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29 Jul 2014

Warisan : Durian




Hanya ada di Gua Musang

Oleh KHAIRI MOHAMAD

PERTAMA kali melawat ke sebuah dusun durian kunyit di Gua Musang, Kelantan, timbul tanda tanya apa istimewanya dusun tersebut berbanding dusun-dusun durian lain di seluruh negara.

Bersama jurugambar, HAFIZ JOHARI, kami menyusuri jalan raya sejauh lebih 200 kilometer dari Kota Bharu menerusi Kuala Krai ke pekan Gua Musang.

Sehari sebelumnya, penulis telah membuat temu janji dengan pemilik dusun tersebut, Tina Chong, 40.

Pada hari yang dijanjikan kami diundang ke kediamannya sebelum dibawa ke dusunnya yang terletak di Kampung Pulai, lebih kurang 15 kilometer dari pekan Gua Musang. Ia mengambil masa hampir 45 minit.

Untuk ke dusunnya, kami terpaksa meredah kawasan yang dilitupi hutan hujan Khatulistiwa yang belum terusik kecuali beberapa projek kuari yang kelihatan rakus menarah bukit.

Perjalanan ke dusun tersebut sejauh lima kilometer dari jalan utama hanya boleh menggunakan kenderaan pacuan empat roda. Ini kerana laluannya begitu sukar dan mencabar apabila terpaksa melalui lereng-lereng bukit, jalan berbatu dan berlumpur.

Kami mengagumi kebolehan Tina kerana selain mengusahakan dusun durian, beliau begitu cekap mengendalikan kenderaan pacuan empat roda.

Detik paling mencabar ialah apabila kami terpaksa merentasi sebatang sungai yang hanya menggunakan dua batang kayu selebar tayar kenderaan tersebut yang dijadikan titi.


DURIAN kunyit memerlukan 100 hari untuk masak dan gugur selepas ia mula berputik.

Setelah mengharungi perjalanan yang cukup mencabar, kami bagaikan tergamam dan teruja dengan keindahan dusun tersebut.

Selain keindahan buah-buah durian yang berjuntaian di dahan pokok, dusun tersebut begitu bersih dan dijaga rapi tanpa rumput dan lalang.

Tina yang sangat mesra mula bercerita tentang dusunnya yang berkeluasan 10 hektar itu. Kebanyakannya ditanam dengan durian kunyit.

Selain itu, dusun tersebut juga mempunyai pokok buah-buahan lain antaranya durian D24, durian kampung, rambutan, duku dan dokong.

"Saya menggemari buah durian sejak kecil dan pernah memasang impian untuk memiliki kebun durian sendiri suatu masa dulu.

"Pada mulanya kebun ini dimiliki oleh kakak saya tetapi 10 tahun lalu beliau menyatakan hasrat untuk menjual dusun tersebut dan saya tidak melepaskan peluang untuk memilikinya," kata Tina.

Dusunnya itu memiliki lebih 300 pokok durian kunyit. Buahnya boleh dijual pada harga yang sangat tinggi iaitu mencecah RM28 sekilogram.

Bersama adiknya Jenny Chong, 36, dan rakan kongsi mereka, Chong Wan Yoong, 46, hampir 90 peratus daripada hasil kebun itu terutama durian kunyit dieksport ke luar negara termasuklah Singapura.

Penjagaan yang rumit Jenny memberitahu, Wan Yoong, bertanggungjawab sepenuhnya dalam aktiviti penjagaan dusun tersebut. Penjagaan durian kunyit sangat rumit kerana ia terlalu sensitif terhadap cuaca selain proses pembajaan yang berterusan diperlukan.

Jelasnya, hujan lebat dan angin kuat boleh merencatkan proses tumbesaran pokok selain bunga yang terlalu lemah dan mudah gugur jika ditiup angin kencang.

"Sebab itu, durian ini bukan tiap-tiap tahun ada, memang susah untuk menjadi. Bila ia berbunga, masa itu kita kena jaga betul-betul kalau tidak bunganya akan gugur.

