Free Food Poisoning and Other Gifts from the International Community
It’s not like Gaza hasn’t seen enough damage. In a place where most the population is impoverished and dispossessed, when it rains it indeed pours
New sources confirm that nearly 80 female students have been transferred to the local Nassir hospital in Khan Younis (South of Gaza City), as a result of food poisoning. The all-female elementary and junior high school has 500 students enrolled, of which 80 suffered the illness. As the report confirms, the food was donated by a relief organization that has yet to be named.
According to one comment on a news article, the food poisoning was mostly minor and most students have already left the hospital.
According to the hospital director, Dr. Yousef Abu Al-rish, it was the result of bad food, and not juice, as some earlier rumors indicated.
This shows that in life you get what you pay for. And in the Palestinian case, dependence on external aid is poisoning our society, as badly as it does our kids’ stomachs. It is making us sick, yet it is a dependency built into the Israeli occupation, American foreign policy, and the international institutions and NGOs who pay the costs of this deadly occupation.
While many aid groups have good intents, no doubt, the net effect is the continued downward spiral of life in Palestine.
