Ein lesenswerter Beitrag in der Times of Israel über die Arbeit von Rabbi Michael Melchior (72)
Sanitation conditions in Gaza continue to deteriorate and remain critical. After months and years in displacement camps without adequate infrastructure, families face increasing health risks linked to inadequate waste management, sewage overflows, and accumulating rubble. Clean Shelter continues to work across these interconnected challenges, focusing on practical, mid-term measures to mitigate risks in waste management, sewage containment, and rubble clearance, and is committed to delivering water for multiple uses to remote areas that lack access.
House-Warming: 25 Additional Families Return Home
Through our Shelter Program, Clean Shelter has restored safer and more dignified living conditions for 25 families by repairing damaged homes and making them habitable and weather-resistant once again. These interventions help families move out of tents and return to more stable shelter, improving safety, dignity, and protection for vulnerable households.
In addition, we carried out essential sewage repairs in a residential building in Gaza, housing 28 families. The work helped address environmental contamination and significantly improved sanitation conditions for all residents.
Sewage Control
Sewage management remains one of our most urgent priorities. As part of an ongoing project providing bathroom panels and septic tanks, we delivered essential infrastructure across multiple displacement sites: five bathroom panels installed in five camps and seven septic tanks installed in seven camps.
These interventions improve hygiene conditions, help prevent sewage overflow, and reduce health risks for displaced families living under increasingly difficult circumstances.
Water Access Expanded to a New Area
In addition to our continuous provision of safe drinking water to 60,000 people per day, Clean Shelter has successfully extended water access to a community residing at a higher elevation in Tal Elamal. This community previously had to walk long distances to obtain water. The problem is now solved for 140 families, who no longer face this daily burden.
Looking Ahead
Clean Shelter remains committed to scaling our response as needs grow. With sanitation conditions deteriorating and funding remaining unpredictable, your support is essential to keep these vital services running and to reach more families in urgent need. Thank you for standing with displaced families in Gaza.
We are now fundraising for the continuation of our operations in the second half of 2026 – we need your help and support! Please feel free to share our newsletter and social media posts and donate today to ensure safer living conditions for the most vulnerable individuals and families in Gaza!
With gratitude, The Clean Shelter Team.
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Dr. Abed Schokry ist Professor für Arbeitswissenschaft, Arbeitsschutz und Qualitätsmanagement am Institut für Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen an der Islamischen Universität Gaza, seit 1. Juli 2025 ist er Gastprofessor am Fachgebiet Industrielle Automatisierungstechnik (Leitung Prof. Dr. Jörg Krüger) und wird gefördert durch die Philipp Schwartz-Initiative.
Hier ein Gespräch auf der Seite der TU Berlin, geführt von Bettina Klotz zur Frage der akademischen Freiheit …
Petitionen: 4000 Kinder aus Gaza warten aktuell auf medizinische Behandlung
Hier geht`s zu den Unterschriftslisten der Friends of Standing Together Berlin …
15. Mai 2026 – 19.00 Uhr MEZ
Was für ein Datum … aber hier geht es nicht im Tschernobyl..
Der 26. April steht auch für Guernica. 1937, also vor 89 Jahren zerstörten insbesondere Kampfflugzeuge der deutschen Legion Condor und der italienischen Aviazione Legionaria die schutzlose Stadt.
Bundespräsident R. von Weizsäcker bat 1997 in deutschem Namen um Verzeihung für das Verbrechen.
Als Lesehinweis dazu ein aufrüttelnder, ja provizierender – und umso mehr lesenswerter Artikel von Elat Lapidot: Gaza as World War, der auch dieses Datum in seine Reflektionen einbezieht.
Hier ein Zitat aus der aktuellen Ausgabe der London Review of Books / April 2026
„Reconstruction plans imposed on Palestinians with the implicit aim of destroying Palestinian life in Gaza demonstrate the reason Lemkin reserved a place for architecture in his conception of the crime of genocide. He knew that the way a people organises its space is a manifestation of its history and social structure. ‘Genocide has two phases,’ Lemkin wrote in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. The first involves the ‘destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group’ – this was achieved in Gaza by Israel’s devastating bombing. The second involves the imposition of a design by the oppressor, like these reconstruction plans for Gaza. ‘This imposition, in turn,’ he wrote, ‘may be made upon the oppressed population which is allowed to remain, or upon the territory alone, after removal of the population and the colonisation of the area by the oppressor’s own nationals.’“