"Kadang-kadang kita tengok bunganya lebat tetapi jika hujan lebat atau angin kencang semua akan gugur. Proses pembajaan juga diperlukan untuk mengelak daripada ancaman penyakit," ujarnya musim durian kunyit bermula dari bulan Jun hingga Ogos.

Jelas Tina, durian kunyit memerlukan 100 hari dari tempoh ia mula berputik untuk masak dan gugur. Buah yang baik boleh mencapai berat sehingga tiga kilogram sebiji.

Katanya, bermula daripada ia berputik, proses penjagaan rapi amat diperlukan kerana jika tidak buah akan gugur sebelum tempoh matangnya.

Seperti kebun-kebun lain, dusun juga tidak terlepas daripada ancaman binatang buas, sementelah ia berada jauh ke dalam hutan.

Jelas Tina, beliau terpaksa menggunakan pelbagai cara untuk menghalang binatang buas daripada menceroboh dusunnya dan memakan buah-buah yang gugur.

"Memang banyak, selalunya gajah, babi hutan dan harimau yang masuk. Kami biasa gunakan mercun untuk menghalau dan sekarang saya sedang membina pagar-pagar yang lebih kukuh untuk menghalang haiwan liar.

"Ketika musim durian kami adakalanya terpaksa tidur di dalam pondok di dusun untuk menjaga tanaman dan buah-buahan," kata bekas peragawati sambilan dan pendandan rambut profesional ini.

Bercerita mengenai keenakan durian kunyit Tina memberitahu, mungkin tidak ramai yang mengetahuinya kecuali jika disebut Musang King.

Durian tersebut dijual di pasar raya-pasar raya dipek dan dijual mengikut ulas.


SIAPA sangka, Tina sebelum ini merupakan seorang pendandan rambut profesional dan bekas peragawati sambilan.

Kepada penggemarnya, harga bukan satu masalah tetapi adakalanya mungkin membuatkan kita terfikir, betulkah dua ulas durian Musang King harganya sampai RM15?

"Durian ini dikenali sebagai durian kunyit kerana warna isinya yang kekuningan seakan kunyit selain rasanya yang berbeza daripada durian biasa serta tekstur isinya.

"Saya difahamkan, Musang King adalah spesies yang sama dengan durian kunyit.

"Kononnya durian jenis ini hanya ada di Gua Musang manakala King pula merujuk pada 'gelaran' raja buah-buahan itu," ujar wanita yang masih bujang ini.

Tina memberitahu, dusunnya mampu mengeluarkan sehingga dua tan durian kunyit untuk tempoh tiga bulan setiap musim dan mampu memperoleh pendapatan sehingga RM300,000," ujar Tina.

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Durian Musang King: Sejauh mana anda sanggup berbelanja?

KUALA LUMPUR: Baunya terlalu kuat, sehingga ada yang tidak menggemarinya membandingkan dengan bau bangkai tikus.

Itu reaksi segera yang pasti diluahkan mana-mana pelancong asing setiap kali menghidu bau raja segala buah, iaitu durian.

Malah, disebabkan durian, kecoh Australia tahun lalu kerana disangka bau gas bocor.

Kejadian gempar di Australia itu merupakan pengenalan terbaik buat durian di negara kangaroo itu.

Ini kerana, Ogos tahun lalu, MASkargo buat pertama kalinya menghantar dua tan durian segar sejuk ke Sydney, Australia menggunakan cara pembungkusan baru oleh Institut Penyelidikan dan Kemajuan Pertanian Malaysia (MARDI).

Durian itu dipasarkan di empat pasar raya di Sydney.

Di sebalik baunya yang kuat, durian yang dilabelkan sebagai buah paling luat baunya di dunia mula dijual di United Kingdom (UK) buat pertama kalinya.

Durian Musang King dipilih sebagai jenis pertama durian yang di eksport ke negara "Mat Saleh" itu.

Perkara itu mendapat perhatian akhbar dalam satu rencana disiarkan 3 Februari lalu.

Akhbar itu yang memetik kenyataan jurucakap bagi Malaysia Kitchen, Stanley Harper, pemilihan Durian Musang King dibuat kerana rasanya yang enak, harum serta bersaiz besar.

Menurut Harper, pada peringkat awal, Durian Musang King hanya dijual di rangkaian Pasaraya Loon Fung.

