Monday, December 28, 2009

The Suffering In Gaza Continues One Year After The Israeli-Hamas War



One Year Since Israel's Offensive, Gaza Still Suffers -- Time Magazine

One year after Israel launched its three-week offensive in Gaza that killed more than 1,300 Palestinians and damaged or destroyed over 50,000 homes in a campaign aimed at stopping Hamas rocket fire, the survivors are still living in rubble. And it is not for want of money that thousands of residents of the coastal enclave remain homeless this winter: Moved by the plight of Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinians who were already reeling from a two-and-a-half year economic siege imposed by Israel with help from Egypt and the U.S. even before Israel's air and ground assault had begun, international donors earlier this year pledged over $4.5 billion to repair war damages. But that aid has failed to reach Gaza, according to Palestinians and relief agencies who accuse Israel of imposing Kafkaesque rules that bar entry to vital reconstruction materials and items as bizarre as glass, most schoolbooks, honey and family-sized tubs of margarine.

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More News On Gaza

Hamas's rhetoric of resistance masks new stance a year after Gaza war -- The Guardian
Mixed Emotions on Gaza War Anniversary -- Voice of America
Few houses rebuilt in Gaza one year after restoration -- China View
Fears remain after Gaza war -- Al Jazeera
Postwar Gaza: Scars frozen, Mideast at an impasse -- AP
UN gives mud brick huts to Gaza war homeless -- AFP
Israel and the coming war with Hamas...again -- Examiner
One Year Since Gaza War: No Access By the Numbers -- Relief Web
BACKGROUND: The Gaza war: facts and figures -- M&C

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