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repulsewarrior
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...too funny how the world turns, i had to include this story. (thanks halil) |
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repulsewarrior
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...the Turkish Navy did not intervene. |
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repulsewarrior
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“These figures show once more that the refugees continue to bear the brunt of economic hardship in the West Bank,” said UNRWA spokesman, Chris Gunness, “making the need for our emergency services greater than ever.”
http://reliefweb.int/node/464424
According to the report, the average nominal daily wage fell 2.3 per cent for employed refugees in the first half of 2011 relative to the second half of 2010. At US$ 25.8, it was 14.4 per cent below that of non-refugees. And with the average number of days worked per month falling 1.1 per cent, the average nominal monthly wage for refugees declined 3.4 per cent to US$ 565.4, or nearly 15 per cent below that of non-refugees. |
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The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have announced their intent to destroy and remove Al Muntar (Karni) crossing and attached structures. In the morning hours of Monday 2 January 2012, the IOF began destroying buildings at the crossing. This move will wipe out one of Gaza’s main economic gateways, which was used to provide the Strip with commodities and goods. It was also used to export Palestinian agricultural and industrial products from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank and the outside world.
http://reliefweb.int/node/468080
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights notes that closing and destroying the crossing restricts the operation of the crossings to Karm Abu Salim (Kerem Shalom), a crossing which is lacking in equipment and capacity. This crossing’s geographical position burdens customers and merchants with additional losses resulting from the long-distance transportation of goods, increased transfer fees, and increased loading and unloading fees. The working capacity of Karm Abu Salem is not sufficient for the level of commercial exchange between Gaza and the West Bank and between Gaza and Israel that would result in the event that the Israeli siege was lifted.
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights expresses its strongest condemnation of the destruction and removal of Al Muntar crossing. Al Mezan views this as a step towards entrenchment of the Israeli siege on Gaza. Destroying the crossing impedes the movement of goods and individuals inside and outside the Strip. On the commercial level, it must also be considered a step towards final separation between the Gaza Strip and Israel. |
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| Demolitions and Forced Displacement in the Occupied West Bank, January 2012 |
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Almost 1,100 Palestinians, over half children, were displaced due to home demolitions by Israeli forces in 2011, over 80% more than in 2010.
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4,200 additional people were affected by the demolition of structures related to their livelihoods.
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Israeli forces destroyed 622 structures owned by Palestinians, a 42% increase compared to 2010. This included 222 homes, 170 animal shelters, two classrooms and two mosques (one twice).
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The number of rainwater cisterns and pools destroyed in 2011 (46), was more than double last year (21), with tens of other related structures vulnerable to future demolition.
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Most demolitions (90%) and displacement (92%) occurred in already vulnerable farming and herding communities in Area C; thousands of others remain at-risk of displacement due to outstanding demolition orders. |
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| This update is issued by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) as coordinator of the Protection Cluster in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). It has been jointly prepared by members of the Protection Cluster Working Group in the Gaza Strip, including: UNICEF, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Al Dameer Association for Human Rights, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, UNESCO, UN Mine Action Team (UNMAT) and the Emergency Water and Sanitation Hygiene Group (EWASH). |
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Overview of the situation
Israeli authorities have continued to impose an illegal blockade on the Gaza Strip, placing physical and administrative restrictions on the movement of people and goods. This includes imposing a “buffer zone”, or an access restricted area (ARA) on land and sea. Restricted land includes the “no-go” zone, which covers the area between 0 - 500 metres from the Israeli fence where access is totally prohibited, and the “high risk” zone, which covers the area from 500 - 1,500 metres up to the fence. Along most of Gaza’s coast, the restricted area begins at three nautical miles (NM) from shore1.
It is estimated that the ARA covers approximately 62.6 square kilometres - approximately 35% of Gaza’s cultivable land and 85% of Gaza’s maritime area – making these areas totally or partially inaccessible to Palestinians2. Various forms of violence continue to be used by Israeli Forces to enforce these restrictions including: airstrikes, incursions, land levelling operations, firing of warning shots and the targeting with live ammunition Palestinian civilians living and working in these areas. In addition, Palestinian armed groups use the ARA for carrying out various military activities against Israeli targets. The overall situation in the ARA continues to have a negative impact on Palestinian civilian life and property in the Gaza Strip and is limiting the provision and access to essential services such as education, health, shelter, water and sanitation.
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...i include this report because of its source. |
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| "If the power plant does not resume its work in the next days, some hospitals will be left without electricity," Mahmud Daher, officer-in-charge of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Gaza, told IRIN. Gaza's only power plant was forced to shut down on 14 February due to a lack of fuel, which has previously been imported in amounts of up to one million litres a day from Egypt |
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| For now at least, drinking water could be supplied to the entire population. "But if things continue for another three or four days, we could also face a serious problem here," he added. |
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| "People are very frustrated. They have a government that cares little and puts responsibility on the shoulders of everyone else but not on itself. The current crisis was created through dependence on unreliable tunnels, a system in danger of collapsing at any time," a humanitarian aid worker from Gaza, who asked to remain anonymous, told IRIN. |
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