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Malgré la brève ouverture du poste-frontière, les Gazaouis atteints de cancer restent captifs | Middle East Eye | - Mohammed Omer | 12 mai 2016
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POSTE-FRONTIÈRE DE RAFAH, Territoires palestiniens occupés – Tenant vaguement ses papiers dans ses mains, Wafa Abunukira reste tranquillement assise avec son mari au poste-frontière. Ces 85 derniers jours, cette mère d’une cinquantaine d’années attendait un miracle, ou que s’ouvrent les portes.

« J’ai rempli une demande pour quitter [Gaza] par Israël, mais on ne nous a jamais accordé l’autorisation », a rapporté à Middle East Eye Wafa Abunukira, qui souffre d’un cancer et dont la vie dépend de traitements médicaux indisponibles dans les hôpitaux mal équipés de l’enclave palestinienne soumise au blocus.

Aujourd’hui, sa seule option est de quitter Gaza via le poste-frontière de Rafah avec l’Égypte. Lorsque les autorités égyptiennes ont annoncé que la frontière serait ouverte ce mercredi et ce jeudi, Wafa Abunukira était au nombre de ceux qui attendaient patiemment dès l’aube derrière les portes fermées.

Cependant, elle n’est pas la seule à souhaiter partir et seul un nombre restreint – généralement quelques centaines – de personnes sont autorisées à passer en Égypte chaque jour, même pendant les rares périodes où la frontière est ouverte. En tant que patiente atteinte d’un cancer, on pourrait penser qu’elle serait prioritaire, mais il n’en est rien.

Wafa fait partie des plus de 30 000 Palestiniens qui sont inscrits auprès du ministère de l’Intérieur pour voyager, la plupart sont des malades, des étudiants ou des titulaires de permis de séjour dans d’autres pays, selon Iyad al-Buzum, porte-parole de facto du ministère de l’Intérieur de Gaza.

Toddlers burn to death in Gaza blaze blamed on power cuts | Middle East Eye | Mohammed Omer |
Saturday 7 May 2016
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AL-SHATI REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza - The toddlers’ bed stands in the middle of the ash-scorched and smoke-stained room. Next to it lie the bodies of Yousra , aged three, Rahaf , aged two, and Naser al-Hindi , six months old, who all burnt to death here.

The three bodies are distorted and unrecognisable. A few scorched toys are scattered around them while their heartbroken father, Mohammed al-Hindi, looks on in shock, hardly able to accept they are really his children.

Walking through the once colourful small apartment in al-Shati, one of the poorest refugee camps in Gaza, it is almost impossible to tell which room was once the kitchen, the bedroom and the toilet because everything has melted into one.

When the building caught fire late on Friday night, no one living nearby was able to break in, with neighbours eventually smashing a hole through the wall in a failed attempt to rescue the children.

The deaths of the children has enraged local residents who believe that the fire is a cruel consequence of the impact of the decade-long blockade by Israel and Egypt and a local power struggle between Hamas and Fatah which has made living conditions increasingly intolerable.

The incident has also reminded Gazans of the case of a family in the eastern city of Shejayeh who were burnt to death in a fire caused by a candle three years ago.

Mahmood Dhier, 32, his wife Samar, and their four children, Mahmoud, six, Nabil, five, Farah, four, and Qamar, four months, all died in the blaze.

#Palestine_assassinée

« L’odeur de la mort est omniprésente » : le blocus pousse les Gazaouis au suicide | Middle East Eye | Mohammed Omer | 21 avril 2016
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(...) Fadel Abu Hein, professeur de psychologie à l’université al-Aqsa de Gaza, a déclaré à MEE que certains de ceux qui se sont suicidés ont écrit des messages pointant du doigt explicitement le blocus ; un homme a par exemple écrit : « Ouvrez les portes de notre avenir ou nous mettrons fin à [nos jours] de nos propres mains. »

« Le chômage et la pauvreté sont les deux piliers importants qui font que les êtres humains perdent de vue l’importance de leur existence », a précisé le professeur.