Bagi mempromosikan Musang King di United Kingdom, katanya, juara Masterchef, Tim Anderson yang juga duta bagi Malaysia Kitchen menggunakan durian jenis itu dalam penghasilan ais krim durian dan memasak ‘risotto’ durian.

Itulah Durian Musang King atau lebih dikenali di Kelantan sebagai Durian Kunyit.

Malah, bagi seorang penanam durian, Tina Chong, nama Durian Musang King itu berasal dari Gua Musang, manakala perkataan 'King' itu sebagai rujukan raja kepada segala buah durian.


Astro AWANI turut mengadakan pungutan suara dikalangan pembaca astroawani.com bagi mengetahui sejauh mana mereka sanggup berbelanja untuk menikmati raja segala buah ini.

Daripada pungutan suara tersebut, 63 peratus sanggup membayar RM100 hingga RM150 sahaja untuk menikmati durian di UK.

Sementara 25 peratus pula sanggup membayar pada harga maksimum kira-kira RM200 hingga RM250.

astro awani



How to Identify Musang King and D24


Currently, Musang King is like black-market gold. It's the most sought after, desired and expensive of all the durian varieties, selling for more than twice the price of a more average durian.

That said, it's also the durian most likely to be faked. That's right: unscrupulous durian vendors will try to pull a fast one on the naive and sell an average durian under the name and price of the famous Musang King. Luckily, all durian varieties have slightly different shapes, colors, and spikes and you can learn to distinguish a true Musang King from a fake. Here are 5 tips to identify a true Musang King, as taught to us by the Musang Queen herself, Tina Chong. Thanks again, Tina!

The most well-known characteristic of Musang King is it's deep, turmeric yellow flesh. But Musang King is not the only durian with a dark yellow aril. Check out the picture below. Is it a Musang King or not?



If you can't tell now, you should be able to after reading the following clues:

1. Shell Color


Durian shells vary pretty widely in color from yellow-brown to camo-green to tinged with purple. Unlike other fruits, the color does not always denote ripeness, but is a characteristic of the variety.

Musang King (left) is a dusky green-tan bordering on yellow. Often the coloration will change between the tips of the thorns and the base. In comparison, D24 is typically a homogenous green.

2. Spike Density and Shape

Spikes can be either far apart or very close together, kind of square and pyramidal, or round and thin as a needle.

In Musang King, the spike is fairly large and pyramidal, set fairly far apart. Compare to the spike of a D24, which clusters

3. Visibility of Seams


All durians open via weakened seams running the length of each lobe from tip to stem. As I mention in How to Open a Durian, I am in totally in love with these seams. They are like the Achilles Heel of the world's most formidable fruit. On some durians, these seams are visible lines or bands, while on others the seams are invisible.

Musang King's seams are very visible, meeting on the bottom in a broad five pointed star. Often the spikes will even point away from the seam, creating an effect almost like the opening of the Red Sea. In contrast, the seams on a D24 are practically invisible. The spikes even point toward each other, further hiding the seam beneath a spiky bower.

4. Crown

Another way to identify durian variety is by the shape of the band connecting the stem to the fruit. This is sometimes called the crown. How fitting is that - the King of Fruit has a crown!

As you can see in the picture, the durian on the left has a smooth crown. The spikes face downwards away from it and there's even a little bit of a gap between the crown and where the spikes start. That's the Musang King.

In contrast, D24's crown has spikes growing up and over it, facing upward in jagged imitation of a traditional king's crown.

5. Stem Length



All durian varieties have different lengths of stem. Some have very long stems, like the variety called Gan Yao in Thailand. Others have stems so short you can barely fit your fingers onto it to pick it up.
Musang King has a relatively long stem, while D24 has a short stem.

In Summary: When looking over a possible Musang King durian, you're looking for a green-yellow fruit with a long stem, a very visible tan five-pointed star on the bottom, pyramidal spikes without much space between them, and of course that brilliant yellow flesh.

Now look at the first picture again:



Now what do you think? Musang King or not?

year of the durian


Durians: 8 Myths and Facts About the King of Fruits

Source: By Teresa Cheong for Health Xchange, with expert input from Dietetic & Food Services.


