[News] Gaza Municipality: Targeting Public Facilities a Willful Crime

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  Gaza Municipality: Targeting Public Facilities a Willful Crime

author Sunday July 13, 2014 23:03author by Chris Carlson
*http://www.imemc.org/article/68459*

Gaza hospitals in crisis

    The Municipality of Gaza says that the Israel's targeting of its
    facilities and staff is a willful crime. Gaza hospitals are
    straining under the pressure inflicted by Israel's current string of
    assaults on the Strip, and are in dire need of assistance and supplies.

According to Al ray, in a press conference held Sunday, a spokesman of 
the municipality said:

"The municipality is working hard to ensure the access of water to 
homes, maintain the streets clean, help the ambulance crews, and remove 
the ruins of the destroyed buildings."

The wilful attacks on water sources such as groundwater wells in the 
North governorate and the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City, as well 
as the main waste water treatment facility west of Gaza City constitutes 
a collective punishment, the statement read, adding:

"The [Israeli] ooccupation is seeking to target all sources of life by 
bombing the headquarters of the municipality, "Al-Sadaqa Garden", and 
water collection pools, and destroying over 190 houses completely, and 
hundreds partially."

The municipality holds the occupation fully responsible for the 
disruption of its work in Gaza, Al Ray further reports.

It is demanding that the international community and human rights 
organizations rein in the aggression, and carry out their duties towards 
the municipalities of Gaza.

It confirms that all municipal councils through the Gaza Strip will 
continue to serve the community and pay tribute to the employees, there, 
who are still on the job.

Rafah crossing opened for one day, this morning, to allow the exit for 
treatment of those injured over the past three days who cannot be 
treated in Gaza, but this is not enough, according to Hamas spokesperson 
Fawzy Barhoum.

"We need drugs, materials, medical assistance, fuel -- we need 
everything," he said .

The Middle East Monitor reports that the spokesman said, today, that the 
only way this "one-sided war" will end is when Israel stops bombing Gaza:

/"We are being attacked from the sea, from the air, from the land -- 
there is massive destruction, and we have the right to defend our people 
from these attacks. There will be no ceasefire until the occupation 
stops its shelling of Gaza... We have sustained high numbers of 
casualties -- over 100 civilians dead, 150 homes destroyed sometimes 
with families still inside them, we are the victims. We are defending 
our civilians from a massacre," said Barhoum, early this afternoon, from 
outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City./

Related: Israel Airstrike Bombs Major Water Line, Sewage Station and 
Water Wells in Gaza <http://imemc.org/article/68460>

Israel Tells Thousands of Palestinians: Leave Your Homes, Or You Will Be 
Subjected To Bombing <http://imemc.org/article/68454>

International Peace Volunteers Remain in Hospital Threatened by Israeli 
Missiles <http://imemc.org/article/68445>

Egyptian Authorities Bar European Medics from Gaza 
<http://imemc.org/article/68444>

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