Gaza – Together we will rise, together we will rebuild
JVL Introduction
Our screens are filled with horrific images from Gaza. This appalling suffering is witnessed day after day by millions of people across the world. Yet this is not the only story to be told about Gaza. Emma Dent-Coad’s article gives us another view that demonstrates the fortitude of Palestinians championing hope in the face of such calamity. As a member of the JVL’s Executive Committee I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the efforts of Architects for Gaza (AFG), founded at the University of Westminster by two academics and practitioners, Drs Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari. AFG’s work includes designs for mobile medical units, research on materials, tutorial assistance for architectural students in Gaza and the West Bank and, just started, proposals for the reconstruction of two sites. Tribute must be paid to our colleagues in Gaza, who risked their lives in joining the live link to the meeting described below. Their determination is summed by the Mayor of Gaza City’s words, “We must redevelop Gaza as a modern, clever, resilient and stronger city.”
Marion Roberts
This article was originally published by Building Design on Tue 26 Nov 2024. Read the original here.
Built environment professionals confront the enormity of the challenge ahead in Gaza
Emma Dent Coad on how Architects for Gaza is presenting bold ideas for recovery, rebuilding communities, and fostering hope in the aftermath of widespread devastation
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To keep hope is essential if Gaza is to be rebuilt. I hope that technology will allow the reuse of materials form the ruins in some form.
Gaza has been totally destroyed three times before in its 5000 year history. It rose before and will rise again.
What an amazing thought.
“Nothing happens unless first we dream.”
Congratulations to Emma Dent Coad for this. She was treated appallingly by the Labour Party for supporting Jeremy Corbyn – but who would have thought that ANY Labour Party would support a Government in Israel that is verging on fascism?
A heartbreaking article to read if you’ve seen the the total destruction of Gaza, in fact most of occupied Palestine…and the fact that the majority of Israelis still want Palestine wiped off the face of the Earth.. This article fails to take into account that Israel signed contracts with BP for the Gaza Gas field so can’t stop its deadly agenda , especially as US is building a canal & Port to facilitate the export of the Gas & Oil to the West.. Plus anyone who knows Israel’s past performance with Ceasefire or had seen the Map of Greater Israel doesn’t trust the Ceasefire with Lebanon & we know it will be broken…and blamed on Lebanon.. at 66 I’ve seen it all before.. many times.. my naivety ended years ago..
Christian Zionist USA is continuing to supply bombs to Zionist Israel and vetoing any halt to the actions of those Jewish Zionists who it is sponsoring to ethnically-cleanse Palestinians from The Holy Land / Greater Israel. The “re” colonisation of these areas by people of the Jewish religion is incredibly believed by Christian Zionists to fulfil an End-of-Times condition leading tom the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Mere religion however, confers NO RIGHTS to land – certainly not to the land of a people who have inhabited a land for hundreds of years, if not millennia. Please publicise and don’t let Christian Zionist USA get away with murder.