Scraping by in Gaza
Over six months after the end of war with Israel, life in Gaza still remains difficult with thousands living in tents.
Reuters
Published
April 16, 2015
Life in Gaza remains difficult as thousands of Palestinians seek shelter in tents near destroyed homes; while numerous others still try to manage in damaged buildings.
Over six months after the end of a 50-day war with Israel last summer, the enclave is still under a tight Israeli-Egyptian blockade. Little of the $5.4 billion pledged for Gaza's reconstruction by international donors last October has arrived.
A youth feeds his younger brother. |
A girl is reflected in a fragment of mirror. |
A woman is seen through a piece of metal at her house. |
A woman washes up in her kitchen. |
A girl walks on top of the rubble of her family’s house. |
Children throw garbage at a dump site. |
A boy jumps into the Mediterranean Sea. |
A woman cooks at her house. |
A boy is pictured through the window of a house. |
A boy looks through a window. |
A family shares lunch at home. |
A boy sells sweets on Gaza City beach on the Mediterranean Sea. |
Palestinian boys play at their family house. |
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CYRUS
Apr 16, 2015 11:38pm
If the Palestinians under Yassir Arafat had not begun a campaign of bombing city buses in Israel Palestinians would still have jobs inside Israel. The Egyptian army fought for the Palestinians three times and the Palestinians attack Egyptian patrols.
Hamas took over the Gaza strip which had never received more than a minimum of Egyptian concern and monetary support. It had always been a NATO project. Egyptians have grown tired of Palestinian antics. Palestinians are not allowed visas or work permits in Egypt. Palestinians celebrated in the streets waving their flags when Osama bin Laden brought down the World Trade Center in New York City.
No one blames the children, but their parents and grandparents had a great deal to do with their present situation. Hundreds of thousands more Palestinians could have gotten visas to go to the United States but the women wanted to remain at home with their mothers, sisters, aunts, friends and grandmothers.
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Anon
Apr 17, 2015 01:17am
Where is UN body and where are world powers talking big humanity ? Very pathetic conditions.
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raja farhat abbas
Apr 17, 2015 08:39am
Nice and sad and same time.
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ibby
Apr 17, 2015 11:22am
Would it not be possible for Israel to relocate some Palestinians to another country and Israel help that host country to establish a modern city along with universities and other transfer of high tech industries like electronics and computer sciences. Pakistan can offer this sort of deal why not. They will be helping fellow Muslims as well as getting high tech help from Israel and possibly US.
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deva
Apr 17, 2015 11:37am
@Anon all muslim countries are in same position where ever religious things take priority. except few oil rich nation
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hyat
Apr 17, 2015 11:39am
everyone know who is right but close eyes.
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Arindam Dutta
Apr 17, 2015 11:54am
misleading caption ,pics are from yemen
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ratnajit
Apr 17, 2015 01:40pm
A hungry stomach knowns no religion.
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Muhammad Saad
Apr 17, 2015 04:22pm
@CYRUS , why are you not accounting the move of Israelis from the very start. they do not belong to the land, in which they are living. they were the refugees in the start and now you are talking about Palestinian to behave in order to get job in Israel. You people can start history with your interest. no one even care about the root cause of such distress situation. alas on the double standard of the World
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Muhammad Fazeel
Apr 17, 2015 06:21pm
@ CYRUS. Dude I think you should review the history once again. Start it from Jerusalem, as it is a sacred place for all three biggest religions for over 10,000 years ago. So do not calculate it from just the bombing of some back decades, or from the Jews invasion as stated by (Muhammad Saad).
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Sami
Apr 17, 2015 06:40pm
Repercussions of hyperbolic self determined and absurd esteem. Had they accepted the fact they would have been in a much better and acceptable status.
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MHamza
Apr 18, 2015 07:34am
@CYRUS Not agree.... Look to the Ground realities
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Saira
Apr 18, 2015 07:39pm
@Arindam Dutta it is convenient to ignore others tragedies, isn't it?
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rabz
Apr 18, 2015 08:27pm
Once again where is human rights watch?
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aslam shaikh
Apr 19, 2015 11:43am
Hopefully one day in future humans will look back and see what happened in this era. But then it will be too late for countless lives lost, countless families destroyed. We are all human beings and we should condone what is happening there.
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Vijay
Apr 19, 2015 04:39pm
So why KSA, Jordan and other gulf countries not helping their fellow Muslims in Gaza?
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Vijay
Apr 19, 2015 04:40pm
@Anon There is no oil in Gaza, so nobody cares!
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Haider Rehman
Apr 20, 2015 01:10am
Despite all this, the children smile...
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Haider Rehman
Apr 20, 2015 01:12am
@CYRUS
Yes and taking over your country and forcing you to live in virtual concentration camps is all good.
What would you do if your country is taken over by a powerful invader? Even if you were weak, you would fight. That is what Palestenians are doing. World will remember Israel as another Nazi Germany.
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Mahmud
Apr 21, 2015 09:17am
@Haider Rehman And how is this different from the situation in Yemen? The Yemenis are living no better than the Gazans at the monent, and their lives are about to get even more miserable.
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Avinash
Apr 21, 2015 01:07pm
@Haider Rehman - even if they get Independence, their living conditions shall remain mostly the same. Israelis converted deserts into beautiful settlements and a booming economy and the Palestinians could have prospered too with their enterprises. But instead they were more interested in creating a Dar-Al-Islam than economic prosperity. ? Name one non-oil producing Islamic country doing well.
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Shumail
Apr 21, 2015 05:08pm
@CYRUS When your country and land and houses are stolen from you bit by bit, no sensible being on this earth will remain silent and do nothing. They will rise against the sheer cruelty!
people who are suffering the most in Palestine are those who have nothing to do with these wars. If nothing else, Egypt should have opened its gates to these poor Palestinians on humanitarian grounds because nobody expects an ounce of humanity from Israel.
The world watches silently every time they are killed and then when Israel's killing spree is about to end, protests begin and end in the same way.
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Shumail
Apr 21, 2015 05:08pm
Everyone forgets Palestine! The least this stupid democracies who support these wars militarily and monetarily can do is to make good on their promises to rehabilitate Gaza once Israel is done destroying it so people there can have a little time of peace where they don't have to scavenge for morsels of food and don't have to wish for water and electricity to be restored.
Your utterly condescending comment makes me sick! humanity is dead. And you are one of its prime example.
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Swabhiman
Apr 21, 2015 06:27pm
Arabs not coming forward to help their co-religionists. Palestinians are not allowed to settle in other Muslim countries. What kind of brotherhood it is?
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