Our World: The Jewish Refugees, By Caroline Glick
Excerpts:
“When one enters Nitzan, at first glance it looks like a success story. The roads are largely paved. Each family lives in a red-roofed mobile home with grassy lawns all around. But dig just slightly beneath the surface and you see you are in a refugee camp. The fiberglass walls of the homes can be torn apart by a stray soccer ball. Children play in dirt plots next to moving bulldozers. Sewage runs openly between the homes. And those homes – 60 square meters for families of five and under, and 90 square meters for families with more than three children – are cramped and tiny. Most of the families in Nitzan had lived in homes that averaged 200 square meters in Gaza.”
“When they arrived at Nitzan many of the refugees realized that their furniture was unsuitable and so they were forced to buy new furnishings. Although each family’s belongings were packed in containers, you will see no containers in Nitzan. The Defense Ministry, which runs the camp, only allows people to have their containers for 10 days. Anyone who does not remove their container after 10 days is fined. And anyway, the summer heat combined with less than professional packing by Defense Ministry contractors left the contents of some 20 percent of the containers ruined.”
Gush Katif Evictees Refuse to Be Separated
Regarding the above headline, according to an email received today, a loose English translation of an Israel National News Report says;
“Minhelet SELA is demanding that dozens of GK families currently in hotels in J-lem leave in the immediate future with no alternative housing. These are families who rented and did not own homes in GK (some for over 10 years) and are in the middle of a clarification process about their eligibility for further subsidies. The families are refusing to budge.”