ชีวิตติดๆ ดับๆ ในกาซา | ร้อยเรื่องรอบโลก EP313 | รอบโลก by กรุณา บัวคำศรี

The sun sets on the horizon. The darkness begins to set. If not for other areas that are the farthest away or extremely difficult to reach, the electricity will be turned on to drive away the darkness. But not in the small area of 360 square kilometers that has a population of almost 2 million people. On the other hand, Gaza is the longest long-distance conflict zone in the world. The entry and exit of this area is strictly controlled. There are high-rise walls. Israeli forces are inspecting. The life behind the wall is no different from being in an open-air prison. And what is used as a tool for people to accumulate is electricity. Electricity is here. Electricity is here. Sentences that sound like heaven are quickly sent from house to house. People get up in a hurry to do the activity next door. The cool breeze blows back. The phone screen is brighter again. Cell phones have been kept alive for many hours. This is the northern end of the Gaza Strip, the place where electricity is during the golden hour. And everyone knows that they have to hurry before the electricity goes out again. It's been many years since the residents here have electricity that only lasts 3-4 hours a day. We have to hurry. We have to wash. The electricity goes out. We have to wait. We have to hurry. Sometimes we throw it away. Sometimes we leave it. We have to wash. We have to wash our hands. Not only does it affect the way of life of the residents, the electricity that is used is limited and causes the business in the area to stagnate. Mamut, the owner of a laundry shop in the Gaza Strip, has no time to work. It depends on the electricity when it comes. Once, while taking a break with the family, as soon as the neighbors came to say that the electricity had come, Mamut hurried back to the shop to finish the laundry. Sometimes the electricity comes back in the middle of the night and Mamut has to sleep, because it's better than losing customers. Sometimes the electricity comes in the middle of the night. Last time it came at 3 a.m. The schedule was 3 hours, 24 hours a day. It came from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. 3 hours, 24 hours a day. What do you want to do? I want to work more to satisfy the customers. The life that depends on the electricity of the people here is an abnormality that has become normal. Gaza Strip is a small area close to the city of Samut Songkhram, located next to the Mediterranean Sea in Israel. Although it is small, it is one of the most densely populated areas with more than 1.8 million people living in Palestine, mostly women and children. However, Gaza Strip is a self-governing area under the control of Egypt. But the victory of Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967 changed the status of this land. In 1917, after the Ottoman Empire lost to Britain in World War I, Palestine and the land in the Middle East fell to Britain. A group of Jews in the Zionist organization who were determined to re-establish the original foundation according to the covenant, used money and propaganda to let Britain give the land of Palestine to Ton. At that time, Palestine already had an Arab resident. When hundreds of thousands of Jews moved to establish the foundation of the house of the Palestinians, what followed was a conflict between the two nations. In 1947, Britain submitted a problem to the International Human Rights Organization. As a result, half of the land was divided among the dissatisfaction of the Arabs. The next year, the country of the Jews was established on the land of Palestine in the water of Israel. The Arabs fought the war for the land, but lost and lost some of the land that the International Human Rights Organization had designated as the territory of the Palestinians to the Jews. 20 years later, the Palestinians, together with the Arab nations, invaded the Jews' stronghold in the Six-Day War. They lost again, and the Gaza, West Bank, and Jerusalem were taken by Israel and besieged until today. At Gaza, the power went out again, and the border was besieged by a dark night. The Mammoth stopped working. There were only a few shops left that could still operate because of the power cuts. It was time for many people to find money to feed their mouths and stomachs. For Abdullah Sakud, a 70-year-old man, his father's respiratory disease caused him to have to use a respirator every two hours. Gaza needs regular electricity, so I had to look for an alternative. I found an alternative with a very high cost compared to the economic situation. The Hajj needs to continue to have electricity in the house for 24 hours. In the Gaza Strip, most people were born here. Some were forced to emigrate after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The Israeli occupation caused the people here to lose their jobs. They were poor and had to wait for help from the international organizations. When life goes on, electricity is an expensive tool. What you see is the life that is connected to electricity. It's so bright and clear that you can see it from outside the world. This satellite image shows the arrival and use of electricity that reaches almost everyone in almost every area today. The average consumption of electricity in the Gaza Strip is limited. According to a report by the World Bank, many people in many countries still can't get electricity because they live far away and are poor, especially in the south of the Sahara in Africa, where less than half of the population has electricity. But there is no place like the Gaza Strip. People here can't get electricity because they have to pay a high price for electricity that costs up to 50,000 Baht per month to maintain the family's business that has been going on for more than 40 years. The story goes that the electricity went out before it was fully charged. The electricity went out after three or four hours. Right now, I have electricity for one kilometer. But the electricity that went out this time was caused by the people's anger. In the outskirts of the Gaza Strip, in the north of the Gaza Strip, a