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Action Alert: Twenty-Six Things to Help Gaza
So far hundreds of civilians have been killed in Gaza. Five sisters in one family, four other children in another home, two children on a cart drawn by a donkey. Universities, colleges, police stations, roads, apartment buildings were all targeted. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian areas issued a statement that "The Israeli air-strikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war."
Twenty-six things to do to bring peace with justice:
(1) First get the facts and then disseminate them. Here are some basic background information: http://tinyurl.com/8ppsec http://tinyurl.com/6dok4l http://tinyurl.com/7budqp
The true story behind this war: http://tinyurl.com/9624zp http://tinyurl.com/785dzt
If Gaza Falls: http://tinyurl.com/a53ujd
Gaza massacres must spur us to action: http://tinyurl.com/8dfxee
(2) Contact local media. Write letters to editors (usually 100-150 words) and longer op-eds (usually 600-800 words) for local newspapers. But also write to news departments in both print, audio, and visual media about their coverage. In the US http://tinyurl.com/2jxwf You can find media listings in your country using search engines like google.
(3) Contact elected and other political leaders in your country to urge them to apply pressure to end the attacks. In the US, Contact the State Department at 202.647.5291, the White House 202-456-1111 the Egyptian Embassy 202.895.5400, Email (embassy@egyptembassy.net) and the Obama Transition Team 202-540-3000 (then press 2 to speak with a staff member). (4) Organize and join demonstrations in front of Israeli and Egyptian embassies or when not doable in front of your parliament, office of elected officials, and any other visible place (and do media work for it).
(5) Hold a teach-in, seminar, public dialogue, documentary film viewing etc. this is straightforward: you need to decide venue, nature, if any speakers, and do some publicity (the internet helps).
(6) Pass out fliers with facts and figures about Palestine and Gaza in your community (make sure also to mention its relevance to the audience: e.g, US taxpayers paying for the carnage, increase in world instability and economic uncertainty).
(7) Put a Palestinian flag at your window.
(8) Wear a Palestinian head scarf (Koufiya)
(9) Wear Black arm bands (this helps start conversations with people).
(10) Send direct aid to Gaza through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).http://www.un.org/unrwa/
(11) Initiate boycotts, divestments and sanctions at all levels and including asking leaders to expel the Israeli ambassadors (an ambassador of an apartheid and rogue state). See Palestinian call http://tinyurl.com/94aafw
(12) Work towards bringing Israeli leaders before war crime courts (actions along those lines in courts have stopped Israeli leaders from traveling abroad to some countries like Britain where they may face charges).
(13) Calling upon all Israelis to demonstrate in front of their war ministry and to more directly challenge their government
(14) Do outreach: to neighbours and friends directly. Via Internet to a lot of others (you can join and post information to various listservs/groups).
(15) Start your own activist group or join other local groups (simple search in your city with the word Palestine could identify candidate groups that have previously worked on issues of Palestine). Many have also been successful in at bringing coalitions from different constituencies in their local areas to work together (human rights group, social and civil activists, religious activists, etc).
(16) Develop a campaign of sit-ins at government offices or other places where decision makers aggregate.
(17) Do a group fast for peace one day and hold it in a public place.
(18) Visit Palestine (e.g. with http://www.sirajcenter.org)
(19) Support human rights and other groups working on the ground in Palestine.
(20) Make large signs and display them at street corners and where ever people congregate.
(21) Contact local churches, mosques, synagogues, and other houses of worship and ask them to take a moral stand and act. Call on your mosque to dedicate this Friday for Gaza actions.
(22) Sign petitions for Gaza, e.g. http://tinyurl.com/8nt5on
(23) Write and call people in Gaza, they need to hear from the outside world.
(24) Work with other groups that do not share your political views (factionalism and excessive divisions within activist communities allowed those who advocate war to succeed).
(25) Dedicate a certain time for activism for peace every day (1 hour) and think of more actions than what are listed above.
(26) Urge your local radio talk shows and news editors to call any of us here in Palestine to report live what is happening on the ground.
