Palestine struggles under sanctions

S.A.M. said:
You mean they haven't adapted to their starvation diet yet?:eek:

SAM, you might like to read my post no. 340, if you have missed it. It deals with the accusations against the B.B.C.. Something tekks me spock win't want to know.
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Mr.Spock said:
diet is another conspiracy by the zionists.
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A really good joke?

The team, headed by the prime minister's advisor Dov Weissglas and including the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, the director of the Shin Bet and senior generals and officials, convened for a discussion with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on ways to respond to the Hamas election victory. Everyone agreed on the need to impose an economic siege on the Palestinian Authority, and Weissglas, as usual, provided the punch line: "It's like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won't die," the advisor joked, and the participants reportedly rolled with laughter.
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Beatrice Megevand Roggo is the ICRC's head of operations for the Middle East and North Africa.

"The measures imposed by Israel come at an enormous humanitarian cost, leaving the people living under occupation with just enough to survive, but not enough to live a normal and dignified life," she said.

The Palestinian population has "effectively become a hostage to the conflict," she said.

The ICRC says Israel's "severe restrictions" on the movement of people and goods, imposed to tighten security, have deepened economic woes and affected every aspect of life in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.The ICRC estimates that 5,000 farmers in Gaza and their families relying on exports of cash crops like carnations and strawberries are "about to suffer a 100 per cent drop in sales."

"The harvest season for these important crops started in June, but the embargo on exports has left them rotting in containers at the crossing points," it said.

Getting medical care or studying in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Israel or abroad has also become "nearly impossible," except for those needing life-saving treatment, the ICRC says.

ICRC spokesman Florian Westphal says bout 823 sick people - nearly one-quarter of the 3,568 requiring medical care outside Gaza - have been prevented from leaving the territory for treatment over the last six months.

He says administrative and security clearance delays "have resulted in the deaths of three patients in favour of whom the ICRC had intervened."

Mr Westphal says restrictions have also caused a shortage of drugs for cancer patients and a lack of spare parts for emergency wards and operating theatres in Gaza's hospitals.

In the West Bank, the ICRC says many Palestinians have been powerless to prevent the confiscation of their land.

As a result of the West Bank Barrier, built inside Palestinian territory, the ICRC says "large tracts of farming land have been out of reach for farmers," who must fight through "a bureaucratic maze" to get permits needed to reach their fields.
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Mr.Spock said:
Myles said:
and that means its a conspiracy by the evil zionists ? :p

so you gonna buy me a ticket to the ME so ill see whats going on there myself?

I would buy you a one-way ticket if I thought it would achieve anything. As you know so much about Israel, I'm surprised you are not aware that the visa you need will only allow you to see what the Israeli's want you to see.But with your attitude that woul be ok , I imagine
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Myles said:
Mr.Spock said:
Myles said:
and that means its a conspiracy by the evil zionists ? :p

so you gonna buy me a ticket to the ME so ill see whats going on there myself?

I would buy you a one-way ticket if I thought it would achieve anything. As you know so much about Israel, I'm surprised you are not aware that the visa you need will only allow you to see what the Israeli's want you to see.But with your attitude that woul be ok , I imagine
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this so funny. SAM, help him :D
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