|
View: 4220|Reply: 10
|
Sambutan Hari Valentine Meriah Di Gaza (8pics)
[Copy link]
|
|
|
100777537Valentine's Day in Gaza by
Ref.Document100777537
HeadlineValentine's Day in Gaza
DateFeb 12, 2014
CreditNurphoto / eyevine
SourceMajdi Fathi/NurPhoto
Brand;
Size/Pixels5616x3744
Palestinian display gift inside the shop are sold in Valenties Day, in Gaza City, on February 12, 2014. Valentines Day falls on Friday. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto) / eyevine Contact eyevine for more information about using this image: T: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 E:
100777536Valentine's Day in Gaza by
Ref.Document100777536
HeadlineValentine's Day in Gaza
DateFeb 12, 2014
CreditNurphoto / eyevine
SourceMajdi Fathi/NurPhoto
Brand;
Size/Pixels4760x3080
Palestinian man presents flowers to be sold at Valentines Day, in Gaza City, on February 12, 2014. Valentines Day falls on Friday. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto) / eyevine Contact eyevine for more information about using this image: T: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 E: [email protected]
100777535Valentine's Day in Gaza by
Ref.Document100777535
HeadlineValentine's Day in Gaza
DateFeb 12, 2014
CreditNurphoto / eyevine
SourceMajdi Fathi/NurPhoto
Brand;
Size/Pixels5616x3744
Palestinian display gift inside the shop are sold in Valenties Day, in Gaza City, on February 12, 2014. Valentines Day falls on Friday. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto) / eyevine Contact eyevine for more information about using this image: T: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 E: [email protected]
100777534Valentine's Day in Gaza by
Ref.Document100777534
HeadlineValentine's Day in Gaza
DateFeb 12, 2014
CreditNurphoto / eyevine
SourceMajdi Fathi/NurPhoto
Brand;
Size/Pixels4968x3232
Palestinian display gift inside the shop are sold in Valenties Day, in Gaza City, on February 12, 2014. Valentines Day falls on Friday. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto) / eyevine Contact eyevine for more information about using this image: T: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709
100777533Valentine's Day in Gaza by
Ref.Document100777533
HeadlineValentine's Day in Gaza
DateFeb 12, 2014
CreditNurphoto / eyevine
SourceMajdi Fathi/NurPhoto
Brand;
Size/Pixels5616x3744
Palestinian display gift inside the shop are sold in Valenties Day, in Gaza City, on February 12, 2014. Valentines Day falls on Friday. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto) / eyevine Contact eyevine for more information about using this image: T: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 E: [email protected] 
Ref.Document100777532
HeadlineValentine's Day in Gaza
DateFeb 12, 2014
CreditNurphoto / eyevine
SourceMajdi Fathi/NurPhoto
Brand;
Size/Pixels5320x3272
Palestinian display gift inside the shop are sold in Valenties Day, in Gaza City, on February 12, 2014. Valentines Day falls on Friday. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto) / eyevine Contact eyevine for more information about using this image: T: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 E: info@eyevi
100777531Valentine's Day in Gaza by
Ref.Document100777531
HeadlineValentine's Day in Gaza
DateFeb 12, 2014
CreditNurphoto / eyevine
SourceMajdi Fathi/NurPhoto
Brand;
Size/Pixels5616x3744
Palestinian display gift inside the shop are sold in Valenties Day, in Gaza City, on February 12, 2014. Valentines Day falls on Friday. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto) / eyevine Contact eyevine for more information about using this image: T: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 E: info@eyevine
Last edited by abgsedapmalam on 14-2-2014 10:07 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kat Malaysia orang islam tak boleh sambut katanya |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
nak sambut wat per... wat tambah dosa jer! |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Celebrating Valentine’s Day with Gaza’s “Ambassador of Love”
Rami Almeghari
The Electronic Intifada City
14 February 2014
ash_00_1-3.jpg Palestinian girls take photos in front of Valentine’s Day decorations in Gaza City, 13 February 2014. (Ashraf Amra / APA images)
