'Anti-Semitism' in France is State excuse for banning demonstrations by French Arabs

Violence outside Parissynagogue falsely attributed to anti-Semitism (Updated)

The Post below taken from Mondoweiss, demonstrates that the allegations of anti-Semitism in the French Palestine Solidarity Movement march on July 13^th, enabling the French state to ban Palestine solidarity marches in support of the people of Gaza.   The trouble was entirely provoked by the fascist Jewish Defence League, which even the USA has banned as a ‘terrorist’ organisation.

A YouTube video showing events preceding a well publicized stand off in front a Paris synagogue that shows the violent encounter was provoked by members of the Jewish Defense League.
Update:

Mondoweiss’ story has been confirmed by the President of the Synagogue de la Roquette.

Incidents rue de la Roquette: Serge Benhaïm dément toute attaque de la synagogue - 18/07/2014 à 19h00

Incidents rue de la Roquette: Serge Benhaïm dément toute attaque de la synagogue – 18/07/2014 à 19h00

In an interview broadcast Friday on the 24-hour news channel i-Télé, Serge Benhaïm said that there was “not a single projectile thrown at the synagogue” and that “at no moment, were we ever physically in danger.” (“Pas un seul projectile lancé sur la synagogue”. “A aucun moment, nous n’avons été physiquement en danger.”)

While Benhaïm did not describe the street fight outside as resulting from a JDL “provocation”, he did say that the extremist group smashed up a cafe on Rue de la Roquette (“le président de la synagogue de la rue de la Roquette confirme également que la LDJ a ‘cassé des chaises et des tables’) in order to confront pro-Palestinian demonstrators (“pour aller livrer ce face-à-face”). He added that he did not condone the action, and described the JDL as having a “bad reputation” using a French phrase – “une renommée un peu sulfureuse — that is not done justice by a literal translation.

Benhaïm added that he believes rumors of an attack on the synagogue were spread due to “‘confusion’ between the events that happened near a synagogue at Aulnay-sous-Bois” — a reference to a firebomb thrown at a synagogue in the northeast suburb two days prior to the July 13 demonstration.

According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the front of the synagogue was attacked. No one was hurt and the building only suffered “minor damage.”

It was not, however, something that could be effortlessly and shamelessly linked to thousands of people in the street showing solidarity with the 1.8 million inhabitants of an open-air prison who are currently being bombed by one of the world’s most powerful states.

Original Post:

From multiple expulsions in the Medieval era to L’Affaire Dreyfuss and Vichy collaborationism, French Jews have every reason to be wary of antisemitism. And, sadly, despite the fact that 89 percent of French citizens this year reported having a favorable opinion of Jews, antisemitism appears to be on the rise in the Fifth Republic. 

But a violent incident that took place in Paris on Sunday widely described as antisemitic, using this narrative as the background, was actually a street fight between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and the Jewish Defense League; one that appears to have been started by the extremist latter in support of Israel’s ongoing bombing campaign that has thus far claimed the lives of almost 200 Palestinians – 80% of them civilians. 

That hasn’t stopped powerful anti-Palestinian voices in the U.S. from using Twitter to appropriate the incident for their cause. On the same day he declared there to be a causal relationship between the mass killing of Palestinians by the IDF and the existence of Jews around the world, former Iraq War salesman David Frum highlighted the alleged attack amid his stream of sabre-rattling consciousness. Former IDF Prison Guard and admitted beater of Palestinian detainees Jeffrey Goldberg characterized the violence as “Jews Trapped by Rioters in Paris Synagogue” and questioned whether or not the incident was cause for migration. Dan Gainor, a “nondenominational Chrsitian” and waterboy for a right-wing media watch dog called Media Research Center” declared, in a refreshingly honest fashion for a bigot, that “France shows what happens after lots of #Muslim immigration: Jewish synagogue attacked, besieged.” Avi Mayer, the social media guru for the Zionist NGO, the Jewish Agency of Israel, declared the incident to be an “anti-Semitic riot, which masqueraded as an anti-Israel rally.” Yair Rosenberg, a writer for Tablet Magazine and employee of the Israeli State Archives, posted a video of the incident, describing the clip as capturing “anti-Israel protesters beseiging [sic] it and rioting outside” (it shows pitched battles in the street, filmed from inside the synagogue):  

He then used his inaccurate description of the 25 second video to effortlessly justify both Israeli ethnic cleansing and the IDF’s most recent massacre of Palestinians. “With European anti-Semitic attacks spiking during Israel’s operation,” he declared, “starting to get feeling that some anti-Zionists might not like Jews.” And J-Street, the “pro-Israel, pro-Peace” lobbying group that falsely portrays the ongoing subjugation of Palestinians in as a conflict between equal factions, decried the incident, describing it as “our brothers and sisters in Paris trapped inside a synagogue on Shabbat, pelted with rocks, surrounded by crowds with sticks and chairs and calling for Jewish blood.” 

