It’s their issue, we’re not responsible for Palestinian problems “Arab saying “

Because no country ready to destroy its relationship with Israel , no country dares to say No to Israel , there’s no any Arab president can stand up and shout “ Stop killing Gaza , we will respond to every criminal action against Gaza “ nobody dare , nobody care . Who can break up their own relationships with Israel? Political economy, Business, oil, agreements, trade and commerce! Who can destroy it all because one kid or two suffering now in Gaza? It doesn’t matter, it’s easier to keep watching without any action, No one on this planet wants to suffer a headache or make himself busy with some people are killing in a country you can’t even find it on the map, everyone needs and want peace with Israel.

Well, they are not just one or two kids, or only a small area on a map, Gaza strip has an annual population growth rate of 2.91% (2014 est.), the 13th highest in the world, and is overcrowded, 1.8 million suffering in Gaza right now, life is completely paralyzed, with each bomb by IOF many people injured and killed because it’s high population density, statistics refer clearly to that:

“ As of 1:30 pm, Sunday 10 August 2014, Al Mezan was able to verify that at least 1,927 Palestinians have been killed by the IOF since 7 July 2014. Of  them 440 are children and 243[1] women. According to Al Mezan's initial investigations 1,651 (i.e. 85.6%) of the victims are civilians.
At least 918; including 296 children and 198 women, were killed inside their houses; and two other disabled women were killed in an attack on a rehabilitation NGO's office. Another 214 people were killed in the vicinity of their houses; including in situations where they were trying to flee from their homes as a result of IOF attacks. The number of these victims is expected to increase once the casualties in Rafah are further investigated and verified.
Moreover, at least 7و521 other people were injured during the same period; of whom at least 2,078 were children and 1,418 women. At least, 8,820 houses were destroyed or damaged during this period; of which 2,545 were destroyed completely as the IOF directly and deliberately attacked 897 of the total number of damaged houses. As of today, IOF attacks have destroyed or damaged 92 schools, 137 mosques, 8 hospitals; 6 of which are out of service, 38 NGO offices, 50 fishing boats, and 161 vehicles. “

Source: Al Mezan Center for Human Rights

We know in Gaza that most people – in Arab countries and the world - are supporting us, but their government doesn’t, and people be like “How we can help Gaza? “ Well, you can, you can force your government that support Israel to kick Israeli ambassador out, is it hard? It’s not harder than what is going on in Gaza, even if this attack on Gaza ended, they will continue their crimes in Palestine, because the attack on Gaza is not the only problem here, Palestine occupied and suffer Israeli occupation for more than 66 years, And Gaza situation now is intensive crimes. 

On other hand , everyone individually can help , don’t buy Israeli Goods , tell your friends , share this Boycott on your Facebook , Twitter and social media , let’s harm them by their economy , an extended campaign in the world now to Boycott Israeli goods , be part of it , you can do something , you’re really helpful , just don’t adapt negative stance.

Alaa Hayek is from Gaza, work in Al Mezan Centre of Human Rights and write to MBC TIMES from this Palestine City.

How to stay alive in Gaza?

When you ask your friend in Gaza “How are you doing?“ The most common answer is “Still alive“.

Just take a minute and meditate in these letters, to know how suddenly all hopes and dreams in Gaza turns in one night to “I want to live“ or no no . “I want to survive“!

It’s horrible when your hopes to see your child graduating from Kindergarten turns to how keep him feel safe , or when you trying to convince your little girl that is nothing going on outside except “ Fireworks “ , or your dreams about buying  -for you and your family- a new beautiful house instead of killer rent,  turns suddenly to how make sure that your rental house is far away from the real Killer , actually it’s not , or even your wishes of healing your broken hand turns to just not losing it .

The Whole truth about living in Gaza is that your highest limits of your hopes and dreams became “how to stay alive and safe? “. But unfortunately, this question has no answer.
Has no answer because when Israeli military air strikes fire bombs all days and nights without any distinguishing  between civilian and militaries , and when Navy Israeli military keep fires on people who live around the beach , or when Egypt - the closest neighbor to Gaza - closes Rafah crossing against injures who need argent transfer to hospital, which by the way are very overcrowded in Gaza and can’t bear anymore injures ,  in addition to its suffering of  storage of medicine and medical equipments . Then you’ll find yourself in the middle of Land – sea – air siege and aggression and you’ll not be able to make sure that you, your wife or your children will stay alive for another day, hour or even minute.

Another scene in Gaza you will not find in Hollywood or action movies, you will not see it in any other place in the world. “It’s 3:20 a.m., he finally convinced his children to sleep and nothing is going on outside ,  Sound coming from the hall , it’s telephone ringing , he answered and got massage that he have to leave his house now before they destroy it . he through the handset away and harried up to wake his children and wife up , ran as fast as they can to get out of the house , if he were lucky he will find his family identification documents and some money before getting bomb , it’s 3:27 a.m. , they‘re now on the stairs , a small rocket bombed the roof of the house now , no one injured yet , they keep running  , now they are outside watching their house with all the memories , years , events and dreams getting bombed and destroyed with a horrible rocket by F-16 Military aircraft at 3:30 a.m.  , now they are homeless, THE END “

So, sorry, I will not be able to answer the question “How to stay alive in Gaza?” because I don’t even know if I will be able to publish these lines before getting killed.  But I’m not sorry about our children desire of living, not surviving

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