Sun 28 Dec 2008
At last, the long promised re-invasion by Israel’s occupation army finally started today.
The Gazan, who have been under blockade since Hamas took power, has been pestered as a culprit by world media. The truth is, the Gazan is the one who has been under blocakade (=occupation) without even basic necessities as a human being. What they did by launching a crude rocket is to gather attention to their plight.
Al-Shanty bakery in Gaza City is one of the Strip’s largest, supplying tens of thousands with bread. Yesterday, hundreds of people crowded outside the bakery in a very long queue, waiting for a bag of bread. Children, women and men were awaiting the chance to buy some bread, which has become scarce as Israel has not allowed the import of adequate supplies of flour and cooking gas.
“Our bakery is out of bread for days now and what we have will only last for another 24 hours. In fact, we stopped our work yesterday as we ran out of flour. Now, we use animal feed which will finish in a matter of hours,” explained 24-year-old Abed Masod while he busily worked at the bakery.
As John Ging, the head of operations of the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), told The Electronic Intifada in November: “there was five months of a ceasefire in the last couple of months, where the people of Gaza did not benefit; they did not have any restoration of a dignified existence. We in fact at the UN, our supplies were also restricted during the period of the ceasefire, to the point where we were left in a very vulnerable and precarious position and with a few days of closure we ran out of food.”
So, according to Israel, the meaning of truce/ceasefire is: “Palestinians have the right to remain silent while Israel starves them, kills them and continues to violently colonize their land.”
The Zionist who play victims in Holocaust, now is the new oppressor. They thought by blockading and invading Gaza, they can make Gazan and the whole Palestinian as their slaves.
Read more truth information from EI.
Al-Jazeera has broadcast a press conference from Gaza