Durian is a nutritious fruit which, when eaten in moderation, will provide the body with many minerals, vitamins and good fats.

Contrary to popular belief, you will not have a big spike in your cholesterol level after eating a durian. In fact, this king of fruits has good monounsaturated fats that can actually lower your harmful cholesterol levels and moderate your high blood pressure.

But feasting on this highly nutritious fruit will certainly not benefit your waistline. A durian can have anywhere from 885 calories to 1,500 calories depending on its size. Durians may be a very good source of nutrients, but they are also high in calories and carbohydrates and thus must be consumed with moderation.

Facts and myths about durian

Durian facts

1. Durian can cause weight gain

With an average 1 kg sized durian having close to 1,350 calories, eating one durian can rack up as much as 68 per cent per cent of the daily 2,000 calories recommended for an average adult! One seed durian (about 40 g) has 54 calories.

2. Durian is rich in nutrients

Durian is naturally rich in potassium, dietary fibre, iron, vitamin C, and vitamin B complex. The king of fruits is thus excellent for improving muscle strength and blood pressure, bowel movements and skin health. It also supports the nervous and immune systems, and enhances red blood cell formation.

Nutritional composition of one small durian (602g)
Calories 885
Total fat 32.1g (mostly monounsaturated fats) 
Cholesterol NIL
Sodium 13mg
Total carbohydrates 163.1g
Dietary fibre 22.9g
Protein 8.8g

Percentage of daily nutritional requirements
Vitamin C 198%
Iron 14%
Vitamin A 5%
Calcium 4%


3. People with diabetes must limit their durian intake

If you have diabetes and must count your carbs, you cannot feast on durians because of the fruit’s high sugar content. Durians contain simple sugars – sucrose, fructose and glucose.

4. Durian is an instant energiser

Because of their high carbohydrate content, durians can help replenish low energy levels quickly (in healthy individuals). The fruit’s high potassium content can also help reduce fatigue and relieve mental stress and anxiety.


Durian myths

1. Durian is loaded with cholesterol

Not true. Durians have zero cholesterol. Cholesterol is found in foods containing saturated fats such as red meats, seafood and dairy products. Durians have heart-healthy monounsaturated fats which help to lower your levels of bad LDL cholesterol.

2. Mangosteen must be eaten with durian to reduce heatiness

According to conventional Chinese wisdom, a mangosteen, being a cooling fruit, will reduce the heatiness associated with durians. However, there is no scientific research to support this. The habit of eating durians and mangosteens together probably stems from the fact that the two fruits are harvested at about the same time.

3. Eating durian and drinking beer at the same time may kill you

There is no scientific evidence to show that this is a lethal combination. It is more likely to cause bloating, indigestion and discomfort as your liver has to work extra hard to metabolise both fats and sugars in the durians and the alcohol, especially if you have consumed both in excessive amounts.

4. Eating durian can boost your libido

The heatiness in the durian may cause your body temperature to rise, but this does not make the fruit an aphrodisiac.

Despite the myths associated with the durian, it remains a highly prized fruit.

Final message from our dieticians:
The durian is a highly nutritious fruit which, when eaten in moderation, will provide the body with many minerals, vitamins and good fats. Eating two to three seeds of durian at one sitting is sufficient, but because durians can become so addictive, people tend to eat more than they should.

health xchange


sekejap masa


sekejap masa
matahari semakin meninggi 
merentas peta langit
akan surut dan meninggalkan
 apakah yang kau isikan dengan hari ini
matahari tak pernah berhenti
kita harus bijaksana berbagi
merumus makna kehidupan
mengisi tabung waktu
menuang harapan
mengisi petak mimpimu

sekejap masa
segalanya akan pergi dan berakhir
usah berlama merangka tindakan
atau beralah pada kesakitan
usah terbuai oleh  sinar terang
terabai langkah tersasar tuju
masa pun tak lagi berbagi

sekejap masa
tertewas atau berdiri di puncak 
semuanya adalah dirimu
yang memutar sauh hidup
perbuatkanlah jalan itu
jalan terbaikmu
sebelum matahari 
semakin kehilangan
hangatnya