Holding a bunch of flowers on the eve of Valentine’s Day, Nida looked cheerful. She was standing in the most well-known flower and souvenir store in Gaza City. “I am going to give this gift to my fiancé and I’m waiting for him to show up at the store. For the past couple of years we have exchanged gifts mainly at this store, not outside,” she said. Open displays of love are “not that widely accepted in our conservative community.” The public relations student told The Electronic Intifada all this while surrounded by customers, mainly girls and women, at the Ambassador of Love store in Gaza City’s al-Wahda Street yesterday. About six workers were busy in the store. One of them was preparing a bunch of flowers, ordered earlier by one of the store’s older customers. With a cheerful smile Shaima, another customer, said jokingly: “I doubt there is something called love in Gaza. I’m here only to feel this occasion and try to have some sort of joy. Why not? I want to buy some chocolates for my family.” In Gaza City yesterday, many such stores were decorated with red objects like flowers, gifts and toys. Waseem Abdo, the owner of the Ambassador of Love, said his store has marked Valentine’s Day for the past 14 years. “This year seems to be much slower for business, compared with past years,” he said. But “many people here in the area [still] come to buy gifts.” Local produceAbdo added that due to the Israeli blockade and Egypt’s enforced closure of many of thetunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border, goods at the store are now mainly local products. “Our gift prices range from $1 to $100,” he said. “Many customers get low-price gifts in a symbolic way, just to mark the occasion. For this particular day, we have been preparing our store for a couple of months.” Abdo said his store’s business has never faced any interruptions from Gaza’s Hamas-led governing authorities. “Since 2007, we have not faced any kind of threats or intimidation by the local authorities. On the contrary, we have been doing our business quite smoothly.” But The Electronic Intifada has learned that this year, some groups of religious preachers have toured the city to urge storekeepers and residents against marking Valentine’s Day. Although it has been commercialized and secularized in the West and globally, Valentine’s Day has it origins in the Feast of Saint Valentine in many different Christian communities. Most people mark Valentine’s Day as an occasion to show affection or appreciation for loved ones, with no reference to religion at all. Yet some devout Muslims consider it outside their concept of Islamic and Arab cultures and therefore think that the holiday should not be marked. The majority of Palestinians are Muslim and Palestine, including Gaza, has an ancient and well-established Christian community. Abdo said that several men wearing beards and head coverings characteristic of certain devout Muslims “came over to my store and started preaching to me” against honoring Valentine’s Day. He said they spoke politely before leaving. “Our work at the store has gone on normally up to this moment,” he added. Abdo explained that “our customers are varied, including young and old people. Valentine’s Day is an occasion on which people express sweet emotions to their loved ones.” Rami Almeghari is a journalist and university lecturer based in the Gaza Strip.
Last edited by abgsedapmalam on 15-2-2014 02:27 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Strip city of love and war
Now preparing citizens in the Gaza Strip to celebrate Valentine's Day which falls on February 14 On this day, the streets ، restaurants, cafes are filled with citizens who came out to celebrate them and their spouses this holiday despite all the.
01/06
Caption
Now preparing citizens in the Gaza Strip to celebrate Valentine's Day which falls on February 14 On this day, the streets ، restaurants, cafes are filled with citizens who came out to celebrate them and their spouses this holiday despite all the.
02/06
Caption
Now preparing citizens in the Gaza Strip to celebrate Valentine's Day which falls on February 14 On this day, the streets ، restaurants, cafes are filled with citizens who came out to celebrate them and their spouses this holiday despite all the.
03/06
Caption
Now preparing citizens in the Gaza Strip to celebrate Valentine's Day which falls on February 14 On this day, the streets ، restaurants, cafes are filled with citizens who came out to celebrate them and their spouses this holiday despite all the.
04/06
Caption
Now preparing citizens in the Gaza Strip to celebrate Valentine's Day which falls on February 14 On this day, the streets ، restaurants, cafes are filled with citizens who came out to celebrate them and their spouses this holiday despite all the.
05/06
Caption
Now preparing citizens in the Gaza Strip to celebrate Valentine's Day which falls on February 14 On this day, the streets ، restaurants, cafes are filled with citizens who came out to celebrate them and their spouses this holiday despite all the.
06/06
Caption
Now preparing citizens in the Gaza Strip to celebrate Valentine's Day which falls on February 14 On this day, the streets ، restaurants, cafes are filled with citizens who came out to celebrate them and their spouses this holiday despite all the.
Report current story
Now preparing citizens in the Gaza Strip to celebrate Valentine's Day which falls on February 14 On this day, the streets ، restaurants, cafes are filled with citizens who came out to celebrate them and their spouses this holiday despite all the.