« Les jeunes souffrant de dépression, de frustration et de désespoir, qui ressentent que leur vie ne leur apporte rien, peuvent facilement se convaincre qu’y mettre fin est plus facile qu’être totalement contrôlé par les autres. »

Richard Falk, ancien rapporteur spécial des Nations unies sur la situation des droits de l’homme dans les territoires palestiniens, a expliqué à MEE que l’augmentation des suicides à Gaza était un indicateur du « désespoir » enduré par de nombreuses personnes dans leur vie quotidienne.

« J’éprouve depuis longtemps un sentiment d’admiration et d’inspiration devant la résilience spirituelle du peuple de Gaza face à l’épreuve prolongée imposée par la politique israélienne d’occupation, de blocus et de recours à une force excessive », a déclaré Falk.

« Cette volonté de vivre aussi bien que possible dans les circonstances les plus difficiles semble menacée par cette augmentation alarmante des suicides, qui semble exprimer un profond désespoir, une perte de tout espoir dans l’avenir et une situation de démoralisation totale. »(...)

#Gaza #Palestine #suicide

« Mon autre jambe est là » : deux amis handicapés partagent chaussures et quotidien à Gaza | Middle East Eye
par Mohammed Omer | 10 mars 2016
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BANDE DE GAZA – Le printemps est dans l’air, et il est temps pour Adli Ebied et Mansour al-Qerem d’acheter une nouvelle paire de chaussures. Ils descendent de la moto qu’ils partagent devant un des magasins de chaussures de Gaza, s’avancent au milieu de la boutique à l’aide de leur béquilles, et entreprennent avec entrain d’essayer les derniers modèles.

Il ne leur faut pas longtemps pour se décider pour une paire dont ils partageront le prix. L’un prend la chaussure gauche, tandis que l’autre prend la droite.

Adli, 24 ans, et Mansour, 26 ans, ont quelque chose de très spécial en commun : ils ont tous deux perdu une jambe au cours des attaques israéliennes contre Gaza en 2011.(...)

Gaza protests: ’Each time we heard a bullet, a protestor fell’ | Middle East Eye | Mohammed Omer |
Sunday 11 October 2015
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(...) “Usually when we protest, the Israeli troops issue warning shots first,” the teenager, who did not want to give his name, told MEE.

“This time, the soldiers are shooting directly, and each time we heard a bullet, a protestor fell,” he said as he watched his friend’s body being transferred from the motorcycle into an ambulance nearby.

Several Palestinian journalists confirmed the phenomena, saying that they believed live bullets were fired at specific targets.

A survivor of Friday’s protests, 18-year-old Jihad Mohsen, told MEE he was standing right next to fellow youths as they were gunned down and killed.

He said there were about 30 people on the frontline, close to the fence, just tens of meters away from Israeli troops who stood sheltered behind some man-made sand barriers, dug out for protection by Israeli bulldozers.

Israeli soldiers stand on the Israeli side of the border (MEE / Mohammed Asad)

“We were carrying our Palestinian flags, and throwing stones in retaliation, and suddenly the live ammunition was directly hitting us, at which point [19-year-old] Mohammed al-Reqeb was shot,” Mohsen said.

“There was no occasion where a bullet was fired without someone being hit and falling - it was deliberate, they were aiming directly at us,” he told MEE.

Medical staff treating the wounded at Khan Younis’s European Hospital told MEE that they were shocked at the numbers of victims with precise bullet wounds, which they say appeared to be deliberately aimed not to injure, but to kill or cause the maximum amount of damage.

An on-duty doctor at the hospital reception said he felt the injuries were “designed” to create patients with long-term disabilities.

Another doctor at Gaza European hospital who is not authorised to speak by his ministry, told MEE that some of the wounds were from snipers, who knew exactly what part of the body to hit, to kill instantly.

He said that these kinds of injuries were rare and that Gaza medical crews were more accustomed to receiving patients with “indiscriminate wounds” that were caused by shelling or Israeli air strikes.(...)