 

biar dalam kenang


Antara lagu raya yang memukau perasaan
seni lagu dan liriknya begitu menyentuh

tak terlepas imbau kenang 
mengalir dalam nada dan suara itu
biar dalam kenang
melatari syawal datang

selamat hari raya
maaf zahir batin


syawal yang mulia - taufik batisah



salam aidilfitri - jamal abdillah



selamat hari raya - sudirman




cahaya aidilfitri- bdb



kepulangan yang dinanti - aman shah




catatan pulang


Sesudah segalanya tiada, terasa begitu cepat masa pergi. Segala yang pernah ada tiba-tiba lenyap dan sirna. Segala yang dulu menjadi imbau kenangan tiba-tiba hilang dari tatap mata. Begitu pantas masa meninggalkan. Ia tak akan kembali tetapi terus pergi dan menjauh.

Sesekali pulang, banyak yang bertukar dalam lingkar waktu. Orang-orang yang pernah ditemui di masjid atau kedai kopi, sudah tidak kelihatan lagi. Bertanya ke mana, rupanya mereka telah kembali untuk selama-lamanya. Bayang-bayang wajah mencair dalam baris kenangan dan mereka yang dulu pernah ketawa dan menyapa tak tertemukan lagi. Semua itu berganti, banyak wajah baru yang tidak dikenali di surau dan pasar. Rupanya mereka orang baru di sini. Kampung halaman sendiri rupanya mula dihuni mereka yang tidak dikenali. Semakin banyak deretan kawasan perumahan didirikan semakin ramai yang tak dikenali menghuni. Tapi mereka bukan lagi orang asing di sini. Mereka menetap di sini dan menjadi penghuni kampung halaman sendiri.

" Kau yang lama tak pulang. Kampung sendiri didiami orang lain", ucap kawanku bila aku bertanya nama mereka yang tak kukenali di surau sesudah terawikh.
" Kau tengok sana. Kawasan perumahan baru. Baru beberapa bulan mula diduduki. Kau ingat itu tempat apa dulu?", tanya kawanku menduga atau menyindir kebebalan aku.
" Sawah kan? " jawabku
"Huh, sawah kan. Pendek betul ingatan kau nih. Bukankah kat situ bendang luas. Ada sungai kecil mengalir tempat kita menankap anak ikan. Di sebelah utaranya kilang padi. Ada jalan kecil simpang ke sekolah tempat kau mengayuh basilkal dulu..."

Aku hanya mendengar ceritanya. Bijak dia memerangkap aku ke dalam masa lalu. Kisah kilang padi dan bendang luas serta jalan kecil untuk ke sekolah rendah. Segalanya tiba-tiba menerpa ke dalam kawah ingatanku. Aku dan Talib sama-sama berbasikal ke sekolah. Dia tinggal agak jauh dari rumahku. Dia akan menunggu aku di simpang jalan untuk sama-sama ke sekolah atau pulang. Di simpang itu kami selalu bertemu dan berpisah saban hari.


Bendang luas lenyap berganti kawasan perumahan. Agaknya lebih lumayan bagi pemilik untuk membangunkan kawasan penempatan dari mengerjakan sawah.

" Kaya la Pak Hamid ya dapat bina taman perumahan" aku menyambung.

Kawanku memandang tepat ke mataku. Aku hairan dengan tatapan matanya.

"Itulah kau kena selalu pulang. Baru tau perkembang kampung sendiri. Yang kaya bukan Pak Hamid. Pak Hamid jual tanah sawah dia dengan harga biasa kepada pemaju. Pemaju kaut untung. Bukan Pak Hamid sorang je ramai yang termakan pujuk rayu pemaju. Pak Hamid sekarang ikut anaknya ke Johor. Pemaju dah dapat semua lot tanah buat tapak perumahan. Tak ramai dari kampung kita boleh beli......"

Dia terdiam seketika. Aku menatap wajahnya. Ada perubahan ketara pada wajah Talib.

