By Yousef Ghaben
It became very clear that Turkish-Israeli reconciliation is coming soon after conformed remarks had been delivered by both Turkish and Israeli officials reiterating this. Gazans hope this reconciliation would end their nine-year old siege.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has recently said: “Israel is in need of a country like Turkey in the region and we have to admit that we also need Israel.”
Turkish-Israeli diplomatic relations were severed since May 2010, when the Israeli commandoes violently cracked down on Freedom Flotilla, which aimed to break the siege on Gaza, and killed ten Turks on board.
Following this, Turkey had three main conditions to restore the diplomatic relations with the Israeli occupation, including ending the Israeli, Egyptian and internationally backed siege has been imposed on Gaza since mid-2007.
Since the very beginning, the Turks insisted on complete end of the siege on Gaza. However, they are seeking now unrestricted access to humanitarian aids from Turkey to the besieged coastal enclave.
Indicating possible progress, Erdoğan said that the Israelis had proposed to allow goods and construction materials into Gaza if they came via Turkey.
Erdoğan reiterated that he would only accept a written agreement to ensure Israeli commitment to its terms. This reflects some progress has already been achieved.
Observers say that the mutual agreement between the two sides is inevitably coming soon. Feeling they would be benefited from such an agreement, Gaza residents are following each pit of information emerged out of this angle.
Gazans have got fed up with the strict siege, which restricts their freedom of movement and having a decent life. After losing hope with the international community, which supports the siege, Gazans are now opening wide eyes towards a potential Turkish-Israeli agreement.
More than 330 patients from Gaza have so far died due to the restriction of their movement. Hospitals suffer from shortage of spare parts and proper maintenance for medical equipment.
Hundreds of students have lost their places in international universities and thousands of workers have lost their workplaces due to the oppressive siege. Gaza has only between 12 to 16 hours electricity on every day.
In the space of eight years, Gaza experienced three destructive Israeli offensives. The last one, in 2014, the Israeli occupation killed more than 2,260 Palestinians, injured around 11,000 others, destroyed almost more than 18,000 housing units and displaced around 500,000 civilians.
Hundreds of families are still homeless, having no shelter and suffering cold and rainy winter as the Israeli occupation is still putting sever restrictions on the entrance of contruction material and donors delay their payments for the reconstruction, too.
Many different parts along the Gaza Strip have no running water, electricity grids or sanitation. Most of the Gaza water is not drinkable, according to international NGOs’ reports.
Moreover, due to the siege, Gaza has the highest unemployment rate across the whole world and this has already paralyzed the already ailing economy.
For all of these reasons, Gazans hold great hopes on the Turkish-Israeli reconciliation.
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Yet, they do not hide fears such wishes might be just dreams that would never be realised by reaching this deal.
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