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The situation in Gaza

oneworld2

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Some reports on the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza

A report on the effectiveness of the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism by the charity OXFAM

Two and a half years on, vital water sector recovery and development remains hampered and fully controlled by the Government of Israel, demonstrating the extent to which Israeli government policies continue to undermine humanitarian response, cause de-development and exacerbate the separation of the Gaza Strip from the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the world.
This paper analyses the effectiveness of the GRM in improving access to water, health and sanitation services, assesses the roles and responsibilities of a range of actors and identifies urgent steps in relation to the GRM that should be taken to contribute to the development of a just, effective and sustainable water sector in Gaza. [/quote]

https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/tr...tion-mechanism

Save the Children

One million children in Gaza are living in dire conditions. Many celebrated Eid in the dark without electricity. A UN report in 2012[1] said Gaza would be unlivable by 2020. Save the Children considers Gaza to be unlivable now.

Save the Children urges Israel to lift the Gaza blockade and for Palestinian and Israeli authorities to provide basic services to the residents of Gaza. the international community has failed to react to the suffering of Palestinian children in Gaza. A decade of isolation had reduced power available to households to just eight hours per day. Now families are lucky if they get two hours of electricity per day. Far too many get nothing at all.
https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/n...ble-conditions

more to follow
 
Cutting the electricity

AI said:
“For 10 years the siege has unlawfully deprived Palestinians in Gaza of their most basic rights and necessities. Under the burden of the illegal blockade and three armed conflicts, the economy has sharply declined and humanitarian conditions have deteriorated severely. The latest power cuts risk turning an already dire situation into a full-blown humanitarian catastrophe,” said Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International.
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https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/n...eed-to-lift-israels-10-year-illegal-blockade/
 
oneworld2 said:
Some reports on the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza

A report on the effectiveness of the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism by the charity OXFAM

Two and a half years on, vital water sector recovery and development remains hampered and fully controlled by the Government of Israel, demonstrating the extent to which Israeli government policies continue to undermine humanitarian response, cause de-development and exacerbate the separation of the Gaza Strip from the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the world.
This paper analyses the effectiveness of the GRM in improving access to water, health and sanitation services, assesses the roles and responsibilities of a range of actors and identifies urgent steps in relation to the GRM that should be taken to contribute to the development of a just, effective and sustainable water sector in Gaza.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/tr...tion-mechanism

Save the Children

One million children in Gaza are living in dire conditions. Many celebrated Eid in the dark without electricity. A UN report in 2012[1] said Gaza would be unlivable by 2020. Save the Children considers Gaza to be unlivable now.

Save the Children urges Israel to lift the Gaza blockade and for Palestinian and Israeli authorities to provide basic services to the residents of Gaza. the international community has failed to react to the suffering of Palestinian children in Gaza. A decade of isolation had reduced power available to households to just eight hours per day. Now families are lucky if they get two hours of electricity per day. Far too many get nothing at all.
https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/n...ble-conditions

more to follow
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Links don't work. rest of the stuff is typical whitewashed Hamas propaganda.

Pray tell, why is Gaza infrastructure doing so badly? If resources were not siphoned away from civilian projects to military ones, how much of the gap would be bridged? If corruption was proportionately reduced, how much more would have been available?

The sleight of hand here is that any and all shortcomings are shunted over to Israeli causality, and the advocacy couldn't give two farts about Israelis being protected from Hamas.
 
oneworld2 said:
Cutting the electricity



https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/n...eed-to-lift-israels-10-year-illegal-blockade/
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Sorry, didn't Abbas ask for this? And don't the Palestinians owe Israel a gajillion dollars for the power they have already used but not paid for?

Again, that Hamas has decided to squander the resources available to them and divert them to trying to murder Jews and paying to get "protesters" to the lines to use them as cover for their attacks, perhaps they wouldn't find themselves in the situation they are in today.

Also, in retrospect, maybe you should remind them their rocket war against Israel was a mistake...
 
Those rockets and tunnels and arms do seem to cost a lot of money, I guess the logical deduction is that the government there is doing a crappy job, but heavens forbid we actually assign blame to those it belongs with.
 
CJ 2.0 said:
Links don't work. rest of the stuff is typical whitewashed Hamas propaganda.

Pray tell, why is Gaza infrastructure doing so badly? If resources were not siphoned away from civilian projects to military ones, how much of the gap would be bridged? If corruption was proportionately reduced, how much more would have been available?

The sleight of hand here is that any and all shortcomings are shunted over to Israeli causality, and the advocacy couldn't give two farts about Israelis being protected from Hamas.
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CJ 2.0:

The links provided by oneworld2 worked fine for me. And Hamas must indeed be very powerful if it can control the advocacy of Oxfam and Save the Children from afar. Perhaps you could explain why Israel refuses to let Palestinians have widespread access to photovoltaic solar power generation infrastructure which the world has tried to donate to it and has gone so far as to seize attempted imports of such technology into Gaza?

Then please explain why Israel chose to use its military might to de-house so many Gazans in the last decade of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By this I do not mean the selective bulldozing of targetted Palestinian homes but the wholesale levelling and destruction of entire Gazan neighbourhoods by Israeli artillery fire and air strikes during various military operations conducted by Israel as it "mowed the grass" in Gaza.

