Saying it was a response to rocket fire from Islamic Jihad, Israel has announced that they are closing all border crossings into the Gaza Strip until further notice, allowing only “essential” humanitarian goods in.
Those goods are going to be quite essential, as Gaza has limited access to food. One of the few food production industries in Gaza is fishing, where Israel tends to heavily limit fishermen. Today, Israel said they are banning all fishing until further notice.
This comes not long after Hamas tried to make a deal with Israel to end violence, and wanted to see as an incentive an increase in fishing rights. Israel has often used fishing as a way to punish the Palestinians, knowing it is one of their few sources of food.
Border closings are very common in Gaza, and Israel allows very limited forms of humanitarian aid in, allowing rice but not pasta on the grounds that pasta is a “luxury” item, and forbidding most processed foods.
Disgusting bastards !
They’d have to improve to reach those heights.
A new concept in concentration camp design. Inmates are supposed to feed themselves, build own shelters. The materials brought into the camp by the camp rulers are strictly controlled. Only so much cement, paper or pencils, only so many fishing nets, or food categories. And above all, Oslo agreement spells out that inmates are responsible for their jailers security. One instance of rebellion, and inmates will pay dearly. They will be bombed periodically, just to reduce the population, destroy some dwellings, clinics or ambulances. But inmate can leave, and never come back. Inmate cannot get a scholarship to study abroad and come back to family. That is the grand idea, leave the land — the sooner you all leave somewhere, the better. Humanitarian aid is not allowed in, only through Israel, and it is rationed according to rules.
And the first step is — starve them. They rely on fishing for much of their food.
This is Western baby. It is a symbol of our character, our vaunted values. And the first image that comes to mind to anybody ever being lectured on autocracy, democracy, free trade, human rights and dignity.
West has lost its moral right to leadership. Not that this is the only example of the Western leadership based on violence and pagan ethics. But it is the cruelest.
Some comments should be allowed to be upvoted more than once. This is one of them. Well said Bianca.