http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3042255.stm
Terje Roed-Larsen, the UN special envoy for the Middle East peace process, said the "drastic" restrictions in place at the Erez crossing had stranded UN workers on either side of the border.
"With such a total clampdown, where even staff with a UN laissez-passer [pass] fail to get in and out of Gaza, it really makes a bad situation worse," he told the BBC.
What possible justification could there be for this aside from spite? There's never been a bombing by a UN worker after all.
On Tuesday morning, Israeli troops pulled out of the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun which they seized five days ago, reportedly leaving a trail of destruction behind them.
This is typical behavior of the IDF, if an attack comes from a Palestinian town, they destroy the town. Can you imagine living a life where at any time the house you live in may be torn down along with all your posessions? Possibly with little or no warning to you and your family?
Nearly two-thirds of the population of Gaza were refugees who relied on the UN for health care, education, social services and other relief, he added.

"The Gaza economy is totally crippled," Mr Roed-Larsen said.

"We have now about 75% of the population living below the poverty level, which is less than $2 a day. We have an unemployment rate which is pushing 50%, and I think these figures alone show how terrible the situation is there."

and now Israel is stopping aid from reaching these people. The number of Palestinians who have been murdered directly by the IDF is high enough. I wonder how many die as a result of the conditions they are forced to live in?

JPs...and they won't stop untill they've completely bulldozed gaza.
Rafah is already virtually reduced to rubble, the dozers are working day and night. The IDF have completely surrounded gaza, they shot Michael miller, a TV director, as a warning to other western journos, who attempt to report the truth about gaza. They want Gaza to dissappear completely from the minds off the world, so that they can continue to completely level gaza, whilst the west oohhs and aahs over pics on fox TV every few days showing the "terrible" Palastinian terrorists bombing Civvies.

Yeah, and its not just fox news either...at the bottom of the article i linked there's a little chart listing all the recent suicide bombings..no mention is made of Israelis terrorism.

The TV here in England is pretty good, thank god for programs like Panorama, newsnight, and Despatches.

I saw an amazing doc on despatches (channel 4) about the killing of peace workers in Rafah (see my thread "Rafah")

and it completely blew my mind. It's scandalous what's going on in Gaza. I'm deeply sympathetic to the Palastinian cause, but my views do not lie with extremeists like Hamas, yet when I saw that program...it spun me around 360 degress, and got a completely different perspective. Extreme conditions and environments have extreme affects on people. The Zionists created the hellish envvironment and conditions that drove young men to fight for their liberty, the IDF's actions made them even more desperate.
After watching that program, I thought if i was a young palastinian who has had friends, family killed by the IDF, if I had seen IDF snipers shoot and kill inocent civilians, if I had been shot at,...I'd pick up my AK47...for sure, and I'm no "terrorist" I'm just a regular guy, and those kids are too...they're just regular people, in extraordinary circumstances.