#Palestine #occupation #colonisation #meurtres

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We are neither Hamas nor Fatah : we are a generation that demands to live in dignity ▻https://shar.es/1ubUzA #GazaUnderAttack"

À l’origine en anglais, traduit par Bing
Nous ne sommes ni du Hamas ni du Fatah : nous sommes une génération qui demande à vivre dans la dignité

Gaza, Gulag on the Mediterranean - The New York Times
By MOHAMMED OMERAUG. 24, 2015
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GAZA CITY — At this time last year, as the missiles and bombs rained down in Israel’s lopsided seven-week war against Gaza, I wrote about our struggle to survive during the holy month of Ramadan. This year, another Ramadan has passed, Eid al-Fitr is over and the reality on the ground has changed very little.

The same dreadful conditions are creating desperation among Gaza’s inhabitants, whose lives are terrorized by war and stunted by the long blockade of this spit of land, 25 miles long and six miles wide. The only difference now is the absence of the smell of gunfire and explosives, and of the smoke trails from missiles fired by Israeli F-16s crashing down among civilian homes.

I recently visited some of the most heavily damaged areas of Gaza, starting with eastern Rafah, where massive destruction is still visible and bullet holes spatter the walls of houses. Up the road, in the half-ruined village of Khuzaa, the legacy of physical and emotional trauma has yet to be addressed.

International donors at a conference in Cairo last October pledged $5.4 billion to rebuild Gaza. Instead of permanent new homes, however, people in Khuzaa have received only prefabricated temporary shelters. When it rains, sewage leaks into rooms.

Farid al-Najjar, 56, whose orange-colored taxi was destroyed in the conflict, regards the Cairo conference as a joke. Reconstruction grants have not touched his life.

Traveling north to Shejaiya, the only sign of change is that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency — in a project funded by Sweden — has started removing the rubble. A year later, not one of the damaged or destroyed homes has been completely rebuilt.

Hassan Farraj, 61, stands in what is left of his house — the walls that remain are peppered with holes from automatic rifle fire and tank shells. The bare ground around the home resembles the shaven head of a vulnerable child, with no sign of anything growing back.

Everyone expects Israel to be back for another “trim,” or to “mow the grass,” or whatever deadly euphemism is in vogue the next time Israel deems it time to show us who really controls Gaza.

Muhammad #Dahlan found to be non-corrupt
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L’explication :

After filing charges of corruption against Muhammad Dahlan by the corrupt PA, a corrupt PA court found Dahlan to be non-corrupt, under pressures from the corrupt government of the UAE.

#Emirats_Arabes_unis

Des pluies torrentielles dévastent Gaza
vendredi 28 novembre 2014 - Mohammed Omer
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Ce n’est pas la première fois que Shadi Swerki est obligé de quitter sa maison touchée par l’inondation à al-Nafaq – une zone de basses-terres dans Gaza Ville qui est souvent la première à se trouver sous eau après de fortes chutes de pluies.

Il était minuit et Swerki n’a pas eu le choix : il a attrapé Amal, sa petite fille de 4 ans, et s’est mis à courir. Son épouse le suivait de près, portant leur fils Mohammed, 2 ans.

« Je n’ai pas le choix, nous ne pouvons lutter contre les eaux qui pénètrent dans nos maisons » » dit ce jeune père de 31 ans.

Aux premières heures de ce jeudi l’eau a déjà monté de 1,5 m et on attend encore de la pluie.

Les fortes averses ne permettent pas de rassembler beaucoup d’effets personnels : il faut partir en abandonnant vêtements et autres affaires dans la maison, tout en sachant que la plupart seront gâchés quand ils pourront rentrer. Tous les voisins sont eux aussi obligés d’évacuer rapidement en n’emportant qu’un strict minimum.

La scène n’est que trop familière. Ces départs en urgence, ils les ont vécus tant de fois cet été, pendant les 51 jours de l’agression israélienne. Une fois encore, on voit ces enfants qui pleurent, ces femmes et ces personnes âgées qui fuient dans les rues afin de trouver un abri – le spectacle est le même, que ce soit une fuite devant les eaux montantes ou les bombes israéliennes.

Les équipes de pompiers viennent assister à l’évacuation. Ils tentent d’aider les familles qui n’arrivent pas à quitter leur habitation assez vite. Mais tant de gens ont besoin d’aide et il y a peu d’équipements pour aider ceux qui sont en difficulté.

