Some of the drawings and such are absolutely incredible!
"RADIO STATION SET UP FOR MEDICAL EMERGENCIES IN GAZA"
"by Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY,- “I am bleeding uncontrollably, I need an ambulance.” That was not a call to emergency services, it was an appeal broadcast live on radio in Gaza City.
Who knows whether there will ever be an ambulance or not. But this way the ambulance services still hear the appeal broadcast on Al-Iman FM Radio Station, one of few independent radio stations in Gaza. And if the emergency services cannot help, someone else who hears the appeal might.
The ambulance dispatcher announces he cannot get the ambulance to the man. An Israeli bulldozer is blocking the road, and an Israeli tank on a hilltop has been firing at the ambulance, he says. Nobody can say if anyone else got to help the man. But at least his SOS could have been heard.
Appeals again went on air after the Friday attacks on Bureij refugee camp, where the death toll climbed to 16 by the weekend. The deaths included six children among nine people killed Friday. Again, ambulance crews confirmed they could not reach many of the injured. But the appeals were made on radio for all to hear.
A man called from east of Jabaliya refugee camp asking for an ambulance for his wife about to deliver. The radio host asked his location, and that of Israeli tanks. “I can’t look from the window to see,” he said. “They will shoot me if I do.”
A lady called to ask an ambulance to clear the remains of a body lying on the door. IPS confirmed later that it was the body of Abdelrazek Nofal, who was 19. He was blown to bits by an Israeli tank shell.
Someone else called from Bureij asking for ambulance, and for food and water. “My mother needs to be in hospital urgently,” he called the radio station to say. Another difficult mission, with the Israeli troops patrolling the area.
The appeals are heard on radio day after day. No one can say what follows the appeals in each case. But the live broadcasts on the radio can be a lifeline – or at the least, a line of hope. Where emergency services and aid agencies are not listening in, the radio then calls them.
“It brings tears to my eyes,” says radio host Khaled al-Sharqawi. “I can sometimes hear shooting, and women and children screaming, asking for ambulances, and the ambulances cannot reach them.”
Emergency services keep the radio on, if only to go in when it’s safe to bring out bodies. On one recent mission, said Ahmed Abu Sall, who works as a volunteer medical worker, “we were shot at by an Israeli tank. Two bullets hit the wheels.”
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Did you get all that, readers?! That was a tough post to read!!
So are these (although the drawing accompanying the first is inspirational):
(My emphasis)
"THE STREET URCHINS OF PALESTINE"
"Palestinian Children Forced onto Street" by Mel Frykberg
The deteriorating economic situation in the Palestinian territories has forced many Palestinian children to leave school and take up menial work in an effort to try and help their families survive economically.
This Middle East Times journalist has traveled through both the West Bank and Gaza and is regularly accosted by young children at checkpoints hawking a variety of goods from food and refreshments to plastic toys and kitchen implements.
“Please madam only two shekels” (about 45 U.S. cents) pleaded one wide-eyed youngster. He was bedecked in torn and grubby clothing as his grimy hand offered a few school utensils at the Qalandia checkpoint, which separates Ramallah from Jerusalem.
However other children, who are a little more fortunate in that they are able to still attend school, are also obliged to spend hours partaking in back-breaking labor when they should be doing what children all over the world do, studying, playing with their friends, or engaging in sports.
And that is the saddest thing of all -- other than the dead children and the endless occupation and sieges!
One 16 year old joined a group of friends at the al-Hawawer Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron to help support his 11-member family.
Unemployment in the West Bank stands at just under 30 percent.
Subhi goes to al-Hawawer checkpoint every morning, dragging his steel handcart behind him. He competes with other boys to get two or three shekels a time for carrying luggage for travelers.
Subhi said he leaves home at daybreak. He goes to school first, then to the checkpoint. By the time he gets back home in the evening, he is completely worn out. “My studies have been negatively affected. I do not have enough time to study. I think it is useless,” he said.
Even more disturbing are the children who sift through the makeshift refuse dumps that dot the scenic West Bank in the absence of regulated garbage tips. These are products themselves of Israeli security movement restrictions and the illegal and unregulated dumping of waste in the territory by Israeli companies as a cheaper means of waste disposal than in Israel proper.
Billows of smoke mushroom above some of these waste disposal sites as burning garbage has become a quick but environmentally unsound way of disposing of garbage.
Yeah, it is strange how Israel NEVER receives any crap at all for spoiling the environment -- and yet the rest of the world is harangued over it and the Zionist-controlled media loves environmental protesters!
How about that, huh?
