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Posts Tagged ‘siege’

Gaza’s sewage ‘tsunami’

By Haitham Sabbah • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Newswire, Palestine

By Jeremy Bowen
BBC Middle East editor
A five-month-old baby lay on a blanket in the shade of a hut made of metal sheets.
Thin tree branches, with leaves and twigs intact, were laced around the ends of the hut to insulate it against the hot wind that blows into the sand dunes, rolling away to the border [...]



In Gaza: No shoe nor a drop of fuel

By Haitham Sabbah • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

By Sameh A. Habeeb*, via: Gaza Today
Siege imposed on the Gaza strip has become the first concern for Palestinian citizens who live in the biggest jail ever in this world. Those civilians are severely suffering from the Israeli collective punishment policy which influences them day and night in all life facets.
Many direct consequences and repercussions [...]