B’Tselem Caught In Malicious (And Dumb) Lie

“Human rights” organization B’Tselem has disseminated the following sob story on social media.

https://www.facebook.com/btselem/photos/a.416625281569.201864.169981156569/10154303024136570/?type=3

Yara ‘Ashur, 18, a medical student in Gaza, studies by the light of a battery-powered lamp:

“We’ve been suffering from problems with the power for years. We get power for eight hours and then get cut off for eight. I get back from school at around 3:00 P.M., tired. I rest for two hours and then get up to study.

Because of the power outages, my father made an arrangement with someone who has a power generator: we pay him 140 shekels [approx. USD 35] a month to get electricity when the power is out. The trouble is that he supplies electricity only for a portion of the time there’s a blackout, and even then, the electric current is so weak that it’s just enough for lighting.

I usually study at night, when my younger siblings are asleep and it’s quiet, but the electricity from the generator goes out at 10:00 P.M., so I have to study by the light of a flashlight. It’s hard for me to read like that. My eyes hurt, and my vision goes blurry, so I can’t get through all the studies and I fall behind. Medical school studies take hours of work, so it’s a problem.

I also need to read studies and other material online, but I have trouble accessing the internet because of the power outages. The blackouts also mean that I can’t even always listen to the university classes I taped on my laptop. Sometimes I take the laptop to university to charge the battery there.

Photocopying study materials at the library is also a problem because of the blackouts. Sometimes I have to go a library in a different part of Gaza City, where they do have electricity.”

How does life without electricity, 90 minutes from Tel-Aviv, look like? Read Gazan women testimonies:
http://www.btselem.org/…/20170220_winter_without_electricity

Let’s look at that photograph again.

So much for using a battery-powered LED lamp due to there being no electricity (hat tip: Yoel).

Update: Here’s it from a different angle, which shows beyond any doubt that it is the lamp which is connected to electricity (hat tip: Bob)

5 thoughts on “B’Tselem Caught In Malicious (And Dumb) Lie”

  1. By the lie (by the lie) Of the slippery goon (of the slippery goon) I want to spoon (I want to spoon) Feed you with pathos and gloom (Hate’s tune). . .

  2. Kathy Prendergast

    When I taught at universities in China I discovered that the dorms my students lived in had only one power outlet on each floor, which every student on the floor had to share. No power outlets in the rooms, and they had no heating either. In the winter some students used to bring their cheap little heating pads into the classroom and take turns using the power outlet to heat them up so they could warm their hands. They would come to class sleep deprived because they had spent most of the night lying awake shivering with cold. They told me they had to go to bed with their coats on. No hot running water, and the toilets and sinks were in another building. If they wanted to take a shower they had to pay to take one at a public bathhouse off campus. This is normal student life in China. So it’s rather hard to shed a tear for this young lady in Gaza. Totally OT, but what on earth does she have under her hijab? She looks like a conehead. I’ve seen that look among many young Muslim women but I just don’t get it; is it supposed to be attractive?

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