News from Gaza Part 2

S.A.M. · Jan 29, 2009

The United Nations on Thursday launched an emergency appeal for $613 million to help Palestinians recover from Israel's three-week offensive on the Gaza Strip.

At the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that aid for Gaza victim was urgently needed. He said he was deeply moved by his visit to Gaza and gave his word that the UN would help recruit funds.

According to Ban, the appeal covers the requirements of UN and other aid organizations for the next six to nine months and will help provide everything from medical care to clean water.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1059878.html
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Thats good of them, but if the borders are closed, how do the Gazans get it?

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S.A.M. · Jan 30, 2009

More news from Gaza:

GAZA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Whole streets lie in ruins, many thousands of Palestinians are homeless after weeks of Israeli bombing and foreign aid cash is piling up. As a builder in the Gaza Strip, this should be Anwar al-Sahabani's big moment.

Instead, though, he sits at home, angry and sad, not just at the wounds he suffered on the first day of bombardment, but with frustration at being denied the basic supplies he needs to start rebuilding. Israel will not let in cement, steel pipes and other materials it says its Hamas enemies might use to make war.

"The fighting stopped over a week ago but people are still sleeping in the open air," said Sahabani, whose firm employs up to 100 craftsmen and labourers when working at full capacity.

"We should have started reconstruction the day the war ended. But we have no supplies." His men, like him, sit idle, he said: "I am sad and angry and I feel a pain beyond words."

Along the 45 km (30-mile) strip of Mediterranean coastline, half-finished construction sites stand silent, and, amid the ruins left by this month's violence, families are building makeshift wood-and-plastic shelters to escape the cold.

"For two years now, we have not been able to build," Sahabani said of an Israeli embargo going back to 2007. "God knows what will happen now to the people who lost their homes."
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http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSB231485

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