Launched
as a frivolous way to raise awareness and funds for The ALS Association,
everyone from Bill Gates to David Beckham has completed the Ice Bucket
Challenge - and nominated famous friends to take a drenching too.
Now residents of Gaza have launched their own version of the internet craze in order to raise awareness of the desperate conditions facing many living in the conflict-stricken territory.
But
rather than tip buckets of water - a precious resource in the Gaza
Strip - participants are filmed tipping rubble out of a bucket over
their heads.
Ayman
al Aloul, the Palestinian journalist who posted the first Rubble Bucket
Challenge said: 'I have to do something and to send a message all over
the world about Gaza.'
In
the video, filmed on a Gaza street destroyed by bombs, Aloul said that
he liked the idea of the Ice Bucket Challenge, but that he couldn't
justify using water.
He said: 'The
use of water is more important than to empty over our heads. And even
if the water is available it is difficult to freeze it.
He explained that he instead decided to use rubble taken from the remains of buildings.
The
inaugural Rubble Bucket Challenge video uploaded to the group's
Facebook page on Saturday. By Monday morning, nearly 2,000 people had
liked the page.
The Ice
Bucket Challenge - which asks every person taking part to make a
donation to a charitable cause - has raised nearly £40million for the
ALS Association, which works to fight the neurological disorder also
known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Macmillian Cancer Support has adopted the fundraising idea in the UK.
But
Aloul's aims are more modest. He said that, rather than 'material aid',
he wanted people to offer their 'solidarity and support' for the people
of Gaza.
He
said that, while he could see the benefit in having high-profile people
take part in his challenge, he wanted it to be seen as something for
all people to take part in.
He said: 'It is not for specific people but for all people who sympathize with the Palestinian people.
He added: 'We do not have water but this is what we have. Perhaps I will not find water to wash up with when I get home.'
The
challenge has taken off on Facebook and social network Twitter, where
users have shown their support by posting videos along with the tags
#RemainsBucketChallenge #rubblebucketchallenge and #dustbucketchallenge. Below is a pics of what remains of Gaza, as depicted by Daily Mail,
we can see the struggle and pain in the eyes of this people; When Two Elephants fight, we all know who suffers!!!
The first picture is the remains of a car hit by a bomb in Gaza, and the rest shows the adverse effect of war on a Nation!
Aloul's
video comes as it emerged that hundreds of Palestinians desperate to
escape Israel's bombardments in Gaza have been queuing to cross into
Egypt.
Thousands
of homes in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed or damaged in the
conflict and nearly 500,000 people have been displaced in the territory
where Palestinians, citing Israeli attacks that have hit schools and
mosques, say no place is safe.
Israeli
air strikes killed at least five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and
militants kept up their rocket fire on southern Israel on Monday,
witnesses and officials said, as Egypt pressed on with efforts to broker
a durable truce.
Palestinian
health officials say 2,119 people, most of them civilians including
more than 400 children, have been killed in Gaza since July 8, when
Israel launched an offensive with the declared aim of ending rocket fire
into its territory.
Sixty-four Israeli soldiers and four civilians in Israel have been killed.
#LET'S STOP THE WAR
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