vrijdag 30 juli 2010

New record for flying kites in the Gaza Strip

United Nations relief and works agency for Palestine refugees (UNWRa) give children who live in a state of siege the opportunity to express themselves and have fun. Together on jul 30th 2010, children have 6300 kites up in the air, the record is part of a summer camp. Earlyer this summer the children broke the bouncing balls record.

Whether the record ends up in Guinness remains to be seen. Nobody of this book keeper was present because of a travel warning. Yet the organization believes the 2009 record is broken, then only three thousand kites flyed simultaniously in the air.

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• As the fighting in and around Gaza intensified, it became increasingly difficult to get information about the course of the fighting. Many Palestinians maintain a weblog, also from the Gaza Strip. As soon as there is power they quickly put on their computer and place their message on the web, some have a generator.
• The israeli attack launched dec 27th 2008 constitutes a serious violation of international humanitarian law. Not only Hamas is accountable for the current situation but also israël, says Europe.
• Now people in the Gaza Strip have food and five hours a day electricity, there is hope that fathers can work. They want access to their fishing grounds and earn credit in order to cultivate the buffer zone. Social economy should be ensured by authorities in accordance with rules, because they are poor: Dashed hopes for Gaza's productive economy.
• In the month of jan 2009, approximately 400 children were killed in Gaza. In a population of 1.5 million people that is very much compared to the number of child murders in the netherlands: about 60 per year.

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