For support and contacts of people in Gaza or to volunteer, please contact the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People, via gaza@imemc.org, or call +1-989-607-9480 (from the US and Canada) or +972-2-277-2018 (from other places).
Please feel free to suggest more actions to save Gaza.
*this article were taken from :http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/01/02/action-alert-twenty-six-things-to-help-gaza/
If Gaza falls..........
If Gaza falls . . .
Sara Roy
London Review of Books
1.1.2009
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/roy_01_.html
Israel’s siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt
designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both
sides had violated the agreement before, this incursion was on a different scale. Hamas responded by
firing rockets into Israel and the violence has not abated since then. Israel’s siege has two fundamental
goals. One is to ensure that the Palestinians there are seen merely as a humanitarian problem, beggars
who have no political identity and therefore can have no political claims. The second is to foist Gaza
onto Egypt. That is why the Israelis tolerate the hundreds of tunnels between Gaza and Egypt around
which an informal but increasingly regulated commercial sector has begun to form. The overwhelming
majority of Gazans are impoverished and officially 49.1 per cent are unemployed. In fact the prospect
of steady employment is rapidly disappearing for the majority of the population.
On 5 November the Israeli government sealed all the ways into and out of Gaza. Food, medicine, fuel,
parts for water and sanitation systems, fertiliser, plastic sheeting, phones, paper, glue, shoes and even
teacups are no longer getting through in sufficient quantities or at all. According to Oxfam only 137
trucks of food were allowed into Gaza in November. This means that an average of 4.6 trucks per day
entered the strip compared to an average of 123 in October this year and 564 in December 2005. The
two main food providers in Gaza are the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the
Near East (UNRWA) and the World Food Programme (WFP). UNRWA alone feeds approximately
750,000 people in Gaza, and requires 15 trucks of food daily to do so.
Between 5 November and 30 November, only 23 trucks arrived, around 6 per cent of the total needed;
during the week of 30 November it received 12 trucks, or 11 per cent of what was required. There were
three days in November when UNRWA ran out of food, with the result that on each of these days
20,000 people were unable to receive their scheduled supply. According to John Ging, the director of
UNRWA in Gaza, most of the people who get food aid are entirely dependent on it. On 18 December
UNRWA suspended all food distribution for both emergency and regular programmes because of the
blockade.
The WFP has had similar problems, sending only 35 trucks out of the 190 it had scheduled to cover
Gazans’ needs until the start of February (six more were allowed in between 30 November and 6
December). Not only that: the WFP has to pay to store food that isn’t being sent to Gaza. This cost
$215,000 in November alone. If the siege continues, the WFP will have to pay an extra $150,000 for
storage in December, money that will be used not to support Palestinians but to benefit Israeli business.
The majority of commercial bakeries in Gaza - 30 out of 47 - have had to close because they have run
out of cooking gas. People are using any fuel they can find to cook with. As the UN Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has made clear, cooking-gas canisters are necessary for generating the
warmth to incubate broiler chicks. Shortages of gas and animal feed have forced commercial producers
to smother hundreds of thousands of chicks. By April, according to the FAO, there will be no poultry
there at all: 70 per cent of Gazans rely on chicken as a major source of protein.
Banks, suffering from Israeli restrictions on the transfer of banknotes into the territory were forced to
close on 4 December. A sign on the door of one read: “Due to the decision of the Palestinian Finance
Authority, the bank will be closed today Thursday, 4.12.2008, because of the unavailability of cash
money, and the bank will be reopened once the cash money is available.”
The World Bank has warned that Gaza’s banking system could collapse if these restrictions continue.
All cash for work programmes has been stopped and on 19 November UNRWA suspended its cash
assistance programme to the most needy. It also ceased production of textbooks because there is no
paper, ink or glue in Gaza. This will affect 200,000 students returning to school in the new year. On 11
December, the Israeli defence minister, Ehud Barak, sent $25 million following an appeal from the
Palestinian prime minister, Salaam Fayad, the first infusion of its kind since October. It won’t even
cover a month’s salary for Gaza’s 77,000 civil servants.
