Archive for July 2010
killing the bees
Jul 19, 2010 (IPS) By Eva Bartlett- Sa’id Hillis, 60, has kept bees since he was a boy. Until the Israeli attacks changed his business.
Sa’id has 20 dunams (a dunam is 1000 square metres) farmland in Sheyjayee, east of Gaza city and roughly 400 metres from the Green Line border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. Until 2009 the farm had hundreds of trees, and more than 10,000 chickens. “It was all destroyed during the Israeli attacks,” Hillis says.
The 2008-2009 23-day Israeli war on Gaza destroyed more than 35 percent of Gaza’s agricultural land, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). This included chicken and beef farms, and cultivated land.
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the bombs that remain
GAZA CITY, Jul 7, 2010 (IPS) By Eva Bartlett- At precisely 12 noon on a Thursday afternoon, among the rolling sandy hills in southern Gaza, a controlled explosion destroys another round of white phosphorous shells left in Gaza following the 2008-2009 Israeli war on Gaza.
Explosives experts from the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) and the United Nations Mine Action Team (UNMAT) are working together to eliminate the remainders of a deadly Israeli attack. The Israeli bombings from land, sea and air left behind large amounts of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in civilian areas. post continues
