Militants Put Gazans In Danger

Finally it looks like innocents are standing up for what is right.

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Militants Put Gazans in Danger, Group Says
By FARES AKRAM and ETHAN BRONNER
Published: March 30, 2011

GAZA — A Palestinian human rights group in Gaza took the unusual step this week of condemning the building and storage of anti-Israel rockets in densely populated areas, a practice that has led to injuries and deaths of civilians.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said that it had investigated recent rocket explosions and found that locally produced projectiles had fallen on homes in Gaza or exploded in factories where they were made or stored. Shrapnel severely wounded several people, including a 22-year-old woman and her 7-month-old baby.

It called on the Hamas government, which controls Gaza, to investigate “and take measures to protect Palestinians and their property.” It added that “members of the Palestinian resistance continue to store explosives or to treat such explosives in locations close to populated areas.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/world/middleeast/31gaza.html?_r=1

Bad Nmysys, you peeked....

Don't look over there Nmysys, look at Libya, & Yemen... Over there!, Over there!, disregard the country behind the curtain.

IMO everything that is going on in the ME is geared towards Obama's attitude towards Israel.

Spin it this way...

Isreal Puts Gazans in Danger

No Reconstruction Allowed - Public Health at Risk
Despite billions pledged for reconstruction, practically none of it has come because of Israel's tight embargo on virtually everything needed. As a result, thousands of displaced and destitute families live in cramped quarters with relatives or in tents as their only other alternative.
Some emergency repairs were carried out, but "only to the already unsatisfactory level prevailing before December 2008." Overall, the infrastructure is inadequate, overloaded, and subject to breakdown. Although chlorine is available to disinfect water, sewage and other waste matter seepage remains a major threat to public health. Each day, 69 million liters of partially or untreated effluent are pumped into the Mediterranean for lack of an ability to handle it.

Poor Access to Health Care
Gaza's health care system is in disrepair and can't adequately treat patients with serious illnesses. In addition, with the Territory under siege and a strict embargo imposed, most people can't leave to seek care elsewhere. Those allowed out endure a bureaucratic nightmare and wait months before permission is granted. For some, it's too late and for others their condition has worsened.

A Strangled Economy
The combination of siege and Operation Cast Lead devastated Gaza's already fragile economy. Palestinian Chamber of Commerce reported that unemployment reached 65%, poverty hit 80%, and the longer isolation continues the higher these figures will go. Currently, about 96% of Gaza's industrial operations are shuttered, and over 80% of its residents depend on humanitarian aid and supplies from the World Food Program, UNRWA, and what comes in through tunnels from Egypt to survive.

Farming in the Danger Zone
Farm families comprise over one-fourth of Gaza's population, and they, too, been badly hit. "Exports of strawberries, cherry tomatoes and cut flowers used to be" important cash crops. No longer as they've been virtually halted. Farmers lost half their income and struggle to sell what they can internally at far lower prices than obtainable from exports to Israel or Europe.
Operation Cast Lead destroyed thousands of citrus, olive and palm groves as well as irrigation systems, wells and greenhouses. In addition, many farmers lack fertilizers and many seedling types. They also lost access to around 30% of their land, the portion inside a "no-go" buffer zone straddling Israel and Gaza. It extends up to a kilometer inside an Israeli-erected fence on which farmers risk being shot if they work there. Under these conditions, productive agriculture is severely curtailed and in some places not possible.
Fishermen has been just as hard hit by Israel's coastal restrictions extending up to six nautical miles offshore. Reduced catches have resulted as bigger fish and sardines, comprising 70% of earlier harvests, are found in deeper waters.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14393

Nmysys wrote: IMO everything that is going on in the ME is geared towards Obama's attitude towards Israel.

Attitude and pure weakness in the eyes of the crazies over there!!

Spin it this way...

Ever heard the phrase, Being your own worst enemy?

Let me give you a history lesson. The Palestinians have started a number of wars against Israel. They have lost all of them. Israel took some land to build somewhat of a barrier between the major cities of Israel and its enemies after fighting against 5 of them. That land was land that they since have given to the Palestinians, Gaza. Instead of trying to make Peace and have help building an infrastructure, they choose to wage this Intifada war on Israel. They have continuously attacked through suicide bombers, missiles, sneak attacks, always killing innocent civilians. They allow Hamas to run their government. Do they or do they NOT have the Right to Defend themselves? All of these conditions in Gaza are the result of attempting to protect themselves. War dictates tactics. You want them to do what? Not retaliate in the same fashion as their enemy?

I know you. You would not stand by and not fight back, or defend your home, your lovely wife, your animals and property. I can understand wanting to help others and by thinking about it, and posting your feelings about it, it makes you feel better. Unfortunately the problems in the Middle East have been going on for many centuries, and they are too complex to take so lightly.

Question? Where are the Jewish people to go? You would like to see them give the land back to the poor Palestinians? Then when you realize that the Palestinians are considered the stepchildren of the Arab world. What will that land and country look like in a few years? It will still be the poorest and most illiterate! Or become a haven for Al Quaeda. Without Israel there that whole part of the world would then show you that they are our enemies and want to destroy ( kill ) us.