On 13 November production at Gaza’s only power station was suspended and the turbines shut down
because it had run out of industrial diesel. This in turn caused the two turbine batteries to run down,
and they failed to start up again when fuel was received some ten days later. About a hundred spare
parts ordered for the turbines have been sitting in the port of Ashdod in Israel for the last eight months,
waiting for the Israeli authorities to let them through customs. Now Israel has started to auction these
parts because they have been in customs for more than 45 days. The proceeds are being held in Israeli
accounts.
During the week of 30 November, 394,000 litres of industrial diesel were allowed in for the power
plant: approximately 18 per cent of the weekly minimum that Israel is legally obliged to allow in. It
was enough for one turbine to run for two days before the plant was shut down again. The Gaza
Electricity Distribution Company said that most of the Gaza Strip will be without electricity for
between four and 12 hours a day. At any given time during these outages, over 65,000 people have no
electricity.
No other diesel fuel (for standby generators and transport) was delivered during that week, no petrol
(which has been kept out since early November) or cooking gas. Gaza’s hospitals are apparently
relying on diesel and gas smuggled from Egypt via the tunnels; these supplies are said to be
administered and taxed by Hamas. Even so, two of Gaza’s hospitals have been out of cooking gas
since the week of 23 November.
Adding to the problems caused by the siege are those created by the political divisions between the
Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the Hamas Authority in Gaza. For example, Gaza’s
Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU), which is not controlled by Hamas, is supposed to
receive funds from the World Bank via the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) in Ramallah to pay for
fuel to run the pumps for Gaza’s sewage system. Since June, the PWA has refused to hand over those
funds, perhaps because it feels that a functioning sewage system would benefit Hamas. I don’t know
whether the World Bank has attempted to intervene, but meanwhile UNRWA is providing the fuel,
although they have no budget for it. The CMWU has also asked Israel’s permission to import 200 tons
of chlorine, but by the end of November it had received only 18 tons - enough for one week of
chlorinated water. By mid-December Gaza City and the north of Gaza had access to water only six
hours every three days.
According to the World Health Organisation, the political divisions between Gaza and the West Bank
are also having a serious impact on drug stocks in Gaza. The West Bank Ministry of Health (MOH) is
responsible for procuring and delivering most of the pharmaceuticals and medical disposables used in
Gaza. But stocks are at dangerously low levels. Throughout November the MOH West Bank was
turning shipments away because it had no warehouse space, yet it wasn’t sending supplies on to Gaza
in adequate quantities. During the week of 30 November, one truck carrying drugs and medical
supplies from the MOH in Ramallah entered Gaza, the first delivery since early September.
The breakdown of an entire society is happening in front of us, but there is little international response
beyond UN warnings which are ignored. The European Union announced recently that it wanted to
strengthen its relationship with Israel while the Israeli leadership openly calls for a large-scale invasion
of the Gaza Strip and continues its economic stranglehold over the territory with, it appears, the not-sotacit
support of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah – which has been co-operating with Israel on a
number of measures. On 19 December Hamas officially ended its truce with Israel, which Israel said it
wanted to renew, because of Israel’s failure to ease the blockade.
How can keeping food and medicine from the people of Gaza protect the people of Israel? How can the
impoverishment and suffering of Gaza’s children - more than 50 per cent of the population - benefit
anyone? International law as well as human decency demands their protection. If Gaza falls, the West
Bank will be next.
Sara Roy teaches at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and is the author of Failing Peace:
Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.
Sara Roy
London Review of Books
1.1.2009
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/roy_01_.html
Israel’s siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt
designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both
sides had violated the agreement before, this incursion was on a different scale. Hamas responded by
firing rockets into Israel and the violence has not abated since then. Israel’s siege has two fundamental
goals. One is to ensure that the Palestinians there are seen merely as a humanitarian problem, beggars
who have no political identity and therefore can have no political claims. The second is to foist Gaza
onto Egypt. That is why the Israelis tolerate the hundreds of tunnels between Gaza and Egypt around
which an informal but increasingly regulated commercial sector has begun to form. The overwhelming
majority of Gazans are impoverished and officially 49.1 per cent are unemployed. In fact the prospect
of steady employment is rapidly disappearing for the majority of the population.