Unfortunately for the aforementioned hawks and the reporters upon which they relied, the incident was far from an antisemitic attack – a fact laid bare by readily available information.

One of the loudest voices denouncing this false characterization belongs to a Jewish woman named Michèle Sibony, a member of the Union Juive Francaise pour Le Paix – The French Jewish Union for Peace. Sibony, incensed by what she described as an Islamophobic report of the demonstration on a Nouvel Observateur blog, penned an open letter to its editor. Posted on the UJFP website, her side of the story in question, as interpreted by Mondoweiss, is as follows:

“Protester thugs tried to attack the Synagogue de la Roquette? You cite, without flinching, a ‘testimony of the JDL.’ The announcement of the JDL assembly you mention, in support of Israel before the Synagogue de la Roquette, was organized with the eloquent title ‘Keep Calm and Kill Hamas.’ Curiously, when a rally for war crimes takes place in front of or inside a Synagogue, the injection of religion in politics does not shock you, nor does it even register. It requires no commentary from you. It is sufficient to insinuate that the [pro-Palestinian] demonstration was antisemitic. You need that for your cause: silence about crimes in Gaza, of which you say nothing.

So I’ll tell you what I, a poor Jewish infidel, saw…at this protest:on the Boulevard Beaumarchais, right near the Chemin Vert Métro stop, four or five JDL types perched on a bench, completely surrounded and protected by two rows of riot cops, threw projectiles and insults at the crowd. Cops and officials begged the crowd to not lose its cool and respond to provocations – what they were waiting for. Of course, as crowds dispersed, there were fights at the entrance of the Synagogue de la Roquette, as expected, I dare say.”

Sibony also makes no apology for Islamist rebels, declaring that Palestinians have the right to resist Israel’s occupation on their own terms:

The [Israeli] army has occupied and stolen their lands, and they refuse to submit. They’re fighting for liberty, for national liberation, and the independence of Palestine, and against eradication, pure and simple, declared by Israel, for resisting! Yes, Hamas and Jihad militants are resisting the occupation, as all Palestinian political groups are, and even if my heart is to the left, I respect them. Especially when the agenda is their dehumanization, their demonization, and their eradication at all cost. Wouldn’t anyone – white Christians, atheists on the left, or the right wing limousine set – have a title as beautiful as resistance fighter?

But whether or not one disagrees with Sibony’s characterizations of Hamas, which have been applied to many others combating occupation without controversy, a video of the incident on Rue de la Roquette lends credence to her story:

The video, posted on Monday by a user whose library doesn’t appear to include any other video on Israel or Palestine (unlike the anti-Palestinian YouTube user who posted the video shared by Rosenberg), is titled “Pro-Israelis who break everything in front of the Synagogue on Rue de la Roquette” (“Des pro-israéliens qui cassent tout devant la synagogue de la rue de la Roquette”). 

As promised, the video shows extremist Zionists (who had said the day before that they would appear outside of the Synagogue “to support Israel, where the population lives under the rhythm of sirens”) smashing chairs and tables to make weapons. The group forms barricades before pursuing pro-Palestinian demonstrators while yelling “Palestine, we fuck you” (“Palestine, on t’encule”) and throwing missiles. The JDL members pursue the demonstrators, but stop at the nearest intersection. A stand-off ensues, until pro-Palestinian demonstrators themselves respond with militancy and charge, bearing a hastily-cobbled together armory of their own. The JDL members, minus a few comrades who were attacked, retreat behind a line of riot police, and take refuge near the synagogue – without a hint of irony, in light of cynical accusations that Hamas has been employing “human shields” in one of the most densely populated strips of land on earth. The pro-Palestinian combatants withdraw soon after, closely watched by police.

Nowhere does this violence appear to be motivated by hatred of Judaism. But that hasn’t led any of the previously mentioned journalists, flack or their sources to issue corrections.

