From Yahoo:
“His bookshop in ruins, Gazan
hopes to rebuild with crowd-funding help”
Shaban Esleem says his commitment
to rebuild his Gaza bookstore after its destruction in an Israeli air strike
last week is written in stone. "I will start all over again. I will begin
small and go big," the Palestinian pledged, standing next to the piles of
masonry of what was once a four-storey building on Gaza City's Talateen Street.
The structure, he said, housed his Iqra (Read) bookshop - where he sold titles
in Arabic and foreign languages - a competitor's book business, a printing
works, an apartment and educational and language centres. Esleem, 33, picked
through the piles of stone collecting what books remained to keep as a
remembrance, even those that were torn and burnt.
Israel gave advance warning of the air strike,
the building's owners said, one of the attacks Israel launched in Hamas Islamist-run
Gaza after tensions in Jerusalem triggered cross-border rocket strikes on
Israeli towns on May 10. Eleven days of the worst hostilities in years between
Hamas and Israel ended on Friday with a ceasefire, which appears to be holding.
A GoFundMe campaign, begun overseas by a supporter who saw Esleem in a media
interview, has raised more than $130,000 to help him rebuild and reopen. "But
I haven't got any of it yet, and it may be difficult to get this amount of
money into Gaza," Esleem said, voicing concern that Israel's long-standing
blockade of the enclave could make it difficult for him to receive the funds. Israel
cites security concerns for Gaza restrictions that Palestinians call collective
punishment. Ramadan El-Njaily, who owned a business and an apartment in the
bombed-out building, placed a sign on the rubble that summed up his despair. "Roya
Print-House, we had a dream here, and they killed it," it read. Israel
says it tried to avoid civilian casualties in targeting militants, including
warning when it was about to strike residential buildings that it alleged also
had a military use. Njaily, 35, said he left the apartment two days before it
was destroyed, fearing for his life after an Israeli air strike hit the road
outside the building. Now his 3-year-old son is living with a grandmother, and
Njaily himself moves from one friend's house to another each day. "I lost
everything," he said.
^ Now this may seem like you are
just going to donate money to help rebuild a bookstore, but by giving money (or
any real support) to them or anyone else in Gaza you would be breaking the laws
of the following countries/organization: Canada, the European Union (Austria,
Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and their territories),
Israel, Japan and the United States since each of these places have officially named Hamas as an
International Terrorist Group. It doesn’t matter if you are a citizen of these
countries or not you can be charged as a Terrorist Supporter as a non-citizen
even if you never visit or live in these places.
To think that after 12 years
(Hamas was elected into office by the Gazans in 2006 and took power in 2007)
every single part of Gazan Society isn’t influenced by Hamas is not very
intelligent.
Nazi Germany ruled for 12 years stretching
roughly 1,505,026 miles (3,898,000 kilometers) with 109,518,183 people.
Gaza is only 25 miles long and 7.5
miles wide (41 kilometers long and 12 kilometers wide) with 1.85 million people.
Nazi Germany had the same amount
of time in power, a much larger territory to govern and more people to control
and yet they had every single section of German Society tightly under their
control. By 1939 supporting any German was the same as supporting the Nazis.
By 2015, supporting any Gazan is the same as
supporting the Hamas Terrorists (even the Palestinians in the West Bank and
Jerusalem think so as they haven’t had direct talks or links with Gaza or Hamas
since then.)
Nazi Germany and Hamas/Palestinians
in Gaza have one thing in common: Officially calling for the complete destruction
of ALL Jews.
So don’t be ignorant and simply
throw your support or money to Gaza/Hamas. ^
https://news.yahoo.com/bookshop-ruins-gazan-hopes-rebuild-081558259.html
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