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Friday, December 2, 2005 |
Pollard Urging Public Support of Protest Tent for Gush Katif |
Pollard Urging Public Support of Protest Tent for Gush Katif Jonathan Pollard sent his wife, Esther, [12/1/05] to visit the Gush Katif The Pollards urge everyone to visit the Protest Tent, and to spend some time Below is a release (courtesy of Women in Green) originally circulated by English Orange - November 28, 2005, Cheshvan 26, Are you capable of sitting silently and patiently another day? 100 DAYS SINCE THE EXPULSION, AND THERE IS STILL NO SOLUTION FOR THE TRUE -100 days later: 426 Families still living in hotels and their possessions -approx.1700 families lost their homes this past summer -about 10,000 people were ripped out of their homes and lives in seven days -100 days have elapsed since the forceful relocation -2200 people are currently unemployed -50% of the 'caravillas' promised by the Sel"a Authority are still not ready -65% of the uprooted remain in "immediate solution" (temporary) quarters -105 families presently live in tents -dozens of youth have yet to find suitable educational solutions -approximately 700 families live in various temporary quarters such as -size of a caravilla is between 60 to 120 square meters. (646 sq. ft. to 130 -some families with 12 members are housed in a single caravilla -$500 is the average rental fee for a caravilla -caravillas can hold, at best, up to 50% of the family's belongings -4 containers holding entire family possessions have totally disappeared -4 homes were totally destroyed together with the house contents -the majority of the families are not permitted access to their storage -over the summer some expensive furniture was irreparably damaged by the -more than 300 agricultural farms were wiped off the face of the earth -only 20 have been relocated - 0 residents received the promised severance pay -merely 13% were deemed eligible to receive a temporary advance of living -families that were living in rented homes in Gush Katif/Northern Shomron, -Singles living in the expelled areas are not eligible for any reparations -about 600 families are today living in hotel rooms and educational -the hotel dwellers are not entitled to basic rights like hosting guests in -3 washing machines are available for the use of the Moshav Katif people and -2 telephone lines on average available for the use of the refugees in the -2 parents + 3 children are housed in a single room in many of the hotels -35% of the evacuees are still living in hotels -hundreds of children above age 7 have started wetting their beds (nearly -many heart attacks have occurred as a result of the expulsion crisis -many suicide attempts as a result of the disengagement -4 girls between ages 16-19 are in a locked hospital ward because of their -10 youth are in clinical depression and do not leave their rooms -thousands of children who returned to the classrooms have dramatically -families are still charged to pay back mortgages on their non-existent -Homesh expellees have been billed by the electric company for cutting off -Only within the past two weeks has the disengagement authority been willing -about 400 families have gone off on their own, spread throughout the -Neveh Dekalim alone has been forced to split up into 13 different locations -Evacuation of the Northern Shomron communities allows for a territorial -28% of Israel's land has, in effect, been abandoned by her citizens -3000 coats intended for the evacuees were stolen from the warehouses. -Ministry of Education does not subsidize the temporary schools that have -Students who missed the summer exams are being barred from taking make-up -75% of the Expellees are still without jobs -0 refugees have been moved of their own free will -25 thriving and flourishing communities have been totally wiped out -38 bodies were removed from their graves. Their families had to go through -Synagogues were destroyed -ten thousand citizens are thrown out of their homes, without their -There has been NOT one solution for any single citizen!!! *************************************** Please enter the following links into your internet address bar to read the http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=93883 Sit-In Strike Begins in Jerusalem ******************************************************** http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=93800 Finding Jobs for People Without Homes 15:35 Nov 28, '05 / 26 Cheshvan 5766 ********************************************** http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=5796 I Have the Right to Be Unforgiving by Roberta Feinstein Bienenfeld NEW update -Nov 25, 2005 Kfar Darom will not be moving to Ashkelon to the Take care, and Besorot Tovot **************************************** IMPORTANT CONTACT NUMBERS AND WEBSITES LeMaan Acheinu - assistance and counseling: 02-5090111, Legal Aid Chonenu- 1-599-504-020 Justice Forum- (till 5:00 pm) 02 5022202 Legal assistance- 08-971-6676 (till 7:00 pm) Law office experienced in the Employment- 08-6727703 (job offers and placement) JobKatif website- http://www.jobkatif.org.il Modiin Bulletin Board-http://www.modiin.org (assistance) Paamonim-Financial Advice and Assistance-1-800-351-012 or 02-9975577 Lev Achim- 1-800-550-300 (National Education Hotline) Open Line- Hotline for emotional and faith issues 02-6518388 Aliyat HaNoar- 036898738 Minhelet Selah, Jerusalem- 02-531-1144, 88 Northern area- 04-624 7393 Shame Page- http://www.shame.co.il |
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