Gaza families live in rubble of their bombed homes
By Patrick O. Strickland and Ezz Zanoun
Source: Electronic Intifada
February 14, 2015
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Deeb al-Aajleh, photographed above, has survived every Israeli war on Palestinians since the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
“I came back first and am the only one living on the first floor,” he explained. “Now my son and his children are moving back in on the second floor. It’s very difficult — there’s no electricity or water. We cannot cook or keep warm.”
The al-Aajleh family — originally from Jaffa, but displaced to Gaza in 1948 — had been waiting for financial assistance from UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees.
Yet due to a budget shortfall, UNRWA last month halted aid to thousands of Gaza families like al-Aajleh’s whose homes were damaged or destroyed last summer. “We have had enough of our homes being destroyed,” al-Aajleh said. “Enough bullets, enough missiles.”
Approximately 2,257 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians, were killed in the summer onslaught, according to the UN monitoring group OCHA. More than 338,000 Palestinians were displaced, says the humanitarian coordination body Shelter Palestine.
“Nothing is improving:”
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