This is clearly a policy of collective punishment by military means for the continued Gazan Palestinian resistance (including but not limited to terrorism) against Israeli military and political policy and thus the Israeli state shares prominently with the PLO, Fatah and Hamas in its role as a causal agent of Gaza's collective misery.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
Evilroddy said:
CJ 2.0:

The links provided by oneworld2 worked fine for me. And Hamas must indeed be very powerful if it can control the advocacy of Oxfam and Save the Children from afar. Perhaps you could explain why Israel refuses to let Palestinians have widespread access to photovoltaic solar power generation infrastructure which the world has tried to donate to it and has gone so far as to seize attempted imports of such technology into Gaza?

Then please explain why Israel chose to use its military might to de-house so many Gazans in the last decade of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By this I do not mean the selective bulldozing of targetted Palestinian homes but the wholesale levelling and destruction of entire Gazan neighbourhoods by Israeli artillery fire and air strikes during various military operations conducted by Israel as it "mowed the grass" in Gaza.

This is clearly a policy of collective punishment by military means for the continued Gazan Palestinian resistance (including but not limited to terrorism) against Israeli military and political policy and thus the Israeli state shares prominently with the PLO, Fatah and Hamas in its role as a causal agent of Gaza's collective misery.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
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1. It’s not hamas. It’s a general coopting and anti israel bias.

2. Show me re the solar stuff. Do you mean infrastructure built without permission in the WB or somethjng else.

3. It isn’t collective punishment. It is managing the risks created by the Palestinians having a terrorist organization which has fired tens of thousands of rockets running that territory. Sucks but makes perfect sense.

And not sure why the links didn’t work for me. They both led to 404 landing page errors.


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CJ 2.0 said:
2. Show me re the solar stuff. Do you mean infrastructure built without permission in the WB or somethjng else.
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CJ 2.0 I stand corrected on the seizure of Solar panels by Israeli authorities as the Dutch panels which were seized were destined for the West Bank and not the Gaza Strip. My apologies for my lapse of memory. However Israel is nonetheless thwarting the Gazans from developing their own solar power infrastructure. Israel will not allow private Gazans to buy and install solar panels easily and tries to limit any solar development to corporate entities who partner with international organisations like the World Bank and who are thus easily controlled by the threat of Israeli financial measures if they don't do what Israel wants with the power. Furthermore, Israel is imposing excessive red-tape and expenses on such projects in an effort to dissuade such projects or to slow them down and has even gone so far as to block Israeli companies from building solar farms in Israel to supply Gazan power requirements.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news...would-ve-relieved-gaza-power-crisis-1.5964406

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2012/mar/14/palestinians-prepare-to-lose-solar-panels

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
I'm not so sure about the infrastructure doing bad.
Seems like the underground infrastructure in Gaza is something for the world to look up to.
 
Unemployment rages on

Gaza’s debility, carefully planned and successfully executed, has left almost half the labour force without any means to earn a living. Unemployment – especially youth unemployment – is the defining feature of life. It now hovers around 42 per cent (it has been higher), but for young people (between the ages of 15 and 29) it stands at 60 per cent. Everyone is consumed by the need to find a job or some way of earning money. ‘Salaries control people’s minds,’ one resident said.
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n12/sara-roy/if-israel-were-smart
 
oneworld2 said:
NGO monitor lol the group set up to undermine just human rights organisation

How are they doing with that biased wiki editing ?
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lol. Yes an organization that actually holds these biased organizations accountable by shedding light on what they actually do and how they do it.

I know you don't like that sort of thing, but not much I can do to help you with that.
 
oneworld2 said:
Unemployment rages on



https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n12/sara-roy/if-israel-were-smart
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Damn. Probably shouldn't have launched thousands of rockets at Israel and caused Israel to choke off their access to their most important market.

Who would have thought that the actions of Gaza and its government have actual consequences? Apparently not the "pro Palestinians", who seem to view them mostly as mindless automatons that must be shielded at all costs from any responsibility for their collective decisions.
 
NO1 said:
Hamas in response - https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Hamas-turns-away-truckloads-of-Israeli-humanitarian-aid-destined-for-Gaza-556565


Hamas hates Israel more than he cared about his people. Wasting all his budget on terror activity when his people are starving is more than sad.
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But they not only get a pass, I’m sure the sentiment on the “pro-Palestinian” side is who can blame them for not being willing to take needed medical supplies for their human shields and terror operatives from the Israelis.

Sure the Palestinians are more than happy for their leaders and their families to avail themselves of Israeli assistance, but they obviously and transparently would rather their people died so they could blame their deaths on Israel (which was the entire point of this in the event that they failed to breach the border and massacre Jewish communities).


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CJ 2.0 said:
Damn. Probably shouldn't have launched thousands of rockets at Israel and caused Israel to choke off their access to their most important market.

Who would have thought that the actions of Gaza and its government have actual consequences? Apparently not the "pro Palestinians", who seem to view them mostly as mindless automatons that must be shielded at all costs from any responsibility for their collective decisions.
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Damn those Jews for not buying goods from Gaza while Gazans lob rockets at them!
 
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