This is not to say that antisemitic attacks don’t occur in France. Also on Sunday, for example, not far from the Synagogue de la Roquette, the Synagogue de la rue des Tournelles was targeted by a few individuals in an attack that lead to several arrests. Yet, unlike the vivid images captured outside the Synagogue de la Roquette, the rue des Tournelles incident didn’t fuel wild rumors of a mob siege depicting a sizable part of the pro-Palestinian march as antisemitic — an extremely powerful, but ultimately false, tale in these combustible times. 

About Sam Knight

Sam Knight is a freelance journalist who was born, raised and currently lives in Washington DC. He studied French for eight years and went to college in Montreal.

Gaza Reveals the Empty and Vacuous Heart of Owen Jones’s writing

Owen Jones – Concerned About 'anti-Semitism' and using the Holocaust to Excuse Israel's murder of 2,000 Palestinians

Jones on Question Time during the 2012 invasion of Gaza - then there were no excuses for Israel

Alfred Dreyfus - Jewish Office Framed by French Army

Perhaps one should expect no better from a Labour Party member whose main talent lies in sounding both original and radical. However Gaza has revealed just how vacuous are the ideas and analysis of Owen Jones. It is because the ideas he gives expression to are held by a wide circle of people, many of whom are sincere in detesting all that Israel is doing.  I have decided to deconstruct two articles of Jones in the Guardian – How the occupation of Gaza corrupts the occupier [July 21] and anti-Jewish hatred is rising – we must see it for what it is [August 12].

Anatole France oration at Emile Zola's funeral

There is no recognition by Jones that Israel is a settler-colonial country, whose treatment of the indigenous population is no different from similar settler-colonial states. To Israel’s establishment holocaust historians, such as Yehuda Bauer, the idea that the holocaust as unique i.e. with no relevant lessons for humanity as a whole, is an article of faith.  Yad Vashem effectively reserves for the holocaust the job of legitimising the racism of the Israeli state. Whatever Israel does, it is justified by the holocaust.

The degradation of Alfred Dreyfus as his sword his broken

anti-Jewish hatred is rising – we must see it for what it is

Anthropometric photography of Émile Zola at his trial

Indeed one should see anti-Semitism for what it is, a declining and marginal form of prejudice primarily. Instead Jones writes, almost an innocent abroad, that ‘I have encountered sentiments that conflate the Jewish people and the Israeli government’

Fleeing Nazi-Occupied France

How interesting! One of the key demands made by Netanyahu, during negotiations with Abbas, was that he recognises Israel as a Jewish state. What is a Jewish state? A Jewish state is the home of the mythical Jewish nation, i.e. all Jews, wherever they live and whatever country they are citizens of. It is based on the anti-Semitic Zionist idea that Jews are strangers in the countries where they live, living in Exile (Galut) and have more in common with each other than those they live amongst. It is also the basis of the world Jewish conspiracy theory. It is also why there is no Israeli nationality and Israel cannot be a state of its own citizens.

Hence Jones’ dismissal of the idea that ‘Israel is itself the source of anti-Semitism.’ Today is so absurd. Israel claims the barbarities of Operation Child Murder in Gaza not just on behalf of its own Jewish citizens but Jews world-wide. Of course that invites people to attack Jews (something Zionism and the Israeli state don’t mind since it can only provide more Jewish immigrants).

Dreyfus is rehabilitated

Marseille deportations

The ‘New anti-Semitism’

The Zionist movement in the past 30 years faced one major difficulty when accusing its opponents of ‘anti-Semitism’. People not only did not accept that but resented the accusation. Most people know the difference between anti-Semitism (hatred of and discrimination against Jews) and anti-Zionism (opposition to the Israeli state and the movement that founded it).

Hence the concept of a ‘New anti-Semitism’ took root. In the words of leading US neo-cons, Nathan & Ruth Perlmutter, Israel is the ‘Jew among the nations’ [The Real anti-Semitism in America, (NY, 1982], Alan Dershowitz ‘Chutzpah’ (Boston 1991) This at a time when opposition to Apartheid (in South Africa) was reaching a peak. But most people aren’t fooled. You can be anti-Semitic in terms of an individual(s) but not against a government or state, which is not a human being. ‘New’ anti-Semitism was a trick that fooled no one.

