This morning after I posted this article, someone pointed out to me how contradictory the assertion about "no humanitarian crisis in Gaza" really is.
I think that perhaps international aid organizations like UNICEF and the Red Cross are almost FORCED to make this assertion in order to continue operating in Gaza. They have to cater to the good-will of an oppressive Zionist regime, and Israeli leaders are on record as saying they want to put Gaza "on a diet," i.e. to starve them. This is what this article I posted suggests, and I think this is the reality. I think what might be happening in Gaza is similar to what is happening all over the world, and in the US, too, and that is the growing disparity between rich and poor. Yes, there may indeed be restaurants and the "high life" in Gaza. It is available to the people who have cottoned to the Israelis, but the reality for many Gazans is desperate poverty, homelessness and starvation. Israel will not be the first regime to showcase to the world an affluent, satisfied population in the areas it occupies, and claim that this is the norm. I think the Germans did the same thing for Red Cross officials visiting concentration camps. When I googled "Red Cross visit to Nazi concentration camps," I easily found reference to this. http://www.scrapbookpages.com/czechrepublic/theresienstadt/theresienstadtghetto/history/redcrossvisit.html May God have mercy on all who suffer oppression. Romi Elnagar --- In [email protected], Romi Elnagar <bluesapphire48@...> wrote: > > Gaza children stressed, desperate and in danger: UNICEF > > Posted: April 21, 2011 by crescentandcross > Israel’s near five years > blockade on the Gaza Strip causes extensive poverty, endemic > unemployment and 80 percent of Gazans to be dependent on aid handouts > > > Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip has left the isolated > Palestinian territory’s children stressed, desperate and in poverty, > forcing some to do dangerous and deadly work, UNICEF said Tuesday. > > While there is no humanitarian > crisis in Gaza, Israel’s blockade means there is extensive poverty, > endemic unemployment and that 80 percent of Gazans are dependent on aid > handouts, said UNICEF spokeswoman Catherine Weibel. > > Children under 18, around half > the estimated 1.5 million population of the territory governed by > Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, are the most affected, the United > Nations children’s agency spokeswoman told journalists. > > While 90 percent of Gazan children are educated poverty still obliges many to work. > > They work often in “danger > zones†such as smuggling tunnels running under the border from Egypt > aimed at defying the Israeli blockade. > > To keep working in the tunnels, which could collapse, be bombed or gassed, > many youths take Tramadol painkillers, Weibel said. > > Children also work as scrap > collectors, scavenging for metal or other materials among the ruins in > the buffer zone near the Israeli border where “Israel shoots > systematically at anything that moves,†Weibel said. > > “Children are wounded or killed > every week,†she said, stressing the despair of adolescents who “don’t > know what they will become and have the feeling that they’re cut off > from the rest of the world.†> > “There has been an explosion in > the number of children killed on both sides of the border†since the > start of the year, she said. > > In 2010, 11 Palestinian children > were killed and 360 wounded in the Gaza Strip and Israeli-occupied West > Bank. Three Palestinian children were killed and 64 wounded in January > and February. > > On March 22, two Palestinian > children were killed in an Israeli strike as they played football in > front of their home in Gaza City. > > On Sunday, an Israeli teenager who was seriously wounded in an April 7 rocket > attack from Gaza died. > > http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/gaza-children-stressed-desperate-and-in-danger-unicef/#more-6616 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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