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Gaza starves as the world does a Pontius Pilate?
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Sunday April 27, 2008 13:28 by TD - Free Palestine Campaign
"The collective punishment of the population of Gaza, which has been instituted for months now, has failed" (UN Special Coordinator, Robert Serry) Fuel and medical shortages, unbridled Israeli military attacks, trade embargoes, travel restrictions and now the food crisis has brought Gaza to the edge of an all out humanitarian crisis: out of a population of 1.4 million, the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), last Thursday, due to the Israeli fuel blockade has halted food aid to 700,000 refugees and the World Food Programme to another 127,000. Michael Jansen in last Friday's Irish Times http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0306/bre....html states that: "Due to the grounding of its vehicles, UNRWA also reduced operations at 214 schools serving 200,000 children and 19 health centres as well as refuse collection in eight refugee camps housing 500,000" John Ging, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA in Gaza, on 24th April 2008, confirmed that flour mills were set to run out of fuel and that many ambulances had been forced to remain idle as they lacked petrol, the central pharmacy was in dire need of fuel for refrigeration with vaccines for 50,000 infants at risk of spoiling because of lack of refrigeration and that rubbish continued to pile up in the streets as refuse trucks were unable to move. Ging said that: "People are desperate. Everybody needs fuel. If the farmers can't get fuel, they can't pump water to irrigate their crops. About 70,000 people are without water in their homes; 25 per cent are getting water once every four days because of electricity cuts. All the hospitals are below the critical mark in their fuel resources. The laundry service in Gaza's biggest hospital has been reduced by 50 per cent, with all the unhygienic consequences. Teachers have no fuel to drive to their schools. It's not the distributors' responsibility to decide between hospitals and municipalities, or whether a doctor should get fuel." |
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