Data: Tingkat Buta Huruf di Palestina Terendah di Dunia

Tepi Barat – Infopalestina: Data statistik yang disusun oleh Biro Pusat Statistik Palestina atau PCBS (Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics) menunjukkan tingkat angka buta huruf di wilayah Palestina terendah di dunia, di mana hanya ada 126 ribu buta huruf orang dewasa di wilayah Palestina.

Demikian diumumkan Ola Awad, Penjabat Pelaksana Ketua PCBS, pada peringatan Hari Pemberantasan Buta Huruf Internasional yang jatuh pada hari Selasa (8/9). Dia menyatakan bahwa hal itu sesuai dengan definisi United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), yang mendefinisikan bahwa orang yang buta huruf adalah orang yang tidak dapat membaca dan menulis kalimat sederhana tentang kehidupan sehari-hari.

Dalam kesempatan tersebut Awad memaparkan indikator paling menonjol yang terkait dengan buta huruf di wilayah Palestina. Tingkat buta huruf antara individu-individu yang berusia 15 tahun ke atas 5,9% (2,9% pria dan 9,1% perempuan) pada tahun 2008. Sementara di negara-negara Arab 28,9% pada tahun-tahun 2005 – 2007 menurut data dari UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Jumlah buta aksara di dunia Arab (61) juta pada tahun yang sama. Di antaranya 39 juta perempuan, dengan proporsi buta huruf di kalangan perempuan hingga 38,5% dibandingkan 19,7% di kalangan laki-laki. Dan tingkat buta huruf seluruh dunia di antara individu-individu yang berusia 15 tahun ke atas 16,1%. Dengan jumlah buta aksara di dunia, kira-kira (774) juta orang, di antaranya 496 juta adalah perempuan. Di mana tingkat buta aksara antara laki-laki dewasa di dunia 11,6%, sementara di kalangan perempuan dewasa 20,6% untuk tahun yang sama.

Sebuah Pergeseran Kualitatif

Awad mengatakan telah terjadi pergeseran yang jelas pada tingkat buta aksara dalam dua belas tahun terakhir. Data-data menunjukkan terjadinya penurunan yang signifikan sejak tahun 1997 pada angka buta huruf; di mana angka buta aksara di antara individu yang berusia 15 tahun ke arah 5,9% pada tahun 2008, sementara pada tahun 1997 sebesar 13,9%. Ini berarti bahwa dari setiap 100 orang berusia 15 tahun ke atas terdapat 6 orang yang buta huruf.

Kecenderungan penurunan ini berlaku untuk kedua jenis kelamin; di mana di kalangan laki-laki turun dari 7,8% pada tahun 1997 menjadi 2,9% pada tahun 2008. Sementara di kalangan perempuan turun dari 20,3% menjadi 9,1% untuk periode yang sama. Penurunan tertinggi terjadi di kalangan laki-laki; di mana tingkat penurunan mencapai 62,8%, sementara di kalangan perempuan 55,2%.

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IOF warplanes blast a number of targets in Gaza

By InfoPalestina.com
RAFAH, (PIC)– Israeli warplanes blasted a number of targets along the Gaza Strip borders with Egypt and in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza late on Friday night.

Security sources told PIC reporter that the Israeli warplanes launched four raids on the border area in the vicinity of Rafah crossings along with a number of suburbs in Rafah city.

Six Palestinians were wounded in two Israeli aerial raids on Jabalia at midnight Friday after a warehouse containing wood was blasted in downtown Jabalia. The warehouse was completely burnt while nearby houses were damaged, security sources said.

Hamas: Israeli elections produced three heads of “terrorism”

GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement said on Tuesday that primary results of the Israeli elections have showed that three Israeli heads of “terrorism” were gaining ground in the Israeli arena.

Spokesman of Hamas Movement in Gaza Strip Fawzi Barhoum stressed that Hamas will remain steadfast and firm on the national constants and aspirations of the Palestinian people regardless of who would rule in the Hebrew state.

Three Israeli fanatic parties, Kadima of Tzipi Livni, the Likud of Binyamin Netanyahu, Yisrael Beiteinu of the ultra-rightist figure Avigdor Lieberman, reaped most of the seats in the Israeli Knesset (parliament).

”Pasukan Berseragam Putih” Muncul di Gaza

Para mujahidin menceritakan munculnya”pasukan lain” berseragam putih saat perang Al-Furqan berlangsung. Siapa mereka?

Hidayatullah.com—Serangan 22 hari oleh tentara Israel ke Jalur Gaza masih menyisahkan cerita-cerita menakjubkan. Sebagian orang menilai, itulah ayaturrahman (tanda-tanda kebesaran Allah) di bumi Jihad, Jalur Gaza.