On 5 November the Israeli government sealed all the ways into and out of Gaza. Food, medicine, fuel,
parts for water and sanitation systems, fertiliser, plastic sheeting, phones, paper, glue, shoes and even
teacups are no longer getting through in sufficient quantities or at all. According to Oxfam only 137
trucks of food were allowed into Gaza in November. This means that an average of 4.6 trucks per day
entered the strip compared to an average of 123 in October this year and 564 in December 2005. The
two main food providers in Gaza are the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the
Near East (UNRWA) and the World Food Programme (WFP). UNRWA alone feeds approximately
750,000 people in Gaza, and requires 15 trucks of food daily to do so.
Between 5 November and 30 November, only 23 trucks arrived, around 6 per cent of the total needed;
during the week of 30 November it received 12 trucks, or 11 per cent of what was required. There were
three days in November when UNRWA ran out of food, with the result that on each of these days
20,000 people were unable to receive their scheduled supply. According to John Ging, the director of
UNRWA in Gaza, most of the people who get food aid are entirely dependent on it. On 18 December
UNRWA suspended all food distribution for both emergency and regular programmes because of the
blockade.
The WFP has had similar problems, sending only 35 trucks out of the 190 it had scheduled to cover
Gazans’ needs until the start of February (six more were allowed in between 30 November and 6
December). Not only that: the WFP has to pay to store food that isn’t being sent to Gaza. This cost
$215,000 in November alone. If the siege continues, the WFP will have to pay an extra $150,000 for
storage in December, money that will be used not to support Palestinians but to benefit Israeli business.
The majority of commercial bakeries in Gaza - 30 out of 47 - have had to close because they have run
out of cooking gas. People are using any fuel they can find to cook with. As the UN Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has made clear, cooking-gas canisters are necessary for generating the
warmth to incubate broiler chicks. Shortages of gas and animal feed have forced commercial producers
to smother hundreds of thousands of chicks. By April, according to the FAO, there will be no poultry
there at all: 70 per cent of Gazans rely on chicken as a major source of protein.
Banks, suffering from Israeli restrictions on the transfer of banknotes into the territory were forced to
close on 4 December. A sign on the door of one read: “Due to the decision of the Palestinian Finance
Authority, the bank will be closed today Thursday, 4.12.2008, because of the unavailability of cash
money, and the bank will be reopened once the cash money is available.”
The World Bank has warned that Gaza’s banking system could collapse if these restrictions continue.
All cash for work programmes has been stopped and on 19 November UNRWA suspended its cash
assistance programme to the most needy. It also ceased production of textbooks because there is no
paper, ink or glue in Gaza. This will affect 200,000 students returning to school in the new year. On 11
December, the Israeli defence minister, Ehud Barak, sent $25 million following an appeal from the
Palestinian prime minister, Salaam Fayad, the first infusion of its kind since October. It won’t even
cover a month’s salary for Gaza’s 77,000 civil servants.
On 13 November production at Gaza’s only power station was suspended and the turbines shut down
because it had run out of industrial diesel. This in turn caused the two turbine batteries to run down,
and they failed to start up again when fuel was received some ten days later. About a hundred spare
parts ordered for the turbines have been sitting in the port of Ashdod in Israel for the last eight months,
waiting for the Israeli authorities to let them through customs. Now Israel has started to auction these
parts because they have been in customs for more than 45 days. The proceeds are being held in Israeli
accounts.
During the week of 30 November, 394,000 litres of industrial diesel were allowed in for the power
plant: approximately 18 per cent of the weekly minimum that Israel is legally obliged to allow in. It
was enough for one turbine to run for two days before the plant was shut down again. The Gaza
Electricity Distribution Company said that most of the Gaza Strip will be without electricity for
between four and 12 hours a day. At any given time during these outages, over 65,000 people have no
electricity.
No other diesel fuel (for standby generators and transport) was delivered during that week, no petrol
(which has been kept out since early November) or cooking gas. Gaza’s hospitals are apparently
relying on diesel and gas smuggled from Egypt via the tunnels; these supplies are said to be
administered and taxed by Hamas. Even so, two of Gaza’s hospitals have been out of cooking gas
since the week of 23 November.
