Jakarta, NU Online
"Dhompet Dhuafa" (DD) charity institution will build artesian wells and clean water installations for the people of Gaza, Palestine, to enable them to get clean water, a spokesman said.
"Now the people of Gaza are suffering under the pressure of Israel. Their clean water supply comes from Israel," DD Program Director Arifin Purwakananta said here Monday.<<>br />
Gaza residents are in constant fear that their clean water supply will be stopped any time by Israel or be poisoned , he said.
DD plans to make five to ten artesian wells and clean water installations to meet the Gaza people`s need for clean water, he added.
Last Friday (June 4), DD sent four volunteers, consisting of medical personnel and a journalist to Gaza from Jakarta via Egypt.
Another organization actively sending humanitarian aid to Gaza is MER-C (Medical Emergency Rescue Committee).
In an article entitled "More Than Just A Massacre" published by Australia`s ABC on its website, Michael Brull wrote that the recent Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla was bringing water filtration equipment to Gaza.
"The reason it chose to do so was because there is virtually no clean drinking water in Gaza. Partially due to the damage done to greenhouses during Israel`s attacks on Gaza from 2008-2009, Gaza`s water supply system was reported to be on the verge of collapse in September last year. There was an urgent need to find clean drinking water, because, as Amnesty International had pointed out, some 90-95 percent of water in Gaza was not fit for drinking," he further wrote.
Kate Allen, head of Amnesty International UK said, "Israel's continuing blockade of Gaza is preventing the importation of urgently-needed materials to repair water and sewage treatment works."
As noted in the Ha'aretz report, the unclean drinking water had caused respiratory and intestinal problems to babies in Gaza, wrote Michael Brull, who has a featured blog at Independent Australian Jewish Voices.
Victoria Brittain pleaded in the Guardian for "just one corner of the blockade" to be lifted "to let water works begin and to give infant lives a chance," Bull wrote.
The people of Gaza have been on a diet for years. They have lost weight. Their children`s growth has been stunted, their babies have suffered anemia. Lately, most Gazans do not have clean drinking water. (ant/dar)
"Dhompet Dhuafa" (DD) charity institution will build artesian wells and clean water installations for the people of Gaza, Palestine, to enable them to get clean water, a spokesman said.
"Now the people of Gaza are suffering under the pressure of Israel. Their clean water supply comes from Israel," DD Program Director Arifin Purwakananta said here Monday.<<>br />
Gaza residents are in constant fear that their clean water supply will be stopped any time by Israel or be poisoned , he said.
DD plans to make five to ten artesian wells and clean water installations to meet the Gaza people`s need for clean water, he added.
Last Friday (June 4), DD sent four volunteers, consisting of medical personnel and a journalist to Gaza from Jakarta via Egypt.
Another organization actively sending humanitarian aid to Gaza is MER-C (Medical Emergency Rescue Committee).
In an article entitled "More Than Just A Massacre" published by Australia`s ABC on its website, Michael Brull wrote that the recent Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla was bringing water filtration equipment to Gaza.
"The reason it chose to do so was because there is virtually no clean drinking water in Gaza. Partially due to the damage done to greenhouses during Israel`s attacks on Gaza from 2008-2009, Gaza`s water supply system was reported to be on the verge of collapse in September last year. There was an urgent need to find clean drinking water, because, as Amnesty International had pointed out, some 90-95 percent of water in Gaza was not fit for drinking," he further wrote.
Kate Allen, head of Amnesty International UK said, "Israel's continuing blockade of Gaza is preventing the importation of urgently-needed materials to repair water and sewage treatment works."
As noted in the Ha'aretz report, the unclean drinking water had caused respiratory and intestinal problems to babies in Gaza, wrote Michael Brull, who has a featured blog at Independent Australian Jewish Voices.
Victoria Brittain pleaded in the Guardian for "just one corner of the blockade" to be lifted "to let water works begin and to give infant lives a chance," Bull wrote.
The people of Gaza have been on a diet for years. They have lost weight. Their children`s growth has been stunted, their babies have suffered anemia. Lately, most Gazans do not have clean drinking water. (ant/dar)
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