Plight of Gaza Kids Unbearable: UN Official
Children in Gaza and Zimbabwe desperately need help to ensure they have food, clean water and schooling, and international aid is running short, a senior UN official said yesterday.
Dan Toole, director of emergency programmes for the Unicef children’s agency, said a shortage of donor cash was having a dramatic effect in the territories, which both face international disapproval because of their leaders’ policies.
“Isolation, both externally and internally imposed, combined with under-funding for humanitarian aid, is denying children the basic goods and services that would normally be taken for granted,” Toole told a Geneva news conference.
“The children of Gaza and Zimbabwe deserve better. They have the right to go to school and be educated, drink clean water and go to bed without being hungry,” he said.
Aid funding for Unicef programmes in the whole of the Palestinian territories, including the West Bank as well as Gaza, is running at only 36% of needs for this year, while for Zimbabwe it is at 29%.
The two areas were typical of Unicef’s “forgotten emergencies” where funds are very short for initiatives to help children, Toole said, describing Iraq, southern Sudan, Chad, Ivory Coast and Pakistan as similarly vulnerable.
Toole said conditions for young people were “nothing short of unbearable” in the Gaza Strip, which was taken over by the Hamas Islamist group last month after bloody clashes with the Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The vast majority of all Gazans rely on humanitarian aid, but relief efforts have been largely thwarted by the region’s isolation, despite a welcome move by Israel to ease barriers to the delivery of goods, he said. - Reuters
I wonder what role zionists play in Zimbabwe?
Well for one their under the World Bank, therefore it's easy to understand why Zimbabwe is currently experiencing unusually HYPERINFLATION.
It was colonized by Britian for its resources back in 1888....
[edit] Colonization
In 1888 British entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes extracted mining rights from King Lobengula of the Ndebele.[4] He used this concession to persuade the British government to grant a royal charter to his British South Africa Company (BSAC) over Matabeleland and its subject states such as Mashonaland, and to negotiate similar concessions covering all territory between the Limpopo River and Lake Tanganyika, referred to as 'Zambesia'. Through such concessions and treaties, many of which were deceitful,[5] he promoted the colonization of the region's land, labor, and precious metal and mineral resources.[6] In 1895 the BSAC adopted the name 'Rhodesia' for Zambesia, after Cecil Rhodes, and in 1898 'Southern Rhodesia' was officially adopted for the part south of the Zambezi,[7] which later became Zimbabwe, while the part to the north was administered separately by the BSAC and was later named Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia.
Apparently the Brittish Zionist' didn't like who had gained control of Zimbabwe and thus it's natural resources by the 1970's;
[edit] Settler rule and civil war
The British government requested United Nations economic sanctions against Rhodesia as negotiations with the Smith administration in 1966 and 1968 stalemated
Further more we see that the majority of viable commercial land (with natural resources??), is in the hands of the wealthy elite ...
"Land issues, which the liberation movement promised to solve, re-emerged as the vital issue for the ruling party beginning in 1999. Despite majority-rule, and the existence of a "willing buyer-willing seller" land reform programme since the 1980s, ZANU (PF) claimed that whites made up less than 1% of the population but held 70% of the country's commercially viable arable land (though these figures are disputed by many outside the Government of Zimbabwe). "
Zimbabwe's current economic and food crisis, described by some observers as the country's worst humanitarian crisis since independence, has been attributed, in varying degrees, to a drought affecting the entire region, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the government's price controls and land reforms.[19]
I'm sure the land reforms have alot more to do with thier poverty then we expect.
Source Information
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Mugabe points to foreign governments and alleged "sabotage" as the cause of this, as well as the country's 80% formal unemployment rate. Critics of Mugabe's administration, including the majority of the international community, however, immediately indicate the main cause of some of these issues stems from Mugabe's controversial program which sought to seize land from white commercial farmers. Mugabe has repeatedly blamed sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the EU and the USA for the state of the Zimbabwean economy. However, these sanctions only target government officials and not ordinary citizens.[40]. In a recent meeting of the Southern African Development Community, a call was issued for the sanctions to be removed.[41]
smells like zionist banker sabotage to me...
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