Charity Founding Members Sentenced to 65 Years

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Two founding members of the charity organization The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development were sentenced to serve 65 years in prison. They and 3 others were charged with funding programs for schools and social welfare controlled by Hamas.

Schools are for the education of children, and social welfare is to help those in need. In places where people are leading desperate lives, and where the society is in perpetual economic turmoil, offering help through charity is normally considered to be a laudable act.

Were these charity organizers seeking to help children in need of schooling and those desperate for welfare, or were they intending really to render aid to a terrorist group that they should deserve such punishment?

A Population Under Siege | Gazans Break Down Barriers

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.