WATCH: Kids sell food and drink on the streets of Rafah to help support families
NBC News spoke with three young Palestinians who were selling food and drink on the streets of Rafah in southern Gaza in order to raise money for their displaced families.
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I have visited Palestine twice….both in the early 2000’s. Kids were on the streets of Ramallah and Raffa everyday selling whatever they could for tourists spare change. I bought street food (falafel) for about ten kids one day…garnered a LOT of interest from Israeli police who seemed to think it was a strange activity. Those kids watched out for me though and led me to some truly wonderful shops where I could easily bargain. I made it a priority to purchase food every day in a Palestinian area to bring back to my hostel or hotel. On my last day in Rafah I was saying goodbye to a few kids and a funeral procession started down the street. One of the kids, a boy of about six, grabbed my hand and pulled me into a shop. I asked if he was okay and he said “missy, you stay off street, men are angry. I keep you safe” That little boy, if he has survived is a man now and I wonder about him every day. I get that Israel is all about their “homeland” but frankly it is the Arabs homeland too and they are treated like fourth class citizens. Apartheid is alive and well in the land.
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Hi Suze. Well said, very well said. I read your comment over several times with tears in my eyes. What you did was wonderful, the children’s reaction to you was grand, the Israeli police showed what the Israeli people think of Palestinians. They view them as Southerners in the deep south viewed blacks in the days of legal slavery. As you say, Apartheid is alive and doing well there. Thank you for the comment. Do you mind if I make a post of it? I think of how it must be over there now, everyone hungry, everyone scared, everyone angry. No hope for anyone to save them. Hugs. Scottie
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please write Scotty. It needs to be said. I tried so hard not to judge the Israelis, and for the most part it was the Army and the conservatives that acted…the general populace is not like that at all and want to live in peace with their neighbors. but when one lives under what is basically Sharia this is what one ends up with.
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