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When
visitors of the Rafah refugee Camp saw the camp, they
thought that it was struck with an earthquake, but
when they took their tour in the area after the partial
withdrawal of the IDF which had been under attack
those past three weeks, they discovered that it was
the Israeli Army which demolished houses, demolished
trees, demolished agricultural houses, demolished
water stations, demolished electricity stations, cut
the phone lines, killed about 17 people and over 124
injured, most of them were seriously.
It
seems international officials hadn't heard about Rafah
… they haven't heard about those children who
were seeking water day and night at a time that the
Israeli bulldozers and tanks had been demolishing
their water stations ...
Peter
Henson, UNRWA spokesman, was the only person who visited
the area and took a tour between the rubble of the
houses after the withdrawal from Yebana Refugee Camp.
When he saw these crimes he described them by saying:
'We have very very significant damage to the refugee
camp.'
Many
people are still unaccounted for, and it is not known
whether they were demolished together with their houses
or were arrested by Israeli soldiers ... Feeling the
plight of the people is something easy while walking
in the camps which has all turned into rubble. I interviewed
an old woman sitting in one of the tents at sunset
and she had her hand on her face. Her name is Um Ali
Redwan, a 65 year old woman who has 33 members to
her house which had consisted of three floors. When
I asked her about what was wrong, she answered me
by saying: 'thinking! Thinking of this time when I
was yesterday with my family living in our house and
now I am sitting in this tent which is not protecting
me from the cold weather .. This time we lost everything.
Children lost their clothes, I lost all my furniture,
and all things turned to rubble. In the meantime,
everyone is watching us. My sons and their children
have all become homeless, and me and my old husband
who is ill also...' The tears began to fall down her
cheeks and she said: 'The occupation didn’t respect
this white hair... Israeli bulldozer drivers did not
respect my old age and my old man's age. How I will
be after this?'
"Tent".
This word became really famous now, spoken about by
all the children in Rafah Refugee Camp. The people
go to the moon nowadays while the families in Rafah
are still sleeping on the ground even sometimes without
beds, just under this white sheet that is called a
tent. They had been living in their homes, but Israeli
bulldozers did not leave anyone in the Rafah Refugee
Camp. They were partially withdrawing from the area
leaving a large numbers of homeless families, and
many paralyzed and innocent children ...
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