Gaza is under siege. There are no construction materials. Israel and the world are dictating conditions, the Palestinians are unable to form the unity government that is considered necessary, there's no money or cement to be seen......No one knows if they will ever be handed over. Word of America.
Exactly 3 months have passed since that much discussed war, and Gaza has once again been forgotten. Israel has never been interested in the well-being of her victims. And now, the world too has forgotten. Two weeks without even a single Qassam rocket have swept Gaza away as a theme for discussion. If the residents of Gaza don't get a move on and start firing again, no one will be interested in their situation. It's certainly nothing new, but it is a particularly depressing and painful message, which is capable of triggering off the the next round of violence. And at that point, they will certainly not receive any aid, because they will be firing.
Once again, the world must remedy the disasters caused by Israel. But Israel is putting more and more political conditions on the delivery of humanitarian aid. Israel uses empty justifications for leaving Gaza in a state of destruction and not offering the aid that Gaza deserves and of which it has desperate need. Gaza has once more been left to it's own devices and when the hostilities restart, we will once again hear talk of the cruelty and the brutality.... of the Palestinians.
Gideon Levy, Israeli journalist
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The war crimes continue:
The occupying power has the duty of supplying the food and medical needs of the population. It must import food, medicines and other indispensable articles if the resources of the occupied territory are insufficient.
(art. 55 4th Geneva Convention)
The occupying power has the duty of supplying the food and medical needs of the population. It must import food, medicines and other indispensable articles if the resources of the occupied territory are insufficient.
(art. 55 4th Geneva Convention)
The civilian population of Gaza continues to die slowly, strangled by the criminal and immoral embargo, accompanied by the silence of the media and of the "democratic" governments:
Silence
- about the blocking of the entry of goods, including humanitarian aid.
- about the impossibility of people including many seriously ill to leave the Strip.
- about the farmers killed by Israeli snipers when they try to work their own land.
- about the fishermen machine-gunned by Israeli warships that prevent them putting to sea to fish and feed the population.
Silence makes us complicit in this continuing massacre.
The Egyption government blocks humanitarian aid - solidarity from the whole world - as shown by the tons of food, water, clothing, medicines blocked in Al Arish, togegther with ambulances and industrial generators, as documented by the Italian group Music for Peace, who were also prevented from delivering aid donated by Italian solidarity.
Land of Milk and Honey
Much of what is now stockpiled in Northern Sinai - including food - has been defined by Israel as "not essential" to life in the Gaza Strip.
Two thousand “family packages” – each containing essential supplies for a Palestinian famil, donated by Music for Peace – was turned back by the Israeli authorities at the al-Auja crossing. The reason: each package contained a jar of honey.
We demand:
- The opening of the Rafah crossing for the entry of aid and of international volunteers
- The ending of the criminal embargo against the Gaza Strip
- Freedom of movement for residents of Gaza
