20.1.08

The Latest News From The Gaza Ghetto: Total Darkness


Picture: AFP/MAHMUD HAMS

Children marching in Gaza after Israel enforced a total, 100%, fuel blockade.

From The Guardian, Gaza's darkness in pictures.

Ali Abunimah: Where does it end ?


The Guardian, in pictures: Palestinians flood Egypt looking for food and fuel after militants blew up part of the border wall at Rafah.

Mark Tran: All Eyes on Egypt's treatment of the Gaza Blockade.

Robert Malley: "Defusing the Gaza Time Bomb".

The German Press: "Hamas is not going to disappear into thin air"

Karen Koning AbuZayd: This brutal siege of Gaza can only breed violence.
As the head of a humanitarian and human development agency for Palestinian refugees, I am deeply concerned by the stark inhumanity of Gaza's closure. I am disturbed by the seeming indifference of much of the world as hundreds and thousands of Palestinians are harshly penalised for acts in which they have no part.

Chroniques de Palestine: A Photoblog on Gaza and the occupied territories.

The blockade isn't new, Israel has been slowly asphyxiating the occupied territory, well before.

2 comments:

Ted said...

Crimes, Crimes, Crimes against humanity....

The would should be ashamed of itself for letting Israel do this!


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Sophia said...

Ted,

The wrold couldn't refuse anyhting to Israel and this is why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, despite being very simple to end, Israel must apply UN resolutions and retreate behind 1967 borders, seems so complexe. Facts created on the ground by Israel, and which the world has been going mostly silent, are the first obstacle for peace, not hand made Kassam rockets by Hamas...

 
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