group of protesters walked along a dark road. The chaos caused the Hamas government to announce that they will bring electricity back to the people by importing fuel from Egypt to Gaza. For more than 10 years, the Hamas and the Palestinians have been stuck in the so-called Gaza Strip, with Israel as a barrier. In the 1960s, a number of Palestinians formed the Palestine Liberation Organization or PLO to oppose the establishment of Israel. After the defeat in the Six-Day War, the PLO continued to fight by bombing, shooting, and killing. Israel replied by sending planes to the Palestinian territory and sent secret agents to deal with the PLO. The war between the Jews and the Palestinians grew. In 1972, the United Nations entered into a ceasefire with the Oslo Accords in 1993 which resulted in the Palestinians being able to set up their own borders in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. However, this peace was not satisfactory for the Jews and the Palestinians. At that time, the Hamas and the Palestinians gradually established themselves. In 2005, the ongoing peace resulted in Israel withdrawing its military forces from the Gaza Strip. Analysts say the PLO was too lenient with Israel in many areas resulting in the Hamas having an impact, especially in the Gaza Strip. The defeat of the Hamas was unsatisfactory for the US and Israel because the Hamas was a group of extremists. In 2007, the conflict between the Hamas and the Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip resulted in the death of many Palestinians. The Hamas held Gaza as a stronghold while Israel used a surrounding to restrict water, food, medicine and energy to force the Gaza Strip to rise up against the Hamas. We are accepting these first doses of fuel that is going to the station so that these caravans of fuel can supply our people in the Gaza Strip. Caravans of oil from Egypt are moving through the Gaza Strip to the Gaza Strip. The oil is coming from the Hamas to the Gaza Strip after a power plant that was shut down due to fuel shortages. This is a common problem when later on the Israeli forces attacked the Gaza Strip's power plant and water supply. The power was cut due to the power plant that was shut down yesterday. The problem is that it will be multiplied and the Gaza Strip will be in danger. The electricity is back. The Gaza Strip's life will be saved. Soon, the fuel will run out and the caravans will come back like a movie. In fact, the Gaza Strip has a main line that is connected to Israel. The electricity of 120 megawatts or 1 in 4 is sold for $12.6 million. This is the story of Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. But sometimes, it becomes a political issue. Once a month, Abbas stops paying and cuts the electricity in Gaza to force the Hamas to give up. Today, the Gaza Strip is no different from the power plant that was shut down Leaving Gaza alone is a war crime when innocent people have to suffer. Closed-off life is a life without food, water, energy, and freedom. But the most painful thing is not knowing when the collective punishment will end. Just like other 8-year-olds, Rora Hussein likes to watch cartoons. When the light from the TV turns off along with the light, she is not only sad, but also afraid of the darkness. Today, Rora doesn't have to feel that way after her father brought a solar cell panel to the back of the house. At the end of the day, we had 8 hours of electricity and it was on all night. We were afraid because it was all dark. Then, my father brought a solar panel and we had electricity. The price of the solar panel makes it even more expensive. The energy from the sun is a new way to bring the light to a faraway place, even in the Gaza Strip. Due to Israel's lockdown, even though many houses have electric generators, the cost of a solar panel is not cheap. With a price of less than US$3,000, a solar cell is a more cost-effective investment. Moreover, it gives many lives a chance to survive and grow. This is the nursery of the Al-Nasir Hospital. These little babies are born prematurely but their lives are still in danger. In the middle of a fierce battle between Israel and Palestine, the electricity here is out. Many times, the electricity is out for 18 hours. The solar cell project was established with the financial support of a charity in England. The electricity was cut more than 12 hours and we spent 24 hours supplying the nursery with electricity and running all the devices. Honestly, this is a huge loss for us. 450 megawatts is the amount of electricity needed in Gaza. But today, the electricity from Israel and its power plants produces only 250 megawatts. With a country in the middle of a war, the solar cell is a hope. According to the Palestine Energy and Electricity Act, Gaza will install more solar cells in 2020 to produce 120 megawatts of electricity. The sun will be the first source of electricity for Gaza. We hope that in 2020, the production of solar energy will reach only 20%. Therefore, it's not easy to get to the solar cell. With Israel's lockdown, it's difficult to transport the equipment to Gaza. The orange light illuminates Gaza's many power plants from the air strikes. This is the second time Israel has attacked Hamas' stronghold in Gaza. On the Gaza side, Israel's drone was able to intercept an attack. The fight between Israel and Palestine is back. After Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, announced that he is preparing to build a new West Bank if he wins the election. The plan was rejected by the Arab world because Netanyahu's territory is home to more than 65,000 Palestinians. In the midst of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, the people of Gaza have to fight to survive. The lives and destinies of the people of Gaza are partly dependent on Israel. No matter who takes the leadership, in Gaza, things may not change much. Life will continue. It starts when the lights are on and ends when the lights are off. But the worst part is that the brightest light on this land turns into a flash of light or an explosion from the attack from the other side of the wall.