Situs berbahasa Arab, www.islammessage.com, menulis, bahwa seorang mujahidin Al-Qassam menyebutkan bahwa ada sebuah rumah milik keluarga Dardunah, yang berada di antara Jabal Al Kasyif dan Jabal Ar Rais tepatnya di jalan Al Qaram.

Pasukan Israel mendatangi rumah ini, seluruh anggota keluarga diperintahkan untuk duduk di sebuah ruangan, salah satu anak laki-laki diinterogasi, mengenai ciri-ciri para pejuang Al-Qassam.

Laki-laki itu menjawab bahwa para pejuang Al-Qassam mengenakan baju hitam-hitam.Akan tetapi tentara itu malah marah dan memukulnya hingga pingsan, dan itu terjadi berturut-turut selama tiga hari. Setiap ditanya, laki-laki itu menjawab bahwa para pejuang Al-Qassam memakai seragam hitam.

In Gaza, a “ranch” turned to rubble

Tents for those whose homes were destroyed in Israel’s 22-day-long military siege of Gaza, 31 January 2009. (Matthew Cassel)

Rami Almeghari writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Lebanon, 3 February 2009

Piles of bricks, metal sheets and pieces of wood, are all that remains of tens of Palestinian homes in the Ezbet Abed Rabu (Abed Rabu Ranch) neighborhood, east of Jabaliya town in the northern Gaza Strip.

“There is nothing left for us to live for — the house was lost and the furniture destroyed,” lamented Suad Muhammad Abed Rabu, a 53-year-old mother sitting in front of a fire stove in a still intact room of her badly damaged home. “We prefer to die in our demolished house rather than live life as outcasts,” she said. “Since we were born we have been suffering. Since 1948 we have moved from one refuge to another and from one war to another. All, including Arabs and Europeans, are conspiring against us, they don’t want us to live.”

Qardhawi: Yang Terjadi di Gaza adalah Kemenangan Menurut al Qur’an

[ 03/02/2009 - 11:28 ] – infopalestina.com

Doha – Infopalestina: Syaikh Yusuf Qardhawi, ketua Persatuan Ulama Dunia, mengatakan bahwa apa yang terjadi di Jalur Gaza adalah kemenangan perlawanan Palestina atas alat pembunuh Zionis Israel dalam perang yang berlangsung selama lebih dari 3 pekan dan mengakibatkan lebih 7 ribu warga Palestina gugur dan terluka.

Qardhawi mengucapkan selamat kepada Palestina baik pemerintah maupun rakyatnya atas kemenangan ini. Dia memuji pertempuran yang ditorehkan putra-putra Gaza pada hari-hari pertempuran, persatuan dan kesetiakawanan antara rakyat Gaza. Qardhawi juga memuji pemerintah Palestina di Jalur Gaza yang berdiri di shaf pertama untuk melawan agresi Zionis Israel. Dia mengatakan, “Bila pemerintah-pemerintah Arab terpisah dengan rakyatnya, maka pemerintah Gaza menyatu dengan rakyat dan aparatnya melebur bersama anak bangsa Palestina lainnya hingga seorang menteri dalam negerinya, Said Sheyam, gugur besama keluarganya.

[Month in pictures] : Coping in Gaza, January 2009

Palestinian supporters of Hamas take part in a rally celebrating “victory” over Israel, 20 January. (Mohamed Al-Zanon/MaanImages)

Photostory, The Electronic Intifada, 1 February 2009

Twenty-two days of Israeli bombardment by land, sea and air left more than 1,300 Palestinians dead and 5,000 injured; approximately 4,000 homes destroyed and 17,000 others damaged; and entire neighborhoods wiped out. The attacks, which began on 27 December 2008, mostly ended on 18 January 2009 after Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire.

The below photographs are a selection of images from the month of January 2009. “The month in pictures” is an ongoing feature by The Electronic Intifada. If you have images documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, or of solidarity with Palestine, please email images and captions to photos A T electronicintifada D O T net.

Palestinians inspect a house destroyed by Israel in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, 18 January. (Mohamed Al-Zanon/MaanImages)

Palestinians work on constructing new and repairing old smuggling tunnels along the border with Egpyt, damaged during the Israeli military operation, 22 January. (Hatem Omar/MaanImages)

Palestinian students in Rafah attend a class set up outside their school, which was destroyed by Israeli air strikes, 25 January. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)

Erdogan: My anger over Gaza directed at Israeli government, not Jews

By News Agencies and Haaretz Service

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan received a hero’s welcome upon his return to Istanbul on Friday, a day after storming off the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, red-faced from verbally sparring with President Shimon Peres over the recent fighting in Gaza.

