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2009-02-09 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Local Palestinian volunteers erect hundreds of canvas tents for the tens of thousands of new Gazan refugees of the 23-day Israeli onslaught. The tents were provided recently by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and the UN refugee agency (UNRWA), The Daily Star reported on Sunday, and added that in recent days the Hamas government has partnered with international aid groups and local charities to set up hundreds of tents in the most devastated areas.

The heart [burp!] bleeds.

Many of the tents have been erected in Camp Dignity, which containing around 700 tents to house 30,000 who lost their homes. The camp is just a few kilometers away from the well-known Jabaliya camp, which was established in 1948 for some 35,000 refugees who were provided tents until the UNRWA could build permanent housing.

For Gazan refugees, living in tents stirs memories of the tragedy that began 60 years ago, when the 1948 Israeli war on Palestinians forced thousands into refugee camps.

More than two-thirds of Gaza's 1.5 million residents are UN-registered refugees descended from the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were expelled from what is now claimed as Israel in the 1948 war.

The devastating 23-day Israeli onslaught last month has left homes of some 30,000 Palestinians destroyed, again igniting the memories of the 1948 expulsions.

Israel's war on Gaza killed more than 1,330 people, including over 400 children. 5,450 Gazans were wounded.

Posted by Fred 2009-02-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top
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#1 Arabs in tents, what's odd about that picture?

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-09 03:01|| 2009-02-09 03:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Camp Dignity, I love that. Located next to Legitimate Right road?

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-02-09 08:26|| 2009-02-09 08:26|| Front Page Top

#3 I love the smell of 10000 Palis living in tents in the morning. Smells like..."victory".

Posted by tu3031 2009-02-09 09:45|| 2009-02-09 09:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Camp Dented Dignity is more like it...

Posted by Seafarious 2009-02-09 11:20|| 2009-02-09 11:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh the tragedy!!!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-02-09 12:01|| 2009-02-09 12:01|| Front Page Top

#6 More like "Camp Epic Fail".

Posted by DMFD 2009-02-09 12:58|| 2009-02-09 12:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Have you noticed? the number of killed children has at least doubled the number given at the end of ware. And it is higher than the total number of civilians by then.

Hamas bureau of census? Reuter "News" service? Jack Daniels?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2009-02-09 14:44|| 2009-02-09 14:44|| Front Page Top

#8 "Reconstruction" is up to 2 billion. Goes up about 200 million every coupla days. They must want flat screens and broadband in every hovel. And a little sumthin sumthin for the boys "administrative costs" of course...

Posted by tu3031 2009-02-09 14:56|| 2009-02-09 14:56|| Front Page Top

#9 the 1948 Israeli war on Palestinians
"In September 1947, one month after Partition of India, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) recommended partition in Palestine, a suggestion ratified by the UN General Assembly on November 29, 1947."
"Fighting between the Arab and Jewish communities of Palestine began in November 1947, immediately after the UN decision to create a Jewish state. The Arab States declared they would greet any attempt to form a Jewish state with war."
"The impending Arab invasion provided an incentive for Palestinian-Arabs to leave in the expectation that they would soon return."
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Posted by Darrell 2009-02-09 15:55|| 2009-02-09 15:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Waiting for the reports of the Hamas hard boyz forcing folk out of their homes and into Camp Gullible World Press to wail piously for the cameras.

Also, a nice dusty dirty refugee camp would be a easy place to hide a bunch of new holes in the ground.

Posted by Seafarious 2009-02-09 16:13|| 2009-02-09 16:13|| Front Page Top

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