Notes from the field: Return to the ruin that is Gaza

Journal of Palestine Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 23-35

  Loewenstein, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; POLITICAL CHANGE; POLITICAL CONFLICT; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

AFRICA; GAZA; MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34347377347     PISSN: 0377919X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/jps.2007.36.3.23     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. In March 2007, a waste reservoir finally burst and the ensuing flood of sewage water killed four people, two of them children, and destroyed the nearby village. The wastewater plant, it was reported, had been designed to serve 50,000 people, but was in fact serving closer to 200,000. See, for example, Harvey Morris, "Four Killed as Gaza Reservoir Bursts," Financial Times, 27 March 2007.
2. See the Human Rights Watch report entitled "Israel: Gaza Beach Investigation Ignores Evidence. IDF's Partisan Probe No Substitute for Independent Inquiry," available online at hrw.org.
3. Up to now-March 2007-none of those kidnapped, except for BBC journalist Alan Johnston, has been harmed or kept for longer than a fortnight. Kidnapped on 13 March 2007, Johnston has been neither released nor located. Like most of the other foreigners kidnapped, he is sympathetic to the Palestinian plight, making any harm done to him incomprehensible as well as morally wrong.
4. A number of violent attacks against internet cafés, music shops, and the like have occurred in Gaza, but Hamas has disclaimed responsibility.