« Ma mère a dû fuir Shejayah pendant la guerre, mais maintenant c’est moi qui vais m’enfuir chez elle, pour avoir un abri » dit Swerki devant ses enfants qui tremblent de froid.

La section des pompiers a ordonné l’évacuation aux habitants d’al-Nafaq, mais beaucoup de gens n’ont nulle part où aller. Les écoles sont déjà pleines de familles à qui la guerre israélienne a fait perdre leur logement, tandis que les amis et les parents, qui ont déjà peu de place, abritent encore ceux qui ont été frappés le plus durement par la guerre.
Pour la plupart des familles déplacées du quartier d’al-Nafaq, la pluie vient de parachever ce que l’offensive n’avait pu accomplir : elle les déplace et les paralyse, les laissant sans rien sous le vent mordant de l’hiver.

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“The Damage is Beyond Imagination in Gaza”: Journalist Mohammed Omer on Ceasefire Deal & Rebuilding
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(...) AMY GOODMAN: What about the agreement? What exactly does this ceasefire say?

MOHAMMED OMER: The ceasefire is a quite vague terminology. I have seen the document which the Egyptians have released. The term “ease the crossings” or “ease the blockade” is rather vague, and it’s a rather subjective term which I find very difficult to translate on the ground. If you go back a little bit, Amy, to May 2010, just after the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish attack—or, the attack on the Turkish flotilla, we do see how much Israel tried to get materials into the Gaza Strip, and “easing the blockade” back then was translated into allowing ketchup, shoelace, and even coriander to make falafel for the people of Gaza. I hope this is not going to be the case this time.

People are hopeful that this is going to be holding, but I am not quite confident that Israel is really willing to do that. If that’s the case, then we would be seeing all the commercial crossings and Rafah crossing will be open. But that has not been the case today. Palestinian fishermen are hoping to get inside further than the three miles that they have been restricted to by the Israeli military for the past period, but so far we haven’t heard any reports from the fishermen whether they were able to get inside further than six miles. So it’s all in the test mode, if you like, in the coming hours. We are trying to see how much of this is going to hold.

But the fact that it is really quite holding right now, that the ceasefire is still going on, and there is no fighting, which is a good chance for people to come back to their homes and to check on their relatives and to bury their loved ones and to go condolences. I have seen about—talking about condolences, there are hundreds of people who are running to mourning tents, from one to the other, and there are many people who don’t know who was lost. Some people who are living in the same neighborhood, who say, “Well, we don’t know that our neighbors have been killed, because we were under constant bombardment and attacks that we could not leave outside of our homes.”

AMY GOODMAN: Mohammed Omer, on Tuesday, the U.N. spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, welcomed the ceasefire but warned that any lasting solution must address the root causes of the conflict. This is what he said.

STÉPHANE DUJARRIC: Any peace effort that does not tackle the root causes of the crisis will do little more then set the stage for the next cycle of violence. Gaza must be brought back under one legitimate Palestinian government, adhering to the PLO commitments. The blockade of Gaza must end. Israel’s legitimate security concerns must be addressed. The United Nations stands ready to support efforts to address the structural factors of conflict between Israel and Gaza.

AMY GOODMAN: What does this position of the United Nations mean for the people of Gaza, Mohammed Omer?

MOHAMMED OMER: But this position is not new. If we are talking about eight years ago, this is the same position exactly. The United Nations have called on Israel to end the blockade in Gaza, to make life possible for the Palestinians. But now it’s really up to Israel. It’s Israel who will decide whether the Gaza Strip should be opened or not.

I mean, talking about six miles, this is not enough, when I talk to fishermen. This is absolutely not enough. Basically, Palestinians for the last few years have been fishing an area which is virtually fished out, in fact. So, people are fishing within three miles just for the last few years, and now they are extended another three miles. I’m sure they will be shot at in the coming days.

People say that this is going to be a quite shaky ceasefire, given that there is no guarantee. It’s only Egypt that guarantees all these issues. If you remember, in November 2012, the United States of America, they were on this agreement of ceasefire. President Morsi, back then, and several Arab states and European Union were supporting the ceasefire. And it did not really hold for more than two years. So what are we expecting, this ceasefire to hold for more than a year now? I’m quite doubting that.(...)