It only takes a couple of small concessions for the blockade to be lifted.BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces have killed nearly 2,300 Palestinians and injured 7,700 in Gaza over the last five years, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Thursday.
Some 27 percent of the fatalities in Gaza were women and children, the UN agency said in a report highlighting the effects of Israel's blockade.
The land, sea and air blockade of Gaza entered its sixth year on Thursday.
Under the blockade, exports have dropped to less than 3 percent of 2006 levels.
In just these findings of the UN addressed in the above 4 paragraphs, we see multiple war crimes of Israel identified, an illegal Blockade of Gaza that is collective punishment and a war crime under the Fourth Geneva Convention, substantial unlawful killings of civilians that include women and children (over one fourth of those killed fall in this category), substantial unlawful attacks on a civilian population in Gaza that are collective punishment and have injured 7700 in Gaza and slaughtered nearly 2300 in Gaza.
UN: Israeli forces killed 2,300 in Gaza under blockade | Maan News Agency
The full UN report can be downloaded from this site.
Five Years of Blockade: The Humanitarian Situation in the Gaza Strip, June 2012 (EN/AR) | ReliefWeb
I particularly enjoyed the account of the tunnel rats being killed in these un-official reports.
And, ever heard of human shields?
Hossfly,
Israel is committing daily war crimes by imposing that illegal Blockade on Gaza that deprives 1.7 million human beings in Gaza, over half of whom are children, of their basic human needs every single day. There is no right to commit war crimes, like impose this illegal Blockafde on a civilian population a state is carrying out an Occupation with respect to. There is no right to impose conditions on a civilian population and in exchange refrain from engaging in war crimes against that civilian population.
Why do you choose to be an apologist for war criminals? I find it hard to imagine any conduct lower in life to choose to engage in...
Sherri
Unless it is to be an apologist for your terror-rat comrades.
BTW, that blockade is absolutely legal. those poor, poor kids are absolutely receiving their basic human needs (to the extent that Hamas allows), and Israel is abosolutely commiting no war crimes (unlike your terror-rat buds).
You've swallowed the Paliprop, hook, line and sinker and there is no better way to gauge your progress here than to find Sunni Man patting your ass. He's an unrepentant Nazi and he loves your camel crap. Not a good sign.