Upon his return to Istanbul, Erdogan told a news conference that his anger over the operation in Gaza and Peres’ remarks was directed not at Jews, but at the Israeli administration.

“Our people would have expected the same reaction from any Turkish prime minister,” he told a news conference at Ataturk airport on Friday morning after speaking to a cheering crowd.

“This was a matter of the esteem and prestige of my country. Hence, my reaction had to be clear. I could not have allowed anyone to poison the prestige and in particular the honor of my country,” he said.
“Our reproaches are not against the Israeli people or Jews. Our reproach is totally against the Israeli administration,” Erdogan said.

Gaza : “Worse than an earthquake”

Kathy Kelly writing from Rafah, occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, 22 January 2009

Traffic on Sea Street, a major thoroughfare alongside Gaza’s coastline, includes horses, donkeys pulling carts, cyclists, pedestrians, trucks and cars, mostly older models. Overhead, in stark contrast to the street below, Israel’s ultra-modern unmanned surveillance planes crisscross the skies. F-16s and helicopters can also be heard. Remnants of their deliveries, the casings of missiles, bombs and shells used during the past three weeks of Israeli attacks, are scattered on the ground.

Workers have cleared most of the roads. Now, they are removing massive piles of wreckage and debris, much as people do following an earthquake.

“Yet, all the world helps after an earthquake,” said a doctor at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. “We feel very frustrated,” he continued. “The West, Europe and the US watched this killing go on for 22 days, as though they were watching a movie, watching the killing of women and children without doing anything to stop it. I was expecting to die at any moment. I held my babies and expected to die. There was no safe place in Gaza.”

[Live from gaza] Suffering continues despite the cease fire

A child full of light will never see again
Sameh A. Habeeb writing from the occupied Gaza Strip

Eight-year-old Louay Sobeh, blinded by Israeli bombs. (Sameh A. Habeeb)

As a Gazan journalist who is devastated by the holocaust the Israel army is perpetrating against us, I find myself at loss. The list of horrendous crimes committed by the Israeli army against Palestinians is endless and the crimes are countless.

Should I write about the 45 evacuees who were massacred in their refuge at the United Nations-administered al-Fakhoura school? Should I write about the most horrifying crime when Red Cross personnel found four starving children who had spent four days with the dead bodies of their mothers and other relatives in the ruins of a house in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood?

Arabs hope for Obama change, Israelis expect more of same

21 January 2009 – Yahoo News
Arabs were hopeful on Wednesday that President Barack Obama will make changes to US policy on the Middle East, in stark contrast to Israel in the wake of the Jewish state’s deadly assault on Gaza.

“This region is looking forward to your handling of the Palestinian cause from the first day of your tenure,” Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in a cable to congratulate Obama on his inauguration.

“It is an urgent priority and the key to all the other difficult crises of the Middle East,” said Mubarak, whose country is hoping to negotiate a lasting ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.

Hamas tells Obama to learn from Bush’s mistakes

Two members of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam brigades, Hamas’s military wing, give a press conference in Gaza City on January 19, 2009. Hamas’s armed wing said today that it lost only 48 fighters during Israel’s 22-day operation in Gaza. Israel has said that it killed more than 500 Hamas members during Operation Cast Lead that it launched on Gaza on December 27 and which it ended on Sunday with a unilateral ceasefire.[Images by AFP/Getty Images - Daylife.Com]

21 January 2009 – Yahoo News

Hamas on Wednesday called on President Barack Obama to learn lessons from the mistakes of his predecessor George W. Bush and said it would judge the new US leader by his acts.

“We will judge him by his policies and actions on the ground and how he will learn lessons from the mistakes of the previous administrations,

Palestina Bantu kemerdekaan Indonesia

Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Kalau ada ribut-ribut di negara- negara Arab, misalnya di Mesir, Palestina, atau Suriah, kita sering bertanya apa signifikansi dukungan terhadap negara tersebut. Hari ini ketika Palestina diserang, mengapa kita (bangsa Indonesia) ikut sibuk?

Sebagai orang Indonesia, sejarah menjelaskan bahwa kita berhutang dukungan untuk Palestina dan negara arab lain.

Dari berbagai sumber yang diperoleh, Sukarno-Hatta boleh saja memproklamasikan kemerdekaan RI de facto pada 17 Agustus 1945, tetapi perlu diingat bahwa untuk berdiri (de jure) sebagai negara yang berdaulat, Indonesia membutuhkan pengakuan dari bangsa-bangsa lain. Pada poin ini kita tertolong dengan adanya pengakuan dari tokoh tokoh Timur Tengah, sehingga Negara Indonesia bisa berdaulat.