Scenes From The Latest Gaza Mall

We knew it was coming, but now we get to see the new Andaluseyya Gaza mall in all its glory (hat tip: Elder of Ziyon).

"Don't tell Hamas I told you this, but nice bratwurst"
Things are so bad in Gaza, that they stock Schogetten. As in "I am schogetten hungry due to the lack of food here!"
"Are any of these good for throwing?""
"Looks good, but is there room for a belt underneath?"
"I hope I can get this by the modesty police"

Photos from here and here.

Update: More on this latest luxury mall in “concentration camp” Gaza.

The biggest mall in the Gaza Strip opened its doors on Tuesday with several hundreds of residents thronging the complex.

The inaugural celebrations of the Al Andalusia Mall were as big as the mall itself, which houses branded clothes, cosmetics, office supplies, toys, shoes and appliances, etc.

Despite the reasonable prices, not many were interested in buying goods due to the financial crisis facing the impoverished strip. Most residents are poor and added to that the government staff were paid only half their June salary due to financial crisis.

The residents were more excited over the size of the mall and the escalators rather than shopping.

Mahmoud Ebed, a governmental employee, said: “I was curious to see the mall but I will not buy anything from here today.”

“The prices are reasonable but I still didn’t receive the other half of my June salary,” Mahmoud added.

Many residents still prefer to go to the public market.

Wael Al Whedi, an engineer working in a non-governmental organisation, was one of the few who actually made a purchase on the opening day.

Al Whedi said: “In general, the prices are reasonable for the middle class but most of the people in Gaza still don’t have the culture of buying from a mall.”

Dr Alaa Al Deen Al Rafati, economy minister in Gaza government, said: “Projects like this are important for the economy as Gaza is not an industrial economy.”

Ihab Al Isawia, a mall investor, said: “The mall is built on a 3,000-square meter land and has 14 departments providing goods and services.”

The mall even has a swimming pool and a small cinema theatre.

Previously on Israellycool:

Scenes From The Gaza Mall

More Scenes From The Gaza Mall

196 thoughts on “Scenes From The Latest Gaza Mall”

  1. "MK Sarsur (R.T.) quoted a piece of the Koran that discusses the destruction of the Jewish empire and warned the Jews of today that Israel will collapse just as their empire fell centuries ago." (Reported by the invaluble knessetjeremy)

    MK Ben-Ari (Ichud Hleunmi) predicted this wouldn't even get press coverage.

    Is this democracy, or suicide?

    1. Jim from Iowa

      Whatever it is, you can bet C-SPAN will cover it. Not as interesting as the Prime Minister's Question Time in the British Parliament, but then, what is?

        1. Jim from Iowa

          Spectacular FAIL on the part of the BBC World News. That is, of course, Michael Wolf, an American reporter and author, currently commenting on the travails of Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. Mr. Wolf wouldn't necessarily have to know anything about baseball to know something of Rogers Clemons and his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs (e.g. steroids, human growth hormone, etc.). I strongly suspect Michael Wolf was waiting around, expecting to be interviewed about his knowledge of the Rupert Murdoch family by the BBC.

      1. As far as I know, C-SPAN is the only meida outlet that both sides agree is neutral. Disloyalty is not interesting?

        1. Jim from Iowa

          We agree on the political-neutrality of C-SPAN. Disloyalty is very often in the eye of the beholder, subject to one's political point of view. Is it disloyal for the Israeli government to support the establishment of unofficial communication channels to Hamas? (bet the mortgage that that has been going on for some time) Am I disloyal when I criticize Obama for his Afghanistan military commitment? Are you disloyal when you challenge the Israeli high court's ruling against gender segregation on public transit practiced by the Charedi community on certain bus routes in certain neighborhoods?

          1. Given that there is no practical effect from the ruling, why would I challenge it; althoguh I do find the posters on every bus in the country somewhat insulting.

            In fact, Chareidim criticitizing the Supreme Court have been threatened that the could be charged for doing this. A bit more threatening to democracy than an anti-boycott law, no? The U.S. really IS different form the rest of the world.

            If you and Shy Guy cannot see the difference between attacking the government or a law and what this guy said, there isn't anything I can add.

  2. I love these pictures. All the women are modestly covered. PUT WOMEN IN THEIR PLACE, UNDER THE DOMINATION OF MEN! Thank you, Gaza. Thank you!
    /sarcasm

  3. Disinformation has always been Israel's policy. I have news for you, the tide is turning and people are knowing the truth about Israel , its policy and its history. You're the only one believing his own lies.

    1. Blah blah blah, you take your dreams for granted, better look at the situation today, Israel is a great land, rich and prosperous, you and people like you prefer to build mosques and preach hatred, rather than build schools and fabrics. You are losers and with eliminate yourselves, better shut up and hide.

    2. “Disinformation has always been Israel’s policy.”

      Supporter of Arab settler-colonist land-thieves in Palestine masquerading as a fake, contrived “nation” says what?

    3. People are learning the truth about Israel; I hope so, Sayeed, but judging from your post and the continual barrage of disloyalty from Arab Knesset members, it is hard to credit this.

  4. Hamas is an islamic organization. How come they are still controlling the gaza strip ? Is the people stupid ? or weak ? They manipulate and terrorize the population, only Israel is strong and clever enough to resist. How long with it last ?

    1. “Hamas is an islamic organization. How come they are still controlling the gaza strip ? Is the people stupid ? or weak ?”

      As the Muslim world has never undergone the equivalent of the West’s Enlightenment, which at the very least made it safe for people in the West to be unbelievers, the great majority of Muslims are strong, unwavering believers in the religion of Islam (including its world-imperialistic political program), much as the Christians were in the Middle Ages.

      It is wrong to assume the people in Gaza are unwilling tools under a coercive Islamic organization; no, but they are willing slaves, and they support Hamas out of agreeing with their ideas. So it is with most Muslims with regard to the duty of worldwide jihad to install shariah law.

      1. "It is wrong to assume the people in Gaza are unwilling tools under a coercive Islamic organization."

        You may be correct, but a young man I spoke to who was stationed near Gaza before the Second Lebanon War felt that this was not so. It's not exactly a free country, so it's really hard to tell.

    2. Scared. Like everyone else, they prefer to go abotu their business. Besdies, when have they ever run their own affairs.

  5. I am sure there are dozens of third-world countries from which people might be ready and willing to move to the "concentration camp" called Gaza if they knew the standard of life on offer,but the funny part is that the same people would go out and demonstrate against Israel's "criminal" "land-grab" policies and "ethnic cleansing" of the Palestinians along with the "connivance" and "support" that the US provides in this "enterprise"- after Friday prayers.

    On a tangent, what is with these fifth column MK quoting their propaganda manual about the impending destruction of Israel.Is this a regular phenomenon of verbal diarrhoea or is it that this gentleman has suddenly developed a Hidden Imam Complex?

    1. Actually, it is not uncommon, even in Saudi Arabia, for women to wear Western fasions indoors. (Of course, in Israel they will wear – or more correctly, not wear -anything, at least outside the villiage.)

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