Posted on 07/30/2010 6:10:52 AM PDT by lbryce
Thousands of kites filled the sky over Gaza on Thursday as children gathered to break their own Guinness World Record in an event organised by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
More than 7,200 children flew colorful kites at a sprawling sandy beach, unofficially doubling the previous record, according to officials from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
The attempt comes one week after the same number of Gaza children bounced basketballs simultaneously for five minutes, unofficially breaking another Guinness record and drawing international attention to the impoverished Hamas-run enclave.
"Surely two world records in a week would be another world record," UNRWA's Gaza director John Ging said.
"Children here must have a sense of normality, despite the abnormality they face in their daily lives. Today?s achievement has lifted the spirits of the entire population here in Gaza," he added.
The previous record was set last summer when 3,710 Gaza children flew kites in a similar event organised by UNRWA.
UN officials said Guinness did not send an adjudicator because of general government travel warnings on Gaza and that the new record still has to be confirmed by the organisation.
Many of the children in the Gaza Strip still bear psychological scars from Israel's devastating January 2009 offensive, in which some 1,400 Palestinians were killed, including more than 300 children.
Amsiyat Awaja's house was destroyed during the war and her brother Ibrahim was killed, but on Thursday the 13-year-old had a smile on her face as she watched her kite swoop and dive high above the crashing waves.
"We still want to live and we still want to be joyful," she said.
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Many of the children in the Gaza Strip still bear psychological scars from Israel's devastating January 2009 offensive, in which some 1,400 Palestinians were killed, including more than 300 children.
Amsiyat Awaja's house was destroyed during the war and her brother Ibrahim was killed, but on Thursday the 13-year-old had a smile on her face as she watched her kite swoop and dive high above the crashing waves.
"We still want to live and we still want to be joyful," she said.
Can you not cover an event as carefree, supposedly non-political as kite-flying without the egregiously cynical, facetious references to the Zionist oppression they must endure to such utter deprivation, misery? Apparently not.
"We still want to live and we still want to be joyful," she said.
Yes, we want to live so that's why we choose to blow ourselves up. Makes perfect sense.
gag
It actually was reading ok, until the author just HAD to make an issue of the ongoing conflict, with blame pointed at the Israelis.
Too bad — it could’ve been a nice story.
she’s really a spotter for the grad rocket launched at Ashkelon today
“It actually was reading ok, until the author just HAD to make an issue of the ongoing conflict, with blame pointed at the Israelis.”
Yes, those evil Israelis have destroyed these Arabs to the point that they can’t do jihad any more and have to resort to flying kites for entertainment. Just evil!/s
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