Submitted by Belal Khaled
+ More stories from Belal Khaled
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kat Gaza sana pun kan terbahagi 3....bukan org2 Muslim je yg dok situ. Apsal bila cerita Gaza, ada yg ingat 100% Muslim? Kristian kat sana pun sambut dgn geng2 Muslim tanda appreciation. Ko jaga aku, aku jaga ko. Di Gaza sendiri ada 3000 penduduk Kristian yg dipanggil Nasara. Jangan terkejut kalau ada yg post gambar sambutan Krismas di Gaza dan ramai yg kata org Palestin dah dikristiankan. Hehe....... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No flowers from Gaza this Valentine's DayBY SUHA DIAB
| FEBRUARY 13, 2015
It is that time of year again when flowers are sold at outrageous prices to satisfy the desires of many bleeding hearts, and to support the well-established economy of love. For many people in Gaza, Valentine's Day is less about romance and more about survival. Between the early 1990s and 2000s, a floral industry, which was encouraged by European donor states, was booming in Gaza. This costly industry requires a significant amount of water and electricity, which is supplied to Gaza by Israel. Over 40 million flowers were sold every year to European markets, especially Holland, mainly to Christmas and Valentine's Day consumers. However, the adverse conditions facing this industry since 2008 are bringing it close to collapse. During the deadly attack on Gaza between December 2008 and January 2009, no goods were allowed in or out of Gaza, with some exceptions.
The Dutch government appealed to the Israeli government to allow the export of flowers to Holland for the celebration of Valentine's Day. Israel agreed to allow a few hundred thousand flowers as an act of goodwill, thus making flowers and the Israeli planes the only objects moving in and out of Gaza. This act of 'goodwill' proved that flowers destined for the celebration of love are more valuable than the people growing them. The majority of these people were, and still are, living in the conditions of an open-air prison. The export restrictions imposed on Gaza since 2008, coupled with the damages to its water and electricity infrastructure from the Israeli bombs, resulted in serious losses to the flower farmers. Many of the expensively grown flowers were being fed to cattle, as the local market was oversaturated. In 2010, the Dutch government promised to support the industry by financing 30 to 60 per cent of the farmers' expenses, but this funding declined, gradually reaching five per cent in December 2014. Given these conditions, the farmers were forced to abandon this promising economy, which for a short period brought some prosperity to Gaza's besieged inhabitants. The rise and fall of this industry points to the deliberate Israeli policy of keeping the Palestinian economy subservient to Israel. This policy, which is supported by many of Israel's Western allies, including Canada and the United States, is justified through a discourse of security and self-defence. Violent acts of collective punishment against the Palestinians -- such as land occupation and confiscations, siege and starvation, fuel and electricity cuts, infrastructure destruction, and assassinations and murders -- are legitimized through a rhetoric of defence. Joseph Massad, a Professor of Modern Arab Politics at Columbia University, notes that this prevailing logic has been powerful tool of oppression since the establishment of the first Israeli colonial settlement in Palestine. Israel, he contends, "has the right to oppress the Palestinians and does so to defend itself, but were the Palestinians to defend themselves against Israel's oppression, which they do not have a right to do, Israel will then have the right to defend itself against their illegitimate defense of themselves against its legitimate oppression of them, which it carries out anyway in order to defend itself legitimately." The floral industry, like most industries in the West Bank and Gaza, is controlled by Israel. The occupation, along with the Oslo Accords signed in 1993, preserved Israel's role as the main supplier of most goods, and as the one having the upper hand on exports. Gaza, Avi Shlaim, an emeritus professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, writes, "is not simply a case of economic under-development but a uniquely cruel case of deliberate de-development… The development of local industry was actively impeded so as to make it impossible for the Palestinians to end their subordination to Israel and to establish the economic underpinnings essential for real political independence…Gaza is a classic case of colonial exploitation in the post-colonial era." The floral industry proved yet again that the Palestinian economy is disposable. Perhaps this should not be surprising, given that Palestinian lives were treated as disposable during the recurring attacks on Gaza. The people of Gaza, however, have responded with resiliency and adaptability. With the slowing down of this industry, many farmers have turned their fields into fertile ground for the growth of other produce. Where once flowers grew, there is now produce intended for Palestinian consumption. And the trucks that transported flowers in earlier times were deployed during the July 2014 attack on Gaza to transport the injured to hospitals. Nevertheless, with the decline of this industry, fewer flowers will make it to Europe this year for Valentine's Day celebrations, pushing Gaza further into poverty and dispossession. Happy Valentine's Day.
Photo: flickr/mrhayata
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Post time 14-2-2014 08:43 PM
变色卡
Author
