Gaza 'crisis as bad as Lebanon'

[Gamer X]

BBC News

The United Nations has called on world leaders not to forget the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, saying it is at least as serious as that in southern Lebanon.

More than 140 people have been killed during Israel's operations there over the past month, many of them civilians.

Delivery of food and other essential items has been reduced to a trickle.

Thirty aid agencies backed the appeal, and one charity spoke of a sense among aid agencies that Gaza's population was being terrorised.

Care International told the BBC that Western nations had failed to put pressure on Israel to rein in its actions and that attention was being focused on Lebanon at the expense of the situation in the Gaza Strip.

According to the UN, Israel fires around 150 shells into the tiny territory every day in a bid to stop Palestinian militants who fire an average of 10 rockets across the border.

Israel says it needs to target civilian areas because that is where militants base themselves but aid organisations say Gaza's population of 1.4 million is living in perpetual fear.

'Nowhere safe'

Several nights a week the noise of Israeli helicopters vibrates over Gaza followed by the sudden explosion of air strikes.

Israel has begun dropping leaflets and leaving telephone messages warning residents not to stay near militant homes but aid organisations say such measures leave people terrified and with nowhere safe to go.

The UN is currently sheltering 1,000 people in schools in Gaza.

Many others have moved in with relations.

Aid agencies are also calling on Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.

One hundred and fifty trucks carrying food and essential supplies are currently crossing the border each day but according to Care International this is only just enough to stop the population from starving.

To keep people from being hungry and to restore food security, they say, Israel needs to increase this to 400.

Gaza's population is already living in the dark.

Since Israel bombed the power station homes are often without clean water or electricity and health officials say they are worried about the possible spread of disease.

 

[IrateLeaf]

duh...
We all know the BBC has almost always sided against Israel.
They even admit to such doings.
Thus coming from you.
You have a few different sources?
Of course it really wouldn`t matter becuase this is just like all the other posts.
You can always find a side that agrees with your stance.
Regardless of being fair or not.

 

[EagleKeeper]

so let the PA government step in and resolve the problem.

They created the situation and they are now seeing the consequences of their actions.
They learned well from Arafat.
Cause, effect and whine.

 

[daniel49]

I think the tunneling and kidnapping of the Isreali soldier was step one in The new Hamas Govt. solution for thier people.
/sarcasm

 

[Zebo]

Real simple: Don't rain down hundreds misslies at a soverign country or kidnap it's soldiers and their will be no crises. Israelis are far too gentel US would have invaded if we even thought a misslie was launched.. Israel put up with it for months. I get called an anti-semite sometimes because I think Isrealis are weak but it's true. They have been stabbed in the back so many times and never learn and instead cut and run from thier rightful settlements.


But the real deal is hamas and Hez were paid to incite ever since disengagment to divert worlds attention from Iran's nuclear abitions so it's not like they did'nt expect it..only sooner they were hoping.

 

[Lemon law]

Can Israel tell which of the Palistinian residents they are killing on a daily basis voted for or against Hamas? But it only rationilized as a collective guilt and I certainly can't blame those
Palistinians if they feel they are being held in bondage. If a known terrorist slipped into a local USA Walmart---would the US bomb the entire store---killing hundreds of innocent
shopper in the process---just so they could be sure of getting that one terrorist. In the USA the answer would be a definite no---in Iraq it would be a maybe---and when its a
maybe or a certainty---you can tell that the occupying power regards these mostly innocent people as second and third class inferiors.

In my book a life is a life---------and Israel---a country born by terrorists---well now understands how effective a weapon they have to deal with---and now faced with a new stark choice.
Either become a greater bully---thereby increasing the hatreds---or defusing the crisis with more humane treatment----have unquestioning and unanamiously opted to be the bigger bully when confronted by organized terrorists.-------and now the Israelie army is nothing more than a highly organized set of terrorists---systematically breaking things and killing people in a totally indiscriminate manner---not even a UN outpost is safe.

At this point in time its pointless to say side A started it and side B is finishing it----its just one never ending cycle of tit for tat violence---with neither side in the right.---but as a rough guess---I would say for every Israelie innocent civilian killed---10 to 15 innocent Lebanese pay the price---and only a tiny fraction are Hezbollah.

Will there ever be peace in the mid-east?----------not if the world allows the hatreds to build at this rate------the Palistinian people need to have some hope for a future----and that involves a Palistinian State.---I have to feel this a wake up call to the world----step in and impose a settlement that addresses all issues----and then impose and enforce that settlement.