The television images of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, women and children, old men and young men, crossing into Egypt to buy essential supplies including food and fuel once again dramatically bring to the world's attention the on-going privations and suffering that these people have been enduring and are still enduring.
How could it be that a whole civilian population is made to suffer to the point that they have to break down barriers in search of food and fuel? What humanity does a government have that coldly resolves to inflict suffering, starvation and impoverishment on a whole civilian population?
Yet this is what is going on, and the U.N. Security Council still cannot persuade the mighty powers to lift the cruel and genocidal blockade that is the cause of all this.
How could it be that a whole civilian population is made to suffer to the point that they have to break down barriers in search of food and fuel? What humanity does a government have that coldly resolves to inflict suffering, starvation and impoverishment on a whole civilian population?
Yet this is what is going on, and the U.N. Security Council still cannot persuade the mighty powers to lift the cruel and genocidal blockade that is the cause of all this.
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