But in so doing carcinogenic particles are released into the air, which Palestinians in their vicinities breathe in on a daily basis. The joint Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian environmental group, Friends of the Earth Middle East, has warned that the burning of waste is the biggest health threat to Palestinians.
Just another TOOL of GENOCIDE!!!
This journalist witnessed Palestinian children scrambling over waste dumps rummaging through waste remnants searching for pieces of scrap metal, plastic and wood and other salvageable items that could possibly be sold in an endeavor to keep the wolf from the door.
I exhaled "Oh my God," and then words failed me.
The children earn the paltry amount of about $1 a bundle when they sell the recycled scrap on to businessmen, who act as middlemen before selling it on to Israeli recycling companies. Although this amount is little, it can mean the difference between eating or going to bed on an empty stomach.
I'm horrified by the whole thing, readers.
The occupation, the suffering, the slaughter!
END the FRIKKIN' OCCUPATION NOW!
CUT OFF ISRAEL and say NOT ONE MORE CENT until they LIFT the SIEGE and enter into GOOD-FAITH NEGOTIATIONS!
I guess we'll be waiting to the end of time (or the Zionist regime) for that.
In Ramallah’s vegetable markets numerous young boys also try to make a living by transporting the groceries of shoppers in supermarket trolleys for the equivalent of 50 U.S. cents. An impractical affair as the streets of the de facto Palestinian capital are very crowded with pedestrians and the temporary stalls of hawkers, making it easier to walk while carrying groceries.
Begging has also become a significant social problem, with children as young as three standing at traffic lights for hours in the rain or baking sun. They beg for change or sell cigarette lighters and batteries. At night they sleep in fields, cemeteries, mosques, drainage canals or on streets. Their earnings are often taken by thieves or shady middlemen, and some are sexually abused or forced to sell drugs.
And it just gets worse and worse and worse -- while the "world community" remains silent.
The precarious existence of Palestinians, particularly children, and their inability to enjoy a sound education was sufficiently bad several years ago that Arnold Vercken from the U.N.’s World Food Program commented: “Many people are now living on only bread and the cheapest vegetables, usually those left unsold at the end of the day.
“We are also very concerned about the growing numbers of people, often children, rummaging through garbage cans,” Vercken said.
The situation today, and especially in Gaza, is even more critical following the international embargo and Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip in the wake of Hamas’ take over of the territory in June 2007.
You mean the Israeli and western WAR CRIME?
According to the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics, 40,000 children under 18 work in the occupied Palestinian territories – 73 percent of whom are forced to work due to severe financial conditions.
And while the education of Palestinian children has suffered, some children have been prepared to pay an even higher price.
Some have risked their lives to breach the Israeli separation barrier as they try to reach Israeli cities and town to do the unpleasant manual labor that Israelis refuse to do.
The Palestinian kids are Israel's version of illegal immigrants?
Time to start making the Zionists swab their own al-Qaeda's for a change!
This has resulted in some children being shot dead or wounded as they climbed the wall or arrested and then sent back home. But so desperate is their plight that they often return as soon as they can."
Wow, I commented throughout that whole piece.
And the OUTRAGES NEVER END...
"ISRAELIS FEAST WHILE GAZANS STARVE"
".... The shops are full of frantic shoppers buying special items for the special feast. Children are already out of school so they too can help in the preparations. Plans are being made for vacations, day trips, picnics… all the fun things associated with the Festival…. truly a Festival of Freedom, when all are finally free.
But are they? Just meters away there is starvation. There is illness. There is death. As one side of the wall celebrates Freedom, the other side is burying their murdered children.... "
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"NOT PUTTING APARTHEID ON THE MAP"
"Israel has launched a new PR Programme throughout Europe to promote tourism…. Come see this… Come see that….
BUT WE WON’T SHOW YOU THIS…
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Making you click on that link to see it.
I'll post most of this important one, though.
"NO TIME FOR PEACE OR JIMMY CARTER ON ISRAEL’S BUSY AGENDA"
"Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, broker of the first Israeli-Arab peace treaty, is getting a cool reception on his latest mission to the region: Israeli leaders are shunning him for accusing Israel of apartheid and for planning to meet with the head of the violently anti-Israel Hamas group.
A schedule released by the U.S.-based Carter Center showed no plans for the former president to meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni or Defense Minister Ehud Barak during this week’s visit in Israel, which was scheduled to begin Sunday.
The above is taken from the following Associated Press report…
Carter comes to Israel on peace mission, but finds himself shunned
Carter comes to Israel on peace mission, but finds himself shunned
Just shows to go you how much interest Israel really has in achieving Peace…. it’s obvious they don’t."
Nothing to add to that.