"Kenapa Lib.?"
"Terasa jugak aku. Sorang demi sorang pergi dari sini. Orang lain yang datang mengjadi penghuni baru. Harga rumah bukannya murah. Manalah orang kampung kita mampu beli. Aku sendiri nasib baik ada tanah arwah ayah tu dulu, kalau tak aku pun cabut kawan"

"Kita jadi asing di kampung sendiri" aku cuba memberi pandangan.
"Kerana orang macam kaulah. Ada kerja ada duit duduk di bandar. Kampung jadi milik orang. Esok lusa kau akan jadi orang asing di tengah-tengah kampung sendiri. Balik la tinggal kat kampung nih" nada Talib seperti kesal.

"Kerja macam aku mana ada kat sini"
"Iyalah .... tak macam aku dari kecik sampai sekarang inilah tanah yang akukenal. Salah aku jugak. Sekolah tak pandai. Bebal benar aku ni masa dulu..."
"Sudahlah Talib. Tuhan telah menetapkan nasib kita"


Talib diam seketika.

"Aku berbakti untuk kampung kita agar orang macam kau masih ada kampung"

Aku hanya diam. Malam semakin larut dan angin sejuk berhembus perlahan. Kalau tak ada Talib aku dah tak ada kawan lagi yang kukenal di kampungku sendiri......

"Jangan lupa esok nak ke hulu. Harap-harap ada la durian kunyit yang kau mahu tu. Huh, selera bukan main lagi durian biasa tak mau makan...

Talib barangkali bergurau atau menyindir aku lagi.

28 Jul 2014

salam syawal

Maaf Zahir dan Batin
ikhlas dari
Mimbar Kata


26 Jul 2014

Dua For Gaza




Allah is sufficient for me and is the best trustee of affairs x2
O Magnificent,O Honored one x2
Rescue the Muslims in Gaza
O Allah rescue the Muslims in Gaza
O Allah be a guardian and a helper for them
O Allah Nobel the One the acquaintance
Majestic in your homage
and holy are your names
O Allah your orders are never refused
nor your soldiers ever defeated
Praise to you in gratefulness
O Allah take care of the oppressing Yahud (jews)
O Allah sender of the Holy book
Mover of the clouds,defeater of the armies
Defeat them and shake them
O Allah! show us in them the wondering of your might
Killers of Messengers and Prophets
oppressors of the arm less innocent
O Allah liberate the Muslims in Gaza
O the One of Majesty and Nobility
O Allah release them from their siege
and heal their sick and relieve their anguish, protect the unity
O Allah replace their fear with security
O the One of Majesty and Nobility
O Allah strengthen Islam and the Muslims
and disgrace shirk and the mushrikeen
and smash the enemies of this faith
and protect the unity of the Islam and unite
the Muslims..O Lord of all worlds
O Allah rescue the weak among the Muslims everywhere
O Allah ,better the conditions of the Muslims in Palestine and Iraq and everywhere
O Allah spread benevolence between their hearts
and guide them to the roads of peace
and guide them from darkness to light
O the One of Majesty Generosity and Nobility.









Gaza


You Don't Need To Be MUSLIM To Stand UP For GAZA 
You Just Need To Be HUMAN !!







There are no safe places’ for children in Gaza, UNICEF officer says

Gwen Ifill talks to Pernille Ironside of UNICEF, who is in Gaza, about the toll the Israeli military offensive is having on civilians, and especially on children, the damage to infrastructure, as well as the capabilities of UNICEF to provide aid without safe humanitarian access.

GWEN IFILL: Pernille Ironside of the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF, has been on the ground in Gaza since the conflict began. I spoke with her via Skype earlier today.
Pernille Ironside, as you travel around in Gaza, tell us, what are you seeing?

PERNILLE IRONSIDE, UNICEF: Well, the conflict has been getting steadily worse by the day, and we’re now into our 15th day here.
And with each one, the civilian casualty rate has only mounted. Amongst those, children are bearing the greatest brunt of this terrible conflict at the moment. There’s over 168 children who have died already. And we’re now over 1,100 children who have been seriously injured, maimed and even terribly burned.

The physical and psychological toll that this is having on people is — it’s truly — it’s almost indescribable. I have met with, for example, the three surviving Bakr boys who, one moment, they were on the beach playing with their cousins and the next moment, they saw pieces of four of their friends and cousins strewn around them.

