and take five years to complete. That, of course, is assuming that Gazans will have access to building materials and machinery, as well as the fuel, food, medical supplies and other materials needed by any society. And where were people live, work and study in the meantime? Where will they heal? Pray? Celebrate? Where will civic activities take place?
Crossposted at JustPeaceNow
The Face of Gaza for Years to Come? |
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| By: Laura Doty Sunday January 18, 2009 11:03 am | |
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It is dugg.
If the Palestinians find, somehow, the ‘means’ to rebuild, then will the great state of Israel allow them the time to do so.
Or, will the face of Gaza continue to be scarred and and freshly assaulted again … and yet again?
Thank you, Laura, for sharing this glimpse of reality in this time of sanitized madness and one-sided ‘truth’ …
David
Here’s this from the ICRC about Gaza today.
One of the items which seems to go missing in all of these discussion is the numbers of cluster bombs which must be laying all over the place in Gaza; the place is going to be uninhabitable.
CNN confirms Israel broke ceasefire first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KntmpoRXFX4
Israel admits no rockets fired during ceasefire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfFMZ7Y-s_c
Laura, thank you for keeping this in awareness.
Kuwait City – Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz on Monday announced the donation of $1-billion for the reconstruction of Gaza, which has been battered by a deadly Israeli offensive.
The Arab leaders are tipped to approve the setting up of a $2-billion fund for the reconstruction of Gaza.
Qatar last week suggested the establishment of a fund for Gaza and donated $250-million.
http://www.thestar.co.za/?fSec…..896C601243
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has appealed to its member-states to raise fund for humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
The president hopes to raise funds for an OIC humanitarian convoy to help the people of the Gaza Strip, the statement added.
The appeal is in line with a regional Arab summit on Gaza held in Qatar’s capital on Friday.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.a…..=351020202
In response to this, Federation of Students Islamic Societies, (FOSIS) Ireland, together with Malaysians Muslim Students Association Ireland (PPIMI), Islamic Medical Association Malaysia (IMAM), and Kelab UMNO Dublin (KUD) would like to extend our concern towards the victims of inhumanity in Palestine.
We have agreed to join together to mobilise the students population in universities and colleges to fundraise and create awareness towards aiding and liberating the state and people of Palestine. These will be done through numerous methods and will be initiated through our organizations from now until the 15th of February 2008.
Fund raised will be transferred directly to Islamic Relief which is now among the charity organization actively working in GAZA.
http://www.fosisirelandchapter.com/?p=106
Since December 27th:
* UNRWA has provided shelter for 37,937 Palestinians in UNWRA schools and shelters, and the number is rising every day
* UNWRA has supplied medicines, blood and generator fuel for hospitals and public institutions
* UNRWA has been a focal point for humanitarian aid and brings in donated items from sister UN organisations, institutions, and governments.
Thousands of people have lost their livelihoods, possessions, homes and family members…everything. Please help us help Gaza.
Every donation, whatever size, is appreciated.
http://www.un.org/unrwa/
The 270 Jordanian nurses, all volunteers, departed Jordan for the Rafah border crossing on Monday, announced the Jordanian Nurses Association.
“Over a thousand Iranian doctors and nurses have volunteered to go to the Gaza Strip [to treat the wounded],” announced Iranian Health Minister Kamran Baqeri-Lankarani.
Earlier this week, Egyptian authorities approved entry into Gaza via the Rafah land crossing to 15 doctors — 11 Egyptians, three Jordanians and one Belgian.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.a…..=351020206
An internet search showed that the Palestinians will be helped. Money is being raised around the world. Aid workers of all types from many countries are heading for Gaza. The world could not stop the slaughter, but the world is going to assist the survivors.
That is the good news; the bad news is that there are more reports of never before seen injuries. Israel is guilty of war crimes for unleashing these horrific weapons; especially considering that half of the population of Palestine consists of children.
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AMMAN –– Jordanian doctors in the Shifa Hospital in Gaza say that they have to deal with burns they have never seen before as they treat Palestinians wounded in Israel’s 17-day-old offensive in the besieged coastal enclave of 1.5 million inhabitants.
Bassem Kiswani, a surgeon, described the situation in Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifaa, as “tragic” due to the “strange” injuries and the large number of wounded people, particularly children.
“There are hundreds of wounded children at the hospital suffering various types of injuries such as burns, suffocation and organ failure,” the volunteer noted in a telephone interview from Gaza.
“The only explanation we have is that Israel is using internationally banned weapons such as white phosphorus,” Kiswani told The Jordan Times on Monday.
Kiswani indicated that some injured children had to have their legs amputated above the knee, while bodies arrived in the hospital completely charred.
“There’s a very strong suspicion I think that Gaza is now being used as a test laboratory for new weapons,” Mads Gilbert told reporters at Oslo’s Gardermoen Airport, commenting on the kinds of injuries he and his colleague Erik Fosse had seen while working at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
The two medics, who were sent into the war zone by the aid organisation NORWAC on December 31, said they had seen clear signs that Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME), an experimental kind of explosive, were being used in Gaza.
“This is a new generation of very powerful small explosives that detonates with an extreme power and dissipates its power within a range of five to 10 metres, said Gilbert, 61.
“We have not seen the casualties affected directly by the bomb because they are normally torn to pieces and do not survive, but we have seen a number of very brutal amputations… without shrapnel injuries which we strongly suspect must have been caused by the DIME weapons,” he added.
On Sunday, seven Jordanian doctors arrived in the Gaza Strip through Rafah crossing and currently work at the Shifa Hospital. They were the only Jordanian physicians who made it to the war-stricken enclave from among scores of colleagues who volunteered for the humanitarian mission.
According to an official from the Jordan Medical Association (JMA) the medical delegation consists of two orthopaedic surgeons, three general surgeons, a plastic surgery specialist and a paediatrician.
http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=13448