Hortage of Summer Camps for Palestinian Kid's
06.21.06 (12:42 am) [edit]
Aggravated Trauma with lack of summer camps in North the Strip
Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:40 pm (PST)
19/06/2006 Palestine International Press Center (IPC)
(official Palestinian National authority news source – Agence officielle
de l’Autorité Nationale palestinienne)
Aggravated Trauma with lack of summer camps in North the Strip
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NORTH GAZA, Palestine, June 19,2006 (IPC)- -Palestinian children in
North Gaza are looking forward to joining the summer camps and share
entertainment but the sharp slump in the number of these camps this year
due to siege and international sanction on the Palestinian people makes
the grim situation harder.
Most children find no place to spend their leisure time in the summer
vacation but seashore which is no more safe after the killing of Ghalyia
family at picnic there last week.
Most children dedicated organizations working in Gaza Strip refrained to
organza summer camps this year due to the lack of capabilities and fund
shortage.
Many activists and campaigners in these organizations said that the
current circumstances has not permitted organizing summer camps,
signaling out that some organizations and bodies used to finance the
camps no longer do so this year .
The camps provide an alternative for the children during the summer
school holidays when there is little to offer in the way of recreation
on Gaza's streets, but to be totally deprived of summertime fun is
psychologically terrible either due to the Israeli relentless
aggressions or the desperate economic strait resulted in the economic
embargo.
Fayez Jouda , head of Al Anqaa development association in Jabalyia town
said " the children of the town tremendously traumatized by the current
situation ; absolute poverty, security looseness, social instability
that adversely affected on their behaviors and manners.
Jouda added "my association is used to organize one more camps in the
summer break in which hundreds of children from both gender but this
year the association is unable due to the lake of resources."
Fadi Zakout, 13, with pale face was trying to fly a kite in a street of
Jabalyia refugee camp under the baking sun said "no places for fun and
entertainment, I've nothing to do but this kite to amuse."
"No summer camps, I tried to register in any camp that yearly organized
but told me that no camps this year ," Zakout sighed.
A ten year old Basma Elyan , from Beit Lahyia, used to do something else
in this vacation, watching martyrs funeral procession as her house is
nearby the cemetery.
"Since the beginning of summer break, I watched a lot of funeral
processions coming to this cemetery, all were killed by the Israeli
airplane bombardment," Basma said.
" I watch TV that also display footage of the Martyrs, torn bodies,"
referring to the crime of killing seven members of Ghalyia family last
week that profoundly broke her heart.
The parents also spoke about the suffering of their sons as they lost
the most favorable recreational means.
Anwar Awad,41, from Jablyia refugee camp said that he is a father of
five children aged 8-15 , spending their most time at home or playing
the yard opposite to the house, pointing that his children has been
deprived and depressed but he has no thing to do.
A study by Dr. Eyad Al Saraj , head of Gaza Community Mental Health
Program issued recently shows that nearly 30% of Gaza's children are
suffering psychological disorder due to the ongoing Israeli violations.
(official Palestinian National authority news source – Agence officielle
de l’Autorité Nationale palestinienne)
Aggravated Trauma with lack of summer camps in North the Strip
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/detail s.asp?name=16574" title="http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/detail s.asp?name=16574" target="_blank"http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new...
NORTH GAZA, Palestine, June 19,2006 (IPC)- -Palestinian children in
North Gaza are looking forward to joining the summer camps and share
entertainment but the sharp slump in the number of these camps this year
due to siege and international sanction on the Palestinian people makes
the grim situation harder.
Most children find no place to spend their leisure time in the summer
vacation but seashore which is no more safe after the killing of Ghalyia
family at picnic there last week.
Most children dedicated organizations working in Gaza Strip refrained to
organza summer camps this year due to the lack of capabilities and fund
shortage.
Many activists and campaigners in these organizations said that the
current circumstances has not permitted organizing summer camps,
signaling out that some organizations and bodies used to finance the
camps no longer do so this year .
The camps provide an alternative for the children during the summer
school holidays when there is little to offer in the way of recreation
on Gaza's streets, but to be totally deprived of summertime fun is
psychologically terrible either due to the Israeli relentless
aggressions or the desperate economic strait resulted in the economic
embargo.
Fayez Jouda , head of Al Anqaa development association in Jabalyia town
said " the children of the town tremendously traumatized by the current
situation ; absolute poverty, security looseness, social instability
that adversely affected on their behaviors and manners.
Jouda added "my association is used to organize one more camps in the
summer break in which hundreds of children from both gender but this
year the association is unable due to the lake of resources."
Fadi Zakout, 13, with pale face was trying to fly a kite in a street of
Jabalyia refugee camp under the baking sun said "no places for fun and
entertainment, I've nothing to do but this kite to amuse."
"No summer camps, I tried to register in any camp that yearly organized
but told me that no camps this year ," Zakout sighed.
A ten year old Basma Elyan , from Beit Lahyia, used to do something else
in this vacation, watching martyrs funeral procession as her house is
nearby the cemetery.
"Since the beginning of summer break, I watched a lot of funeral
processions coming to this cemetery, all were killed by the Israeli
airplane bombardment," Basma said.
" I watch TV that also display footage of the Martyrs, torn bodies,"
referring to the crime of killing seven members of Ghalyia family last
week that profoundly broke her heart.
The parents also spoke about the suffering of their sons as they lost
the most favorable recreational means.
Anwar Awad,41, from Jablyia refugee camp said that he is a father of
five children aged 8-15 , spending their most time at home or playing
the yard opposite to the house, pointing that his children has been
deprived and depressed but he has no thing to do.
A study by Dr. Eyad Al Saraj , head of Gaza Community Mental Health
Program issued recently shows that nearly 30% of Gaza's children are
suffering psychological disorder due to the ongoing Israeli violations.