These are lasting emotional and physical scars that children are bearing across Gaza Strip. I also met 4-year-old Shima in the hospital the other day. And she was longing for her mother and her siblings, all of whom died as they were seeking shelter, leaving their home in search of a safer place, and only Shima and her father survived.
The fact of the matter is, there is no safe place here. Even in the public schools and compounds and UNRWA shelters, there are no guarantees for safety.

GWEN IFILL: Well, that’s actually what I wanted to ask you, which is, where do people go when they go seeking shelter?

PERNILLE IRONSIDE: Well, they’re gathering around the main emergency hospital in Gaza, al-Shifa. They’re gathering in mosques, in the orthodox church here in Gaza.
And they’re also gathering in school compounds, both U.N. schools and now, as those have basically reached their capacity with over 120,000 people in them, people are also pouring into public school compounds.

I visited two of these public schools today just to see how people were coping. The vast majority of nearly 1,400 people in each compound were children. I would say about 70 percent. In one alone, I checked. There were 152 children were under the age of 2.

This is an enormous civilian impact and upheaval in terms of all these lives who have literally had to flee, not knowing if they’re going to survive or not. In fact, one grandmother today said to me, 40 of them, all they could do was pray at that moment because they didn’t know — as their five-story building came crashing down around them, they didn’t know if they would live.

GWEN IFILL: What is the condition of the infrastructure, whether it’s water, electricity, even the roofs over people’s heads?  What is your sense of how damaged that all is?

PERNILLE IRONSIDE: I have been visiting a number of the most critical water and sanitation installations around Gaza.

I can say that 70 percent of the population is now without access to safe water. The main sewage pumping station has been hit directly. And 40 percent of Gaza’s sewage is flowing directly into the Mediterranean now. Just down the road from there the primary sewage treatment plant was also directly hit. And the sewage flowed down the street into the neighborhoods and fields, contaminating a huge amount of area.

Water wells have been directly hit. There is at least 50 percent of all of the water and sanitation infrastructure is no longer functioning at this moment. And even when some urgent repairs could be made to reestablish some of the connections, it’s been rendered impossible, because there is no safe humanitarian access for the municipal workers to be able to make these repairs.
And, already, three of them have been killed while on duty. Beyond water and hygiene, the emotional toll — and so we have the emergency psychosocial teams who are reaching out to all the families who have lost loved ones in order to provide them with some immediate coping skills. And this is really just the first step of a very long process of healing and recovery that Gaza is going to need to undergo.

GWEN IFILL: It sounds like a long process in every possible case.
Pernille Ironside, the Gaza field office of UNICEF, thank you very much.

PERNILLE IRONSIDE: Thank you.

source : pbs









Dua by Sheikh Mishary Rashed Alafasy for Gaza


Allah is sufficient for me and is the best trustee of affairs x2
O Magnificent,O Honored one x2
Rescue the Muslims in Gaza
O Allah rescue the Muslims in Gaza
O Allah be a guardian and a helper for them
O Allah Nobel the One the acquaintance
Majestic in your homage
and holy are your names
O Allah your orders are never refused
nor your soldiers ever defeated
Praise to you in gratefulness
O Allah take care of the oppressing Yahud (jews)
O Allah sender of the Holy book
Mover of the clouds,defeater of the armies
Defeat them and shake them
O Allah! show us in them the wondering of your might
Killers of Messengers and Prophets
oppressors of the arm less innocent
O Allah liberate the Muslims in Gaza
O the One of Majesty and Nobility
O Allah release them from their siege
and heal their sick and relieve their anguish, protect the unity
O Allah replace their fear with security
O the One of Majesty and Nobility
O Allah strengthen Islam and the Muslims
and disgrace shirk and the mushrikeen
and smash the enemies of this faith
and protect the unity of the Islam and unite
the Muslims..O Lord of all worlds
O Allah rescue the weak among the Muslims everywhere
O Allah ,better the conditions of the Muslims in Palestine and Iraq and everywhere
O Allah spread benevolence between their hearts
and guide them to the roads of peace
and guide them from darkness to light
O the One of Majesty Generosity and Nobility.






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