Two reports about Israel/Palestine in NZZ of 2007.08.22

The occupation of Palestine by Jews is theme of two articles in today’s NZZ. The first is about the situation in Gaza’s hospitals. Fatah demands, that all medical workers in Gaza’s hospitals only work during the morning, or they will not get paid. Needless to say, that this kills Palestinians. One more reason to hate Fatah.

And the Israeli have stopped shipment of fuel to Gaza for several days therefore leaving the hospitals partly without electricity. This because the EU stopped payments but also because Israel still withholds millions worth of tax dollars they are obliged to pay to the Palestinian authorities. The article is a bit out of date because deliveries of fuel have restarted. But still spare parts for machines are withheld.

The chief surgeon says that Hamas is not corrupt as Fatah was, but replaces the old leaders with their own people. I don’t know, but perhaps they were replaced, because they were corrupt.

On the other hand Scort for Peace, for Aid, for Development, organized soccer training in Israel between Israelis and Palestinians. On the second day, of the 14 boys from Jericho, only two were allowed to enter Israel. The rest was sent back at Israeli road blocks. It is unfair just to blame the Israelis. In Fatah-controlled West Bank, a soccer tournament was named after Ziyad Daas, a Fatah-member who in 2002 killed 6 people and maimed 35 at a Bar Mizwa.