Adding to the problems caused by the siege are those created by the political divisions between the
Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the Hamas Authority in Gaza. For example, Gaza’s
Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU), which is not controlled by Hamas, is supposed to
receive funds from the World Bank via the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) in Ramallah to pay for
fuel to run the pumps for Gaza’s sewage system. Since June, the PWA has refused to hand over those
funds, perhaps because it feels that a functioning sewage system would benefit Hamas. I don’t know
whether the World Bank has attempted to intervene, but meanwhile UNRWA is providing the fuel,
although they have no budget for it. The CMWU has also asked Israel’s permission to import 200 tons
of chlorine, but by the end of November it had received only 18 tons - enough for one week of
chlorinated water. By mid-December Gaza City and the north of Gaza had access to water only six
hours every three days.
According to the World Health Organisation, the political divisions between Gaza and the West Bank
are also having a serious impact on drug stocks in Gaza. The West Bank Ministry of Health (MOH) is
responsible for procuring and delivering most of the pharmaceuticals and medical disposables used in
Gaza. But stocks are at dangerously low levels. Throughout November the MOH West Bank was
turning shipments away because it had no warehouse space, yet it wasn’t sending supplies on to Gaza
in adequate quantities. During the week of 30 November, one truck carrying drugs and medical
supplies from the MOH in Ramallah entered Gaza, the first delivery since early September.
The breakdown of an entire society is happening in front of us, but there is little international response
beyond UN warnings which are ignored. The European Union announced recently that it wanted to
strengthen its relationship with Israel while the Israeli leadership openly calls for a large-scale invasion
of the Gaza Strip and continues its economic stranglehold over the territory with, it appears, the not-sotacit
support of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah – which has been co-operating with Israel on a
number of measures. On 19 December Hamas officially ended its truce with Israel, which Israel said it
wanted to renew, because of Israel’s failure to ease the blockade.
How can keeping food and medicine from the people of Gaza protect the people of Israel? How can the
impoverishment and suffering of Gaza’s children - more than 50 per cent of the population - benefit
anyone? International law as well as human decency demands their protection. If Gaza falls, the West
Bank will be next.
Sara Roy teaches at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and is the author of Failing Peace:
Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.
Friday, June 18, 2010
I am the Palestinian Child
I am the Palestinian Child
Indigent
Hungry
Dependent on a slice of bread
Dependent on a swallow of water
I am the Palestinian Child
When beautiful flowers bloom
My Eyes do not see them
Instead of roses and flowers, I have taken weapons
Here are not any roses
Here are shots(bullets)
I am the Palestinian Child
I have forget to play
I have forget toys
I know only one game, to fight with slings
I have not see any toys except weapons
I am the Palestinian Child
As I was born, i have found myself in the middle of wars
I am drenched in bloody tears
I battle against the barbarity throne
I have never cost what playing is
My Play is to fighting
When you play you can be trapped
When I am trapped I become şehid
I am the Palestinian Child
When will you hear my Cry
When will you hear my Sigh
WHEN
There is no more time!
As well no time to think!
When you will begin with the school
I will be in the war
Without seeing any books!
Without knowing whats a bird, flower and affection!
I am the Palestinian Child
Tell me whats my sin?
When will you hear my Cry
When will you hear my Sigh
WHEN
In my Country I am external, imprisoned.
Forgotten to smile
From my eyes come no tears
From my eyes come blood
I want that you know that here are all Childs like that!
So that humanity does not die!
If we are brothers, come, so that we lauhg together
Let us play together
Let us live together
Novel-Cinta di Langit Gaza
Title: Cinta di Langit Gaza
Author: Riduan Mohamad Nor
ISBN: 9789834460679
Buku ini bertemakan misi membantu manusia yang dihembap derita. Melepasi garisan Gaza yang terbakar dan musnah adalah kemuncak kepada perjalanan hidup saya,kehadiran di bumi Isra’ itu sangat meruntun jiwa dan meninggalkan kesan yang sangat mendalam. Saya jatuh cinta dengan kebaikan penghuni Gaza yang santun dan berpegang kepada agama.
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