Gaza: Where every day is a miracle :: Kenya

Armed with a pistol, a mobile phone, a walkie talkie and an infectious sense of humor, the grandfather with greedy pony tailed hair

"Look at the kind of gifts our neighbors feel. These are shrapnels of rockets meant to harm me and my people but I am not bitter. "
And with a beguiling smile Friend Shaked adds, "I do not want the people who want me dead dreams. I have mine but it is not always safe to announce what you dream at night ".
Turning his back to his audience consisting of 23 journalists from East and Central Africa, the general manager at the border explains that life at Kerem Shalom Gaza crossing point is like an orchestra.

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Heavily guarded

This is the managing director entrusted by Benjamin Ntenyahu's government to control the Gaza Strip. He walks his guests out of his heavily guarded office where even toilets are ring-fenced with concrete embarkments that are over ten meters high.

Before marching past one of the steel gates he is carrying out his tasks of checking truckloads being ferried into Gaza.

We have a normal day, he says, he lets through about 700 trucks loaded with goods in and out of Gaza, where an estimated 2 million people live under the iron fist of Hamas.

In the case of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Ntenyahu has been ordered by Hamas who launched explosive kites and balloons from Gaza. Shaked says the old crossing made of glbad was destroyed by missiles from Gaza.

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After the badault, Israeli forces moved 800 meters into the Gaza Strip and flattened that was used by snipers and crested a buffer zone. Every day about 70 Palestinians travel from Gaza strip crossing point. Here their boss is Shaked.

Their work is to load cargo before inspection.

Theirs too is a dangerous flirtation with death for when bombs, rockets or snipers rain fire towards Israel, they too are not discriminated against Shaked philosophies; the Israeli and Palestinians work side by side, trust and love is not part of the game. They are united by mutual suspicion even if they screen the trucks and cargo.

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The goal is to minimize contact between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the threat of hostage taking.

So every morning trucks are in charge of the world. Once the drivers are photographed and the Shekels men are satisfied that they posed no danger they drove into a big compound surrounded by high concrete walls.

Then the Palestine drivers leave the trucks unmanned with their generators in the hot desert climate.

Inside the compound has a gigantic scanner electronically slides through, engulfing the trailers. No photos are allowed in the scanning zone. Satisfied that there are no explosives or other contrabands the drivers then drive them into yet another compartment. There is absolutely no contact between the Israelis and their neighbors.

"What goes in and out of Gaza is determined by a list submitted daily by Palestinian authorities," says Shaked. "There are attempts to smuggle bomb making chemicals, uniform military and guns".

He adds: "If I am killed today, my prime minister will talk about it for a short time but if Hamas captures me one of my men, this will lead to a serious crisis. I must be safe for all of you. "

Although it is not categorized as a dangerous product of its transportation in Gaza, it is used to make tunnels.

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The tunnels, according to Israel Intelligence is for smuggling weapons and terrorists to attack Israel.

Back at Kerem Shalom crossing point, the border guards have been unloaded. To ensure there are no bombs hidden in the trucks, the cargo is unloaded in an empty compartment.

The lorry and the loaders then leave the compartment and sniffer dogs are used by them. At times this takes place and has overhead rockets. "It is daily war," Shekel, retired Israeli soldier says.

"King Abdullah of Jordan imports a trick of furniture every month through this crossing. It is nothing personal, this is purely business. "

Even if it explains this a big white balloon glides high in the sky. This we are told with the help of the Israeli defense forces to deter attacks.

Shaked, who says he fears nothing is concerned about the deployment of "crude technology," which defies the iron dome. This is the technology used by Israel to detect, warn and intercept missiles fired by Isis and Hamas. Along the way to the Gaza crossing we are shown patches of burnt grbadlands and pastures which were fired from Gaza.

Besides every bus stop along the highway are bomb shelters where they have a few seconds before they are torn to pieces.

The Israelis leaving in Gaza are more than just kites and balloons than bombs and snippers.

At the Kerem Shalom crossing point, the silence of the rockets and the roar of trucks laden with supplies does not mean peace. Fingers are forever on the trigger.

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Here at the battle front near Gaza nothing is what it looks like in their destiny. Children too have learned to scamper when they see a kite or a balloon.

In the meantime, the two hundred and eighty-one trucks of the United States are heavily taxed.