The map, which begins this week, is the result of students and professors in the Department of geography of the city of University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS). In addition to documenting its archaeological and tourist sites, the map includes practical information such as hospitals and Government buildings. Funded by the Bank of Palestine, English language is provided free of charge to the fate.
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"We decided to give Gaza its maturity," Amir Shurrab, lecturer at the of Department of Information technology and Chief of the Midad UCAS, the company that has implemented the mapping project, told the media line. "Gaza is the fourth-most-former City in the world.". This project was our dream and aspiration, which finally achieved us. »
Gaza has unique archaeological sites dating back thousands of years. The tomb of the Prophet Muhammad Hashem's grandfather and the recently excavated Hellenistic site of Tel Al-Rafah near the Egyptian border, where 1,300 pieces of silver were discovered, are just some of the highlights of the city.
Shurrab said there are enough tourists in the city and amount of other political activists visits to justify the creation of the map. So far, the only tool available to navigate in the city was a Google Maps printed, he is not detailed enough.Other people involved in the project admitted this ideology was instrumental not less that practice. Jamal Al-Khodary, President of UCAS, told Al-Quds daily that the idea of a tourist card could be regarded as a luxury, but that, in fact, the initiative is "a challenge to the blockade and aggression," describing an image bright for the Gaza Strip and of Palestine
Sari Bashi, Director of Gisha, an Israeli non-governmental organization seeking to increase freedom of movement and the Gaza Strip, said only the most dedicated and determined travellers would be luck never enter Gaza. In fact, an ordinary tourist - type who wants to explore the sites and are located on the Beach - cannot enter in all.
Subjected to a blockade since the Islamic fundamentalist movement Hamas control brought in 2007, the enclave has only two border crossings: the Rafah crossing with the Egypt and with Israel Erez crossing. There is an airport or a seaport in operation.
"It is difficult to enter through the Egypt, because its policy is in flux right now, and a visa is necessary to enter the Egypt," Bashi told the media line.
Enter on the Israeli side, to show the Israeli army that it is either a journalist, an employee of an organization of international aid, a diplomat or a foreign national with the family, in Gaza, she said.
"I'm not aware of people who applied for the express purpose of tourism and have been allowed to enter," said Bashi, although she admitted that Israel has loosened restrictions in the past year.
But Nabeela Maliha, an expert in archaeology working for the Ministry of tourism of Gaza, said the Israeli blockade created a new and unique tourism form: solidarity tourism.
"Groups, mainly in Europe and Southeast Asia, come in through the Egypt to identify with the people of Gaza," Maliha said to the media line. Beautiful weather and beautiful Mediterranean beaches make Gaza an attractive tourist destination in normal circumstances, but tourism potential stunted Israel Gaza, said.
"The occupation is the main reason." Tourism requires the control of your land, sea and air borders. We have none of this.
Maliha said the instability that Hamas from Gaza Gaza security as well as the reluctance of international organizations such as United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to cooperate with tourism Government injured too.
"The Hamas Government is under siege, this tourism is pushed down the priority list," she said. "The money in the budget is spent on food, health, education and construction projects.
As international activists scrambled vessels Council headed into Gaza despite the blockade imposed by Israel, Prime Minister of the Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh said Sunday that Gaza had successfully overcome the blockade through international development projects and investment of the Government.
"We have overcome years of cruel blockade our tenacity and sacrifice and today that show us that our population is more than the blockade and superior to the occupation," Haniyeh said at the ceremony of the cornerstone of a new Park and the stadium in the band of Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp.
Maliha denied that foreign feared that Gaza for reasons internal, although they were certainly good reasons for. In April, pacifist Italian Vittorio Arrigoni was abducted in Gaza and brutally executed by an extremist Islamic Group. In March 2007, correspondent for the BBC Alan Johnston was kidnapped in Gaza by the army of Islam, another extremist and kept in captivity for nearly four months.
Tourist sites are also covered by local fundamentalists. Park aquatic Crazy, opened in May 2010 for the classes of Gaza, was burned four months later. The Park had been closed by the Government of Hamas in August because he helped mix of men and women.
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