Turkish ship carrying aid for Gaza arrived in Israel Sunday

A Turkish cargo ship carrying  humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza

Turkey's state-run Anadolu (news) agency said the vessel, Lady Leyla, arrived at the Israeli port in Ashdod on Sunday, 35 hours after leaving the Turkish port city of Mersin.
The Panama-flagged ship was carrying 11,000 tonnes of supplies including food packages, flour, rice, sugar and toys, the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
'The ship is docking these very moments,' a spokesman for the Ashdod Port, Yigal Ben Zikry, said earlier on Sunday.
Its contents were to be unloaded, inspected and sent on to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, hit by three wars with Israel since 2008 and under an Israeli blockade.
The aid delivery marks a return to normalized relations between Turkey and Israel, which were ruptured in 2010.
Aid for the 1.9 million Palestinians in the poverty stricken enclave is part of a reconciliation deal signed between Turkey and Israel last week.
Months of negotiations between the two sides led to the agreement, which included compensation for the victims of the Israeli raid.
Tel Aviv will contribute $20 million (18 million euros) to a victim's fund for those killed in the so-called Mavi Marmara affair - the name of the ship that Israeli forces raided.
In return, Ankara will drop criminal charges against the Israeli soldiers involved in the raid.
Israel rejected Turkey's main demand - easy access to the Gaza strip - but Israel has agreed to allow aid shipments to Hamas-run Gaza, as long as they first pass through the Ashdod port for inspection.
Turkey will also be allowed to build a hospital, power plant and water desalinization plant in Gaza.
Sunday's delivery comes before the start of one of Islam's major holidays - Eid al-Fitr.

UN: More than 80% of Syrians live below poverty line

A mother and her children react after two rockets hit the Turkish town of Kilis near the Syrian border,

The number of Syrians living below the poverty line has almost tripled after five years of conflict, according to a report published this week.

Around 83.4 percent of Syrians live below the poverty line compared with 28 percent in 2010, the report by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the University of St Andrews said.

An estimated 13.5 million people in Syria needed humanitarian aid by late 2015, and more than 4 million of these were in Damascus and Aleppo provinces.

“According to one estimate, life expectancy dropped from 70 in 2010 to 55.4 in 2014,” the report said.

Around half of Syria’s 493 hospitals in 2010 have been seriously damaged in the war, it added.

“The deliberate targeting of doctors and pharmacists has forced many to flee the country, at a higher rate than that of the average population.

“As a result, the number of persons per doctor in the country rose from 661 in 2010 to 1,442 in 2015.”

Around 12.1 million Syrians lack adequate access to water, sanitation and waste disposal, the report said.

Destruction of housing and infrastructure was estimated at around $90 billion.

Damaged pumps and pipelines led to the loss of almost half of potential drinking water supply in 2015, the Syrian General Establishment for Drinking Water and Waste Disposal was cited as saying.

Drinking water per capita dropped from 72 cubic meters to 48 cubic meters between 2011 and 2015.

The numbers were just as bleak in education, with around 2.7 million children of school-age out of school both inside and outside Syria, the report said.
The economy contracted by 55 percent between 2010 and 2015, when it had been expected to grow by 32 percent.

Let the street talk

abandoned children in Iran

As an Iranian human rights activist and poet, when I saw the picture of a baby in the internet, I decided to write this poem from the eyes of the street;
This is a case of a child abandoned a few year ago. A caricaturist drew this sketch, and metaphorically showed the sorrow of the street curb.

An abandoned new born baby was placed in a trash bag on April 4th and left in front of a hospital in the city of Mahshahr, Khuzestan Province, southern Iran.
Perhaps one would say the phenomenon of abandoned children is nothing new and happens every day in the four corners of the this cruel world. Poverty or even family problems are usually the main cause of this heartrending story.
Although poverty is also one of the main factors behind unwanted children in the mullahs' ruled Iran, but there is another frightening reason behind leaving the most vulnerable and innocent human life at the mercy of the chance in the winter cold or summer heat.
 According to the mullahs' Sharia laws any woman who has a baby before marriage, is subjected to either stoning or hanging. Seeing an unattended baby on the dark hours of night on the pavement of some street or alley would bring tears to one's eyes

The street who talks!

'Sleep my little child! 