Theodor Herzl -  founder of Political Zionism claimed to have been motivated by the Dreyfus Trial, which he didn't mention in his writings, having befriended various anti-Dreyfusards - his conclusion from the Dreyfus Affair?  It was 'futile' to combat the 'old' anti-Semitism

Contrary to Zionist mythology, anti-Semitism does not have an unbroken 2,000 year history. Owen Jones, who has probably never even given the matter any thought, subscribes to this Zionist myth. We might ask then why the Jews were singled out for such opprobrium? It makes no sense but it is integral to the Zionist idea that anti-Semitism cannot be fought because it is ‘a natural prejudice which a settled firmly rooted citizen of a country with an age-long tradition must feel in the presence of a homeless wanderer.’ [Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error, pp. 90-1]

Gestapo HQ in Lyon

Weizmann, who was the first President of Israel and a chemist, described anti-Semitism as an immutable scientific law:  ‘Whenever the quantity of Jews in any country reaches saturation point, that country reacts against them.’ [Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error, p.90-91, NY]

Hitler in Paris

Anti-Semitism was not however a scientific law. In the medieval Classical Period, anti-Semitism was the 

product of the Jews’ role as the oppressors of the peasants. Shahak argues that anti-Semitism was a popular movement from below and the Jews were defended by the elites – the Kings, the Higher Aristocracy and Upper Clergy. By way of contrast, during the Nazi period anti-Semitism was a movement from above, the German state in particular, [Shahak, p.64] and it sought to involve the most backward, usually peasant and lower middle class sections of society. This was the period of ‘scientific’ racism, which were popular in the main imperial heartlands to justify their Empires.

Rather than pontificating on something he knows nothing about, Jones could read the slim book by the late Professor Israel Shahak of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem Jewish History Jewish religion [Pluto Press, 1994, London]. Shahak, as well as being an active fighter for civil rights in Israel, was a childhood survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and Belsen concentration camp.

Emile Zola's famous open letter of 1898 that led to the eventual acquittal of Dreyfus

Until the mid-19^th Century in Eastern Europe anti-Semitism was based on the Jews’ actual social and economic role and Christian anti-Semitism aimed to secure the conversion of Jews. Nazi anti-Semitism was different. It was based on the idea that Jews were members of a different race and could never change. Hence the phenomenon in Germany and Nazi occupied countries of Christian Jews, who attended church wearing the yellow star.

Jews being deported from Nazi-occupied France

It is important to stress that both the anti-Semites and the Zionists shared the belief that Jews did not belong in the countries they were born in. Alfred Rosenberg, theoretician of the Nazi Party, who was hanged in the major war crimes trial at Nuremberg, wrote that:

Zionism must be vigorously supported in order to encourage a significant number of German Jews to leave for Palestine or other destinations.’ Zionism could be used ‘as legal justification for depriving German Jews of their civil rights…. He sanctioned the use of the Zionist movement in the future drive to eliminate Jewish rights, Jewish influence and eventually the Jewish presence in Germany.’  [Die Spur, p.153. Francis Nicosia, The Third Reich and the Palestine Question, pp. 25-26, Edwin Black, Ha’avara – The Transfer Agreement p. 173.

If you had listened to the Zionist ideologues who founded the movement, you would have been forgiven for thinking that you were listening to anti-Semites. Pinhas Rosenbluth, the first Justice Minister of Israel, wrote that Palestine was ‘an institute for the fumigation of Jewish vermin’. [Joachim Doron, ‘Classic Zionism and modern anti-semitism: parallels and influences’ (1883-1914), Studies in Zionism 8, Autumn 1983]  

Kurt Blumenfeld, the leader of German Zionism, held almost identical views. In a letter to Walter Rathenau, Foreign Minister in a Weimar Government, who was assassinated in 1922, he spelt out the Zionist position:  ‘Under no circumstance does a Jew have the right to represent the affairs of another people.’ [N. Weinstock, Zionism: A False Messiah, p. 135. Isaac Deutscher, the biographer of Trotsky, wrote that: ‘to the [Polish] Jewish workers ‘anti-Semitism seemed to triumph in Zionism, which recognised the legitimacy and the validity of the old cry ‘Jews get out!' The Zionists were agreeing to get out.’ 'The Non Jewish Jew ' & Other Essays-The Russian Revolution and the Jewish Question' pp.66/7. In Poland the Zionists had had a significant base, but as anti-Semitism based they declined such that in the 1938 elections for Jewish seats in Warsaw, the anti-Zionist Bund won 17 of the 20 seats and the Zionists precisely one.

