Subhuman Koranic Sewage in Israel Builds Homes of Same Material

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Gazans Building Houses Out Of Mud

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090507/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_palestinians_gaza_mud_huts

Of course, the sheik-owned Yahoo News must blame this primitivity on Israel (yes, it is all the Jews' fault), but an interesting and somewhat funny story nonetheless. Since we all know what Muslims are like, we know that this is truly their element--I bet these pigs regret not having access to their true dream material, elephant dung.

SerbAvenger

Running short of concrete, Gazans build mud homes
By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer
– 28 mins ago

RAFAH, Gaza Strip – The dirt under Yousef Hamida's feet has become an unlikely resource: He is using it to build a home, a result of Israel's refusal to allow construction materials into the Gaza Strip.

The farmer, who is among thousands of Gazans left homeless by Israel's recent military assault, spends his days making bricks from mud and straw. He hopes to complete a two-bedroom house for his wife and three children on the family's small plot of land in southern Gaza in the next few weeks.

"All I want is to have walls that can shelter me and my family — and here we are," said Hamida, 32, as he packed the mud into brick molds.

Hamida's home is a sign of Gaza resourcefulness — and a striking symbol of how little has changed since Israel ended its fierce three-week military operation in January.

The offensive, meant to halt years of Palestinian rocket attacks, destroyed 2,500 homes, badly damaged 1,000 others and left 30,000 in need of minor repairs, such as replacing broken windows, the U.N. estimates.

Four months later, nothing has been rebuilt, despite international pledges of $5.2 billion in construction aid. Israel will not allow badly needed building materials into the coastal territory, citing security concerns.

Israel and neighboring Egypt have kept Gaza under blockade since the militant Hamas seized power in Gaza in June 2007. Since then, they have allowed in humanitarian aid and small amounts of commercial goods.

Israel will not let in large shipments of raw materials, fearing Hamas will use cement, metal and other basic goods to reinforce its weapons-smuggling tunnels and build rockets.

Israel defense officials also say Hamas is bringing in cement through tunnels, though smugglers say Egypt clamped down on the shipments in April.

The blockade has forced thousands of Gazans to live in sprawling tent camps as they wait to rebuild their homes. Many others have used thick plastic greenhouse panels to replace smashed windows and old tin sheets weighed down with rocks to cover holes in roofs.

But mud brick homes are for Gaza's lucky few. Most residents in the crowded strip live in apartment blocks and only a handful own land.

Hamida's home was destroyed in an airstrike that targeted tunnels used to smuggle goods and weapons underneath the nearby Egyptian border. Since then, he has been living in a rented apartment in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.

Running out of rent money, he met two neighbors building mud homes and decided to make his own.

One neighbor has finished. The three-bedroom structure has a small kitchen, electricity, mud-brick beds and crevices in the smoothed-down walls for lamps. A family with nine children already lives there.

Hamida's mud-brick home will cost $3,500, a fraction of the cost of a concrete home. It will be ready in weeks, and could last for generations.

"Our grandfathers lived in mud houses and some of them are still standing," Hamida said.

The building technique is simple: One friend hauls soil in a handcart, Hamida mixes it with water and straw, stomping it with his feet. He then packs it into a mold and leaves it to harden for a few days. The two-brick thick wall is cemented together with wet mud. Another friend is sorting out the sewage pipes, and Hamida will wire up his house when he's done. The windows will be wooden slats.

Gaza's Hamas rulers say they intend to build a school, a clinic and a mosque out of mud-clay bricks but haven't begun yet, said Hamas Housing Minister Yousef al-Mansi.

Requests from international aid groups for help are still unanswered.

The U.N. says it made a request to Israel in April to ship in more than 130,000 tons of cement and massive quantities of glass, paint, wood and steel to start rebuilding.

"We have made the request repeatedly, and it's not getting into Gaza," said U.N. spokesman Christopher Gunness.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said the U.N. could not provide assurances the building materials would not taken by Hamas. "They can't, or won't, provide a guarantee," Palmor said.

For a lucky few, though, the answer to Gaza's housing problems lies in the ground.

"I'm thinking about building my own house now," said Nidal Eid, 29, who is helping Hamida build his house.

"God created Adam using mud," he said. "It's the source of life."

[Hyades]

But they know that without Israel they wouldn't even have tap water and electricity. If they destroy their own infrastructure, it is their own fault. They behave like gorillas so let them live like gorillas! 

[Zelhar]

Hamida's home was destroyed in an airstrike that targeted tunnels used to smuggle goods and weapons underneath the nearby Egyptian border.

By all likelihood this man was using his house as a cover to dig tunnels and to smuggle.

[drlmg]

Boo Hoo!!!

[ag337]

The most interesting thing about this article is that it's total garbage.

They are not living like this since the last military assault by Israel.
They have been living like that since the day they got there.
They have never had an infrastructure to destroy.
They have always lived in filth; and that has been their choice, any funds received in Gaza for rebuilding and/or restructuring has never been used for that purpose.  Those funds have been used for activities related to terrorism activities against Israel.

Any of the members here who have been in Israel or presently live there can tell you that this is true.
They have never lived in clean and/or sanitary conditions.

[Confederate Kahanist]

Yet more lies from the leftist media to blame Israel for the living conditions of the Muzzies. 

[drlmg]

The most interesting thing about this article is that it's total garbage.

They are not living like this since the last military assault by Israel.
They have been living like that since the day they got there.
They have never had an infrastructure to destroy.
They have always lived in filth; and that has been their choice, any funds received in Gaza for rebuilding and/or restructuring has never been used for that purpose.  Those funds have been used for activities related to terrorism activities against Israel.

Any of the members here who have been in Israel or presently live there can tell you that this is true.
They have never lived in clean and/or sanitary conditions.

Yes, that is what needs to be said by the media. There was never a decent infrastructure to begin with. I have read and used to know of a website that lists the huge amount of money wasted given to the "Palestinians" and I wondered why they were living in such squalor. With the amount of aid given annually they should be an extremely wealthy lot.  Is it true that most children there don't even go to school and there is no public edumacation system? I guess they don't need a formal education to do what they aspire to do. I would think that the way they are living in sewage huts is all they know thus all they want. Pigs like sewage.