Place: Shiekh Zayed neighborhood North Gaza Governorate.
Time: Morning 19th, March. 2012.
A bird also watching the Sun rising.
Monday, 19 March 2012
Sunday, 18 March 2012
Saturday, 17 March 2012
Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (Arabic: محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني; 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات) or by his kunya Abu Ammar (Arabic: أبو عمار, 'Abū `Ammār), was a Palestinian leader and a Laureate of the Nobel Prize. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA),[2] and leader of the Fatah political party, which he founded in 1959.[3] Arafat spent much of his life fighting against Israel in the name of Palestinian self-determination. Originally opposed to Israel's existence, he modified his position in 1988 when he accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242. Arafat and his movement operated from several Arab countries. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Fatah faced off with Jordan in a brief civil war. Forced out of Jordan and into Lebanon, Arafat and Fatah were major targets of Israel's 1978 and 1982 invasions of that country.
Palestinian Legislative Council - Gaza
The Palestinian Legislative Council, (sometimes referred to as the Palestinian Parliament) the legislature of the Palestinian Authority, is a unicameral body with 132 members, elected from 16 electoral districts in the West Bank and Gaza. The headquarters of the Palestinian Legislative Council is in Rimal, Gaza.
Al-karmel Secondary School For Boys, Al-remal, Gaza, Palestine
Rashad Shawa Cultural Center in Gaza
Rashad al-Shawa
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rashad al-Shawa (Arabic: رشاد الشوا) (1909-September 28, 1988) was the Palestinian mayor of Gaza for eleven years from 1975 to 1982. Before becoming mayor he was an outgoing local activist in the city. He was known by Israelis and Palestinians as the pro-Jordanian "father figure" of the Gaza Strip.[1]
[edit]Early life
Born into the well-known Shawa family in Gaza, son of wealthy land owner and former mayor Said al-Shawa who was the South Palestine representative in then Supreme Muslim Council during the British Mandate of Palestine which was headed by Amin Husseini. Rashad's mother was Lebanese. Rashad received his primary and secondary education in public schools in the city. In 1934, he graduated from the American University in Cairo with a degree in politics and economics. That year he established the first sports club in Gaza called the Center for Youth Welfare. In 1935, he was assigned the post of caretaker of a Muslim shrine in Haifa, and during his residence there, he came into contact with Arab revolutionary Izz ad-Din al-Qassam.[2]
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, he helped organize the smuggling of arms from Iraq and Lebanon to the Arab Liberation Army under Fawzi al-Qawuqji. He returned to Gaza during this time period. In 1950, he founded the newspaper Sha'ab al-Arabiya ("The Arab Nation"). It was the mouthpiece of the Palestinians and he presided over the editing but it ended after an eight month circulation. Shawa was appointed by Egyptian president Muhammad Naguib to "cleanse" Gaza of corruption and any remnants of the monarchy of Farouk of Egypt.[2]
[edit]Role as mayor
Shawa was appointed mayor of Gaza by Israel in 1971.[1] He took over responsibility for the management of the municipality and made the decision to not annex adjacent Palestinian refugee camps to the city such as al-Shati and Jabalia. He commenced the development of the economic sector in the Gaza Strip, working on major projects for the export of locally-grown citrus to the Arab world, and establishing a juice factory which still exists off Salah al-Din Street.[2] Shawa was deposed in 1982 for failing to cooperate with Israeli military rule of the Gaza Strip, but his local influence remained strong largely because of his chairmanship of the Gaza Benevolent Society, which dispensed Jordanian funds.[1]
During the First Intifada, Shawa sympathized with the Palestinians saying "People here have reached a point where they don't see much difference between life and death under the insulting and degrading conditions of military occupation." On September 28, 1988, Shawa died of a heart attack in his Gaza home at 79 years of age.[1] That same year, the Rashad Shawa Cultural Center in Gaza was established.[2]
[edit]References
^ a b c d Rashad al-Shawa, 79, Ex-Palestinian Mayor New York Times. 1988-09-28.
^ a b c d Rashad al-Shawa, 1972 and 1975 Gaza Municipality.
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