A căzut o stea a învăţămîntului palestinian

…răpusă în floarea vieţii de maşina de război sionistă. Awad al-Qiq, profesor de fizică la o şcoală din Gaza finanţată de ONU, s-a stins tragic din vaţă la numai 33 de ani, în urma unui atac cu rachete israelian.

… Qiq, a physics graduate with eight years’ experience of teaching at UNRWA [Agenţia ONU pentru refugiaţii palestinieni, n.t] schools, was also described by colleagues as a rising star in education. Relatives said he was promoted to run the school last year, with the title of deputy headmaster.

Bunul profesor lasă în urmă o naţiune îndurerată şi o familie devastată.

Qiq’s sister said his wife and five children were worried by the lack of news on any pension payment: „Awad did a lot for UNRWA,” she said. „The family hoped UNRWA would support them.”

Agenţia ONU pentru refugiaţii palestinieni e puţin stingherită deocamdată, însă îi va trece repede. Cu ocazia funeraliilor a devenit public faptul că Awad al-Qiq a dus o viaţă dublă. Ziua era profesor şi director de şcoală, iar noaptea construia rachete pentru organizaţia teroristă Jihadul Islamic. Orice s-ar zice, a fost cu adevărat devotat ştiinţei şi tehnicii, ceea ce nu poate fi decît un exemplu pozitiv pentru tinerele generaţii. Palestina are nevoie de cît mai mulţi ingineri pricepuţi pentru a-şi realiza obiectivele.

The Israeli air strike that killed the 33-year-old last week also laid bare his apparent double life and embarrassed a U.N. agency which has long had to rebuff Israeli accusations that it has aided and abetted guerrillas fighting the Jewish state.

… militant leaders allied to the enclave’s ruling Hamas group hailed him as a martyr who led Islamic Jihad’s „engineering unit” — its bomb makers. They fired a salvo of improvised rockets into Israel in response to his death.

Qiq’s body was wrapped in an Islamic Jihad flag at his funeral, pictorial posters in his honour still bedeck his family home this week, and a handwritten notice posted on the metal gate at the entrance to the school declared that Qiq, „the chief leader of the engineering unit”, would now find „paradise”.

Bineînţeles că familia, cunoscuţii si reprezentanţii ONU sînt şocaţi de aceste revelaţii. Familia în special insistă asupra imposibilităţii ca bunul Awad să fi fost asociat în vreun fel cu respectiva organizaţie patriotică palestiniană.

In interviews with Reuters, students and colleagues, as well as U.N. officials, denied any knowledge of Qiq’s work with explosives. And his family denied he had any militant links at all, despite a profusion of Islamic Jihad posters at his home.

Surrounded by Islamic Jihad mourning posters at the family home, his sister Naima insisted: „He’s only a teacher and head of the school. School was his life. He had no time to work with Islamic Jihad.” Other family members nodded in agreement.

Familie mare, remuneraţie mică, după buget şi colac peste pupăză ONU se face că plouă cînd vine vorba despre pensia cuvenită familiei nevoiaşe.

No one from the United Nations attended the funeral or has paid their respects to the family, relatives said, adding that Qiq’s widow and five children had heard nothing about a pension.

Absolut scandalos pentru o agenţie care se pretinde umanitară.

Gaza headmaster was Islamic Jihad „rocket-maker”