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Israel Cuts off Food Supply to 1.5 Million Civilians in Gaza City
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by kate | November 22, 2008 at 11:01 am
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Again Gaza is being squeezed, this time with Israel refusing international pressure to let food through to the 1.5 million civilians who live there.
For the second time this week, Israel on Thursday resisted a plea by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip
There is only enough food to last the weekend. There are blackouts. I don't understand why the world is standing by and letting this happen. These are civilians.
Israel says "accounts of shortages are exaggerated to stir sympathy for Gaza" and they have banned reporters from entering. What possible reason could there be to ban reporters, unless they don't want the world to see what a modern holocaust looks like.
Israel says they are doing this because there are rockets coming into Israel from Gaza. But according to the LA Times, the rockets halted Thursday, and still there is no food.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced Thursday that they were ready to halt the attacks if Israel opened the crossings and stopped the incursions. The attacks from Gaza tapered off Thursday; the Israeli army counted just one incoming rocket, which caused no harm.
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at 11:02 on November 23rd, 2008
Israel is not being asked to supply this food, only to let it through. But it is not letting it through.
By the way, it is hard to understand a focus on legal duties when there are people starving. The image here is of one and a half million people facing starvation, and you standing there watching, and saying "no one is under any obligation to help". What about an ethical argument, won't that do?
at 12:05 on December 31st, 2008
What the law says or doesn't say is irrelevant faced with a human induced crisis akin to a modern day holocaust. The Jewish people have first hand experience of this so how can those who themselves have been persecuted treat innocent women and children in the same way. The Israeli attack must stop in the name of humanity.
I agree International Law says a country has a right to protect its borders and its people and that any force it uses in its defence must be proportionate. Each life is precious but i don't think that 393 Palestinian dead to 4 Israeli dead is proportionate. Not when 20% of the dead are women and children and not when 40% of the 2000 injured are women and Children and not when 750,000 of the 1.5 million population is made up of children under 18!
Its not about race or religion, its about 1.5 million innocent PEOPLE being locked in an area half the size of the Isle of Man (UK) without food, water or heating and being treated like rats whilst another nation, contrary to international law, slaughters them one by one. Little or no aid is getting through to these people, the borders are closed, the hospital can not cope and there are limited medical supplies. We are not asking Israel to give anything just to let those people who do want to help, actually help the needy. Let the aid through.
at 00:42 on November 23rd, 2008
What does international law say about Israel's obligations to provide anything for Gaza??
for more comprehensive discussion of this go to http://tinyurl.com/5mypkz
at 12:49 on December 31st, 2008
BBC Radio 4 has been carrying reports all day about this increasing humanitarian crisis. From the UN, from the Save The Children charity, etc.
Legal niceties are irrelevant.