Abram Leon, a leader of Belgian Trotskyism, who was murdered in Auschwitz, wrote that Zionism ‘transposes modern anti-Semitism to all of history; it saves itself the trouble of studying the various forms of anti-Semitism and their evolution.’ [The Jewish Question:  A Marxist Interpretation, 1974, p.247] 

When Jones wrote that ‘The Jewish  people faced persecution for millennia from York, Czarist Russia to the Dreyfuss affair’ he ignores what actually happened in the Dreyfuss Affair of 1894, when a Jewish captain was wrongfully accused of treason. The anti-Semites led by Eduord Drumont thought they had found a cause with which to roll back Jewish Emancipation and the Declaration of the Rights of Man but they were very mistaken. Republican France rallied to the defence of Dreyfuss once it was clear that although initially a mistake had been made, by  1896 a full-scale anti-Semitic cover up was taking place. Emile Zola wrote his famous ‘J'Accuse’ and by 1899 it was clear that Dreyfuss was innocent. Recalled from Devil’s island the Army sought to save face and he was convicted in another trial and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. Immediately Dreyfuss was pardoned. The attitude of the founder of  Political Zionism, Theodor Herzl, was that ‘In Paris..., I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, recognise the emptiness and futility of trying to 'combat' anti-Semitism.’ [Diaries of Theodore Herzl, Gollancz, London 1958 p.6.]

Paris street scene - Jewish quarter of Paris

As Rabbi Elmer Berger wrote ‘Where in all the world a century before, would more than half a nation have come to the defense of a Jew? Had Herzl possessed a knowledge of history, he would have seen in the Dreyfuss case a brilliant, hearten­ing proof of the success of emancipation.’ [D. Stewart. ‘Theodore Herzl-Artist and Politician, p. 167, Quartet Books, London,, 1974.]

There is a myth that Herzl was converted to the Zionist idea by the Dreyfuss Affair. There is no evidence for this and the Affair is not even mentioned in his formative pamphlet, The Jewish State, published in 1896 and is only mentioned in passing in his 4 volume   Diaries. What Herzl did do was secure a favourable review of The Jewish  State in Drumont’s anti-Semitic daily La Libre Parole.

It was this successful battle against anti-Semitism that made opposition to anti-Semitism a foundation stone of Republican France. Over 40 years later it was still felt when the non-Jewish population defended the Jews under Nazi occupation. The Nazis didn’t even dare introduce the Yellow Star and in Paris some 30,000 Jews lived openly. This explains why half of France’s Jews survived the occupation (most of those who died were Jewish refugees in France).

What is true is that the very same anti-Semitic tropes that were used against the Jews are now being employed against the Palestinians. Jones writes that ‘Hatred of the Jewish people has persisted in European societies for two millennia, manifesting itself in blood libel…’ Presumably he doesn’t read the paper he writes a weekly column for. On August 11^th 2014 the Guardian ran an ad co-written by Elie Wiesel, which stated that:  ‘Jews rejected child sacrifice 3,500 years ago. How its Hamas’s turn.’ http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.609768  

It is based on the Israeli lie that Hamas uses children as human shields when the opposite is true. The Israel Defence Forces admitted it had used Palestinians as human shields; it acknowledged using human shields 1,200 times during the Second Intifada. The practice was banned by Israel's High Court of Justice in 2005. The Israeli Defense Ministry appealed this decision. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4333982.stm

The fact that anyone gives credence to the Israeli propaganda that Hamas uses children as human shields is proof itself of how biased the media and the BBC are.

How the occupation of Gaza corrupts the occupier

When Jones turned his attention to the holocaust he was equally out of his depth. He argued that the ‘Crucial difference with Israel (is)… The moral corruption that comes with any occupation has fused with the collective trauma of the Jewish people.’ But this ignores the Zionist record concerning the holocaust. 

When the survivors first began arriving in Israel they were treated with hostility. Unlike the brave Israelis, who had murdered and dispossessed the Palestinians with equanimity, the survivors had gone like lambs to the slaughter without resistance. The fact that they had no arms to defend themselves with was ignored. 

In Israel, holocaust survivors were termed 'soap' - sapon. "The term has since become generic for cowardice and weakness.” [Israel: Founders & Sons, Amos Elon, p. 209, Weidenfeld, 1971].  

