PLEASE DONATE INSHA'ALLAAH if you are unable to read this email please click the following link http://www.hai.org.uk/eshots/humaneshot40.html?mid=40&did=426 Dear Brothers and Sisters! I hope and pray this email finds you in the best of health and ever increasing Iman, insha’Allah. Reason for this email as you can gather from the title is to raise urgent funds for Gaza! We’re all subject to the bias media and many of us don’t put enough effort to know what’s really going on, so the second purpose of this email is to create awareness. The plight of the Palestinians would have been going on for 60 years this year, but with Human Rights law that the West hold so dear and the UN you would never expect the situation in Gaza could get this bad. “Israel” withdrew from the Gaza strip in the summer of 2005, but did it? With complete control over borders, air space and sea the strip has been removed of occupation and put under siege….the worlds biggest open air concentration camp as has been described by some! When the West asked for the Palestinian people to undertake free and fair elections, you could argue that the Palestinains set a precedent for this within the region, in the beginning of 2006. so what is the price of democracy for these people? It is that Gaza is put under siege. It has been so for over a year on and off and constantly for the past 7.5 months…why?... because it is under the authority of a democratically elected government. Gaza is the size of about 360 square km which is like the size of a single borough of London with a population of 1.5 million and a density rate of 27000 individulas per one square km (just over half a mile) the most densly populated place in the world! Even Jeddah airport in Saudi Arabia is bigger than Gaza strip. 81% of the population live under the poverty line which is about a dollar a day and 53% are unemployed! Nothing and no one can come in or out of Gaza.....government employees have not been paid their wages for months, money is scarce therefore demand has vanished and as a result many businesses have had to shut down. The americans will not allow banks to deal with the government (hence there is hardly any money)and on a personal level it will not allow a transfer of over $5000 (about £2500) at any one time. "israel" is also withdrawing its currency (which is the main currency in the strip for which all other currencies are exchanged for!) When bush visited the Middle East recently, he said he is committed to bringing about peace within the region, before he leaves office! He stated to scrap the previous UN resolutions which did not work (why didn’t they work? Because the US vetoed every single resolution) So a few days after his visit to Palestine and Occupied Palestine the Israelis started incursions into Gaza reinforced by air strikes…giving the green light to such barbaric behavior! This is the peace? Conditions were previously dire and after these recent incidents, have become even more so. In the past week around 50 people were killed and dozens injured by Israeli attacks, the majority of them civilians (not that the killings of the resistance is justified) 73 ill people with curable conditions died because they have no access to medicines or hospitals outside Gaza. About 1700 face a slow painful death. The siege has brought about catastrophic effects on daily and economic life. In recent days power plants have had to be shut down because the fuel that is needed to run these plants to generate electricity has been blocked by the Israelis from being imported into Gaza. Gaza now lives in total darkness! What are the effects of this?... Hospitals are unable to treat the injured or the terminally ill as there is no electricity to operate equipment. Patients needing dialysis will be left to die. My mother-in-law suffers from asthma, so when my husband called home, his mother could not speak and had to hang up on him because she was suffering severely as there was no electricity to operate the inhalator. She has to sleep the whole night breathless in the severe cold. People cannot store food: meat or milk or such products as refrigerators can not run without electricity. The temperature at night inside is the same as outside, recently being below 0 degrees… but the people cannot warm their houses as there is guess what….no electricity! The previous agricultural activities of the occupying settlers has left the water reserves lacking and contaminated. The pure clean drinking water is stolen by the israleis and pumped into the settlements and the Israeli cities. When this water is depleted the source is filled with sea water which is by no means drinkable. Due to this fact there has emerged water filtering companies from which the population has to buy for consumption purposes, these companies can not operate without electricity. The other major concern with water and no electricity is that lack of the latter brings about a failure in the sewage system making the sources of consumption water even more prone to contamination and roads being filled with ponds of sewage. Universities cannot print examination papers…because there is no electricity and not even the basics of paper, due to the siege that blocks them from being provided to Gaza. Tradesmen are having to pay demurrages to the Israelis for keeping their products in Israel which are not being allowed into Gaza. Those tradesmen that export perishables are having to let them perish! Again in recent days the union of companies have announced the closure of over 3000 companies. This means further unemployment, less liquidity, higher prices! Hundreds of items of food are banned and the basics such as flour have quadrupled in price. There is no construction material to build and there is not even the simplest of furniture such as mattresses. As you could imagine, the above mentioned situation could bring anyone to breaking point! Just yesterday part of the border wall between Egypt and Gaza, Palestine was blown apart because of the starvation, destitution and suffering of these people. Tens and thousands flooded into Egypt to stock up on basic materials and others finally made it into Gaza after many months wait! Despite this incident the siege continues! Israel continues to occupy Palestine with barbarism and tyranny without anyone batting an eye lid! Egypt, being a puppet of the West will soon be laying down its heavy hand on the Gazans….it is therefore essential that we do what we can for our brothers and sisters….to try and raise financial support and to create awareness! Messenger on the move… Text MSN to 63463 now! _________________________________________________________________ Free games, great prizes - get gaming at Gamesbox. http://www.searchgamesbox.com
