As Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters hold fire in Gaza, civilians are trying to return home. But what many Palestinians find are rubble and devastation... About 100,000 Gazans lost their homes in the three-week war ...
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In Pictures: Gaza in ruins
AlJazeera.net
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Jan 22, 2009
As Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters hold fire in Gaza, civilians are trying to return home [AFP]
But what many Palestinians find are rubble and devastation [Gallo/Getty]
Crowded into a strip of land 40km long and 10km wide, Gaza's 1.5 million people suffer from widespread poverty, malnutrition and unemployment [Gallo/Getty]
A situation only worsened by Israel's bloodiest assault on the territory in decades [Gallo/Getty]
About 100,000 Gazans lost their homes in the three-week war [Gallo/Getty]
More than 75 per cent of the territory's electricity has been cut off as Gaza's only power plant remains shut due to lack of fuel [Gallo/Getty]
At least 30 per cent of the population has no access to clean running water and sewage treatment plants have stopped working [AFP]
And more than 10,000 people are at risk of having their homes flooded with waste water as a major sewage dump is on the verge of breaching its banks [AFP]
Of the 22,000 buildings destroyed in the Israeli offensive, 4,000 of them were residential buildings [AFP]
Hamas says the Strip will need at least $1.6 billion to rebuild [AFP]
Meanwhile, ordinary Gazans remain uncertain whether the relative calm will last [AFP]
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| Comment by zacharia - 23 Jan 2009 - 15:10 [REGISTERED USER] | The Palestinian Arab People are now the American Indians
of the Middle East.
And the American Indians are the Palestinians in America.
The monsters have used the same tactics to wipe out the
indigenous population right here on this continent.
And the same monsters are working hard to wipe out the
indigenous population in Palestine but will fail and
will be defeated.
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