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Originally Posted by Chronik-Judge  Do you know what a cease-fire is? Why should it be Israels job to improve living conditions? That was the stupidest comment i'v heard in a long time. No offense Seriously man? Honestly? Show me a concentration camp. Stop fucking spreading your filth.
Seriously, I was ready to debate with you at the beginning of this post, but if you're going to literally lie. Then fuck it. You aren't worth it.
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According to the UN, Israel is an occupying power of Gaza. They agreed to leave in 2005, but left their roadblocks, and numerous checkpoints along the Israeli/Gaza Strip border.
Here's a nice little read for you:
http://heathlander.wordpress.com/200...uman-blockade/
They may not have a presence within the strip, but they control everything that goes in and out. Heavy economic restrictions and a limited supply of basic goods are causing a “progressive deterioration in food security for up to 70 per cent of Gaza’s population”. People are being forced to cut household spending to “survival levels”. “[T]he embargo has had a devastating effect for a large proportion of households who have had to make major changes on the composition of their food basket,” causing a “[steady] rise” in “chronic malnutrition”. The poorest two-fifths of the population now survive on only 50p per person per day, and many have been forced to sell jewellery and even household appliances to buy food and other necessities. The Red Cross concludes that if the blockade is not halted “economic disintegration will continue and wider segments of the Gaza population will become food insecure”, while “the prolongation of the restrictions [on trade] risks permanently damaging households’ capacity to recover and undermines their ability to attain food security in the long term.” Only a removal of the embargo “can reverse the trend of impoverishment”.
The Red Cross’ findings, shocking as they are, are
fully consistent with what the UN, the World Bank and leading human rights organisations have been
reporting since early 2006, when the current siege began. To call the present situation in the occupied territories a “humanitarian crisis” is slightly misleading in that it suggests a lack of agency behind it. In truth, the civilian population of Gaza has been “
intentionally reduced to a state of abject destitution” with the tacit complicity or, in our case, the active participation of the entire international community.
In June of this year a ceasefire was agreed between Israel and the various militant groups in Gaza. Hamas had been calling for a comprehensive ceasefire with Israel for months, a proposal Israel repeatedly rejected in favour of a sharp escalation in violence, killing more than double the number of people in Gaza in the first three months of 2008 than in the corresponding periods of the previous three years combined. When this failed to weaken Hamas’ hold on the Strip, or even to decrease the number of Qassams being fired at Israel (indeed it, of course, achieved precisely the opposite), the Israeli government finally, reluctantly agreed to a ceasefire.
There had been hope that the truce would lead to an end to the blockade and a substantial easing of the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Instead, Gaza has remained in a state of “virtual siege” (.pdf) in which “[s]hortages of electricity, fuel, safe water and sanitation frame daily life”, while the general population has seen “few dividends from the ceasefire“. Israel permitted virtually “no improvement in the movement of goods and people in and out of Gaza” and there was “no relaxation of the total ban on exports” (.pdf), a prerequisite for the revival of the Gazan economy.
All of which meant that the eruption of violence over the past week, precipitated by an Israeli strike in Gaza, was always a mere matter of time.
If you're unaware, an Israeli force entered into the Gaza strip and killed 6 Palestinians on November 4th, again breaking the cease-fire by military force, if that better suits you.
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And ok, not a concentration camp. Open-air prison, better?