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<h1 class="article-title">Gaza Municipality: Targeting Public
Facilities a Willful Crime</h1>
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<span class="article-detail"><img class="icon"
src="cid:part1.02030000.02040608@freedomarchives.org"
alt="author"> Sunday July 13, 2014 23:03</span><span
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src="cid:part2.07030005.05060708@freedomarchives.org"
alt="author"> by Chris Carlson <br>
<b><small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imemc.org/article/68459">http://www.imemc.org/article/68459</a></small></small></b><br>
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<p class="article-subtitle">Gaza hospitals in crisis</p>
<blockquote class="article-intro">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.</blockquote>
<p class="article">According to Al ray, in a press conference held
Sunday, a spokesman of the municipality said:<br>
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"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."<br>
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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: <br>
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"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."<br>
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The municipality holds the occupation fully responsible for the
disruption of its work in Gaza, Al Ray further reports. <br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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"We need drugs, materials, medical assistance, fuel – we need
everything," he said .<br>
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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:<br>
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<i>"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.</i><br>
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Related: <a sl-processed="1"
href="http://imemc.org/article/68460" target="_blank">Israel
Airstrike Bombs Major Water Line, Sewage Station and Water Wells
in Gaza</a><br>
<br>
<a sl-processed="1" href="http://imemc.org/article/68454"
target="_blank">Israel Tells Thousands of Palestinians: Leave
Your Homes, Or You Will Be Subjected To Bombing</a><br>
<br>
<a sl-processed="1" href="http://imemc.org/article/68445"
target="_blank">International Peace Volunteers Remain in
Hospital Threatened by Israeli Missiles</a><br>
<br>
<a sl-processed="1" href="http://imemc.org/article/68444"
target="_blank">Egyptian Authorities Bar European Medics from
Gaza</a> </p>
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