Gaza man dies after he set himself ablaze
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A man from the Gaza Strip died on Sunday from burns he sustained three days ago when he set himself on fire, officials and his family said. Eyhab Abu Nada, 18, poured petrol on himself before setting himself alight near the Shifa hospital on Thursday, locals said. Gaza ministry of health spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said the youth, from Gaza City’s Al-Shati refugee camp, had sustained serious burns. Locals said Nada had a heated argument with his father before the incident. His father Sufyan denied the reports, saying that the teenager set himself ablaze out of desperation that he couldn’t find work. ”We had no idea he was going to set himself ablaze. He called our female neighbor on her cell phone to say goodbye to his mother,” he said. ” “A few days before he burnt himself, he was selling bags of chips in the street, and municipal police were always pursuing him,” his father told Ma’an, calling his son a “fallen martyr of unemployment”. Eyhab used to work 13 hours a day washing dishes in exchange for 30 shekels ($7), his father added, saying that the family of eight live in dire conditions and any money he earns goes towards repaying bank loans. The teenager left school during his Tawjihi exams to help his father provide for the family.
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The camps stood opposite of each other during each one of the Ramadan Fridays. From dawn to afternoon- when the prayer at Al-Aqsa was being conducted, the Palestinians stood armed with their prayer mats on their shoulders before the army of soldier armed with rifles and grenades, a ritual reminiscent of that of the Great War, wherein once the sun had set the battles would subside until being renewed at sunrise.
Gabi Baramki: Boundless Giving, Undefeatable Spirit
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“18-year-old Gazan sets self on fire, protesting conditions similar to those Mohammad Bouazizi took on”
Allah irhamu
I’m sure it will be of some comfort to his family that he died as part of G-d’s great plan for humanity that sees the Jewish Messiah return to Erez Israel where peace *and justice* will reign forever (*offer applies to selected races only)
burns himself to death. i don’t know what to say. his poor family.
Another tragic story of despair and utter frustration at the state of limbo they are in in their open air prison. I could not imagine myself having to live the way they do.
A PERVERSE POLICY OF SELF-DESTRUCTION
If the two state solution is now dead and Israel has succeeded in its
illegitimate policy of inducing its citizens to settle on Palestinian land,
by offering them tax and financial incentives in order to prevent the
establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and East Jerusalem – then it will also have succeeded in a perverse policy of self-destruction
as an independent Jewish state.
By 2020, the Arab majority in Palestine i.e. from Mount Hermon in the north to Eilat in the south will require the Israeli minority government to impose an apartheid regime whereby the majority indigenous people will be herded into bantustaans guarded by armed police on watchtowers. From time to time there will be show trials similar to that of Mandela at Rivonia.
And the regime will last until such time as the international community will impose sanctions, as they did against South Africa, and before long a figure will ultimately emerge – a statesman similar to Nelson Mandela, who together with the United nations will shame the Likud party, as it did the South African Nationalists, into ceding power to the majority with universal enfranchisement.
It appears that many refuse to learn the lessons of history, by deluding
themselves that they are a superior nation that does not need to comply
with internationally accepted agreements. It is indeed sad, that a country
with so much unquestionable talent, has a government that has no viable
long-term plan for political or economic survival.
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It’s great to have you back posting again, TIP! Will you be including your round-up of other Middle Eastern countries in the news for future postings?