Lay your head on my arms
Even though I can't protect you from harms
Now you can have a mother
Of course I can't be a good one for you
But it is several years now I have this job, and do
For kids like you

Sleep my Baby
Of course I can't be a good mother
For this drama
But I can understand you and your lost mama
I can understand her fate so dark and grey
Because I too am trampled and distressed every day
And feel cold during the nights
And witnessing misery and brutish under the lights
Sleep my Baby
In my arms, and die
Maybe tomorrow someone asks why
Then I shall tell to the world, your story
With my doleful cry
Sleep my Baby, and die

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The Iranian government statistics show that in just one city, Isfahan, central Iran, a monthly average of 16 abandoned child  is registered. Isfahan's deputy manager of the Social Welfare Department said in an interview with Mehr News Agency that more than 96 newborns were found during first 6 mounts of 2014. 'In one city alone in 2009, 150 infants, 145 abandoned child.

A well-recognized Iranian actress dies in poverty

Another Iranian actress, passes away due to poverty

The widely known Iranian actress,named  as “Thuraya Hekmat”, passed away last Friday, April 8 at the age of 62. She had lived in poverty in her final years.
She suffered a brain stroke on Monday, April 4 and went into coma. The reason behind her death has been described as convulsion and blood clots in her brain.
This artist was only active for a decade and the last film she played in was “A Swan’s Tune”, made back in the year 2000.
In an interview with the state ISNA news agency back in August 2014 she said she could not make ends meet to pay for her mortgage, adding she will be living in a tent soon afterwards.
She explained she could not even pay for her dentistry bills!
In this interview Hekmat also said she had suggested to the regime’s Ministry of Culture and Guidance to pre-purchase her grave alongside other artists so she could sell it for some money while she was still alive.

All against Islamic fundimentalism

Iran under the rulling Mullahs,horror & terrorism

 In a short glance to Iran under the rulling Mullahs, you may see 5 million Bachelor’s degree graduates out of work plus daily executions, poverty and meddling in other countries, in order to avoid a general revolt in the country. 
 What is our duty against this terible situation?

  Iran: 5 million Bachelor’s degree graduates out of work

 Chair of the so-called parliamentary planning, budget and Calculations commission in Iran shed some light on the scope of unemployment in Iran under the mullahs’ regime.
“Currently there are 5 million Bachelor’s degree students out of work in the country,” Gholamreza Tajgardoun said.
“If the current conditions of creating jobs continue in the country, in the next three years the number of unemployed college graduates will reach 8 million,” he added.

 Execution of two juvenile offenders

Reports have emerged of a second execution of a juvenile offender in Iran in just a few days Amnesty International said today, which reveal the full horror of the country’s deeply flawed juvenile justice system.
Fatemeh Salbehi, a 23-year-old woman, was hanged on Oct 13 for a crime she allegedly committed when she was 17, only a few days after another juvenile offender, Samad Zahabi, was hanged for a crime he also allegedly committed at 17.
Fatemeh Salbehi was hanged in Shiraz’s prison in Fars Province despite Iran being bound by an absolute international legal ban on juvenile executions, and severe flaws in her trial and appeal. She had been sentenced to death in May 2010 for the murder of her 30- year- old husband, Hamed Sadeghi, whom she had been forced to marry at the age of 16.
And beside these crimes against the Iranian people Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran reported in October 13, 2015

22 executions include a young woman and 3 public executions

 

  about 22 other executions

 

 

Face to face with the international community’s commemoration of “October 10th, the World Day Against the Death Penalty”, the Iranian regime criminally hanged 22. Seventeen of the convicts were hanged on October 12.
On Tuesday, October 13, regime’s henchmen hanged a young woman that was only 17 when arrested after she had languished seven years in Adelabad Prison of Shiraz. This cruel punishment was carried out despite calls by international human rights institutions to save her life.
In the morning of October 12, three prisoners were hanged in public in Kazeroon for “armed clash” with the military and security forces and “causing insecurity in Bushehr, as well as in Mamasani and Kazeroon counties” on the mullahs’ fabricated charge of “corruption on earth and enmity with God”.
On this same day, in another criminal act, eight prisoners were collectively hanged in Darya Prison in Urmia. Concurrently, six prisoners sentenced to death were hanged in Karaj Central Prison.
On October 10 and 11, four other prisoners were hanged in prisons in Rasht and Bandar Abbas. Mohsen Tima, a prisoner from Bandar Abbas who was arrested when 20 years old, was hanged on October 11 after suffering 15 years in regime’s medieval prisons.
While the noose of infightings inside the regime, growing social discontent, and domestic and international crises tightens around regime’s neck, this regime has found no escape but to ratchet up suppression and increase the barbaric and arbitrary executions to save itself from its certain downfall.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international agencies to condemn these barbaric executions and urges that any rapprochement with the Iranian regime be made contingent on the improvement of human rights in Iran, particularly the cessation of the executions.