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Aid groups say the world failed Gaza over Israeli blockade
Children peering through hospital walls smashed in the last Israeli putsch
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Aid agencies have strongly criticised the international community for failing to help bring an end to Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
The charities made the accusation in a report published just ahead of the anniversary of Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip. They…condemn not just Israel, but the world community.
In the words of Oxfam’s director, Jeremy Hobbs, “world powers have failed and betrayed Gaza’s ordinary citizens“.
The charities call for more pressure to be exerted on Israel to end what they describe as its illegal collective punishment of Gazans.
A spokesman for the Israeli prime minister told the BBC that Israel remains committed to humanitarian supplies of food, medicine and power.
Just not committed to an adequate quantity – of those supplies. They starve the Gaza ghetto as the Nazis did to Warsaw.
But he said that sanctions will remain in place as long as Hamas is, as he put it, committed to destroying Israel and killing Israelis.
A “logic” that is equally offensive to anyone examining those sections of Zionist politics calling for the extermination of Arabs.