Hanzi Brand, the wife of the deputy leader of Hungarian Zionism, Joel Brand, wrote of how, when she settled on Kibbutz Gvata Haim, the other members ‘talked about their war to avoid hearing about hers. They were ashamed of the Holocaust.’ [Tom Segev, The Seventh Million, 1991 p. 471]

When Jones wrote that ‘‘In Israeli society here is a victim mentality that is deeply, deeply rooted in the holocaust…’ he failed to understand that this is also true in nearly all settler-colonial countries. In South Africa, the death of 28,000 civilians in British concentration camps was seared into the consciousness of Afrikaaner nationalism and helped justify the system of apartheid. The Boers and Whites of South Africa also had a victim mentality. So too did the settlers of what became the  United States of America and the colonists who were transported to Australia.

In short Owen Jones should steer clear of Palestine, Zionism and anti-Semitism since he knows absolutely nothing about his subject and engages in the same tired and worn clichés. 

Irish senator David Norris condemns complicity of Irish Government

The Irish Government subservience to Western foreign policy demonstrates its 'independence' is an illusion

Irish senator and former presidential candidate David Norris made a powerful speech on 31 July condemning Israel’s massacre in Gaza and the complcity of American, Irish and other European governments.

One could take issue with his statements about the transformation of Israel from a social democratic into a far-right state, as the complicity of the Israeli Labour Party demonstrates, but his undoubted passion and his targeting of the present  Irish government is spot on.

Tony Greenstein

Simon Cobbs, Chair of Sussex Friends of Israel, demonstrates alongside the EDL in Manchester

A Natural Alliance - Zionists and Fascists Demonstrate Together

You couldn’t make it up.  There is Simon Cobbs, along with the EDL and Beitar (an openly fascist Zionist group) shouting ‘racist’ at demonstrators opposing Kedem, a store claiming to be British but stocking goods sourced in the occupied territories of Palestine.

The fact that many in the EDL are holocaust deniers is irrelevant, given that the true Zionist attitude to the holocaust was that the Jews of Europe were responsible for their own demise (for not emigrating to Jewish  Palestine   or resisting).  In Israel, opponents of an anti-war demonstration wore symbols that Europeanneo-Nazis wear on demonstrations.  

Below is a video of Cobbs and the rest of the unsavoury company.

Statistics of Attacks on Basic Service Facilities

Israel's war against civilians - a war crime

The statistics below are proof, if any were needed, that Israel's assault on Gaza has nothing to do with

'rockets' or 'self-defence'.  It is a calculated assault on the civilians of Gaza.

Al Quds hospital struck by white phosphorous

 It is the civilians who are blamed for the resistance to Israel's occupation.  Honest right-wingers, such as the woman  who in a previous story described herself as a 'little bit of a fascist' was quite explicit - Palestinian cities like Gaza need to be wiped off the map.  If they won't accept Israel's domination then they must die or lea.  

 Another Military Target Destroyed - Al Wafa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre

Israel's Orthodox Rabbinate, led by the Chief Military Rabbi Ronski, are open about the Palestinians being the old Amalek, whose cities were destroyed in biblical times.

Another Destroyed Hospital in Gaza

Tony Greenstein

Last Updated: 10:00 am, Saturday, 02
 August 2014

Targeted Facilities	Number	Complete Destruction	Extensive Damage	Partial Destruction	Deaths	Wounded
Hospitals	7	2	3	2	3	40
Clinics and health centers	18	2	16	-	-	-
Ambulances	12	9	3	-	-	-
Medical personnel	-	-	-	-	10	33
Water and electricity services workers	-	-	-	-	7	5
Water wells	-	-	-	-	-	-
Water desalination plants	2	2	-	-	-	-
Major water tanks	2	2	-	-	-	-
Sewage treatment plants	1	1	-	-	-	-
UNRWA schools and shelters	6	-	6	-	26	Dozens
Gaza Power Plant	-	Major fuel saving tanks	-	-	-	-
Electricity supplying lines from Israel	-	6 lines providing 72 megawatts	-	-	-	-[1]

Forcible Displacement in the Gaza Strip

Last updated: 10:00 am, Saturday, 02 August 2014

Number	Category
240,000	Displaced civilians in UNRWA schools
16,000	Displaced civilians in public schools
264,000	Total of displaced civilians
6	Shelters that have been attacked (UNRWA schools)
520,000	Total Displaced