Zinedine Zidane is going to support the residents of Gaza –
December 3, 2009 – 11:51 pm
international football stars Zinedine Zidane is going to visit Gaza in the framework of the UNICEF to promote peace between the Palestinians and Israel. Three times the best football player in FIFA world will arrive in the besieged Palestinian enclave in March 2010 as Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF.
“I am honored to be the envoy of the UN Children’s Fund during a visit to the Gaza Strip. I’ll try to do everything in my power to the faces of the people of Gaza smiles. They are very badly affected by Israeli violence, “- said Zidane.
Israel took Palestinian enclave in the iron grip of the blockade in 2007, when Hamas crushed the revolt, organized by the Fatah Muhammad Dahlan, close contact with the Tel-Aviv, wrote “Palestine-info”. In December 2008, Israel began an unprecedented in human history, war, when armed with phosphorous bombs army attacked the unarmed Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. During this aggression, killed over 1400 Palestinians, thousands were injured, damage to the region, estimated at 1.6 billion dollars.