January 7, 2009
Gaza strikes pause briefly to allow humanitarian aid

The Israeli military stopped its strikes for a few hours on Wednesday to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, and it says it will continue to allow some food and fuel into the region in the coming days.

Strikes resumed, as did Hamas rockets, after the pause.

Bernard Barrett of the International Committee of the Red Cross joins Martin Savidge to discuss the effectiveness of aid in Gaza, the state of hospitals there and how the ground invasion has impacted the ability of humanitarian organizations to operate.

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To Marcel,
It is rather a long comment and I do not have time to read it all. But I got the jest of it. You are fine with killing civilians en-mass to banish their democratic votes. People like you will always find an excuse for Israel’s massive abuse of the rights of the Palestinians and their illegal siege of a nation that does not wish to be controlled by colonists. It is a God-given right to defend against occupation. France did against Hitler and the Algerians did against the French. What is so different in the Palestinian case? Israel practically stole the land from the natives and now accusing the natives to be barbaric and uncivilized to justify killing and ethnically cleanse them. If Israel has good intentions, why they do not leave the West Bank where it is very calm there. There are more than 600 road blocks in the West Bank and not was removed. If Israel desire is calm and peace, they could start with the West Bank where it is quiet. But Israel’s real intention is in catering to the settlers who live by the hoodlum laws and thievery of the Palestinian land and olive trees. The truth is starting to come with the gruesome images of the Israeli brutality and massacres and all people of conscience should be appalled by Israel’s behavior, not excuse it.

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From my understanding, the Aid that the Palestinians receive is humanitarian aid, donated through different charitable organizations.

Libya tried to send in powdered milk….and other necessities was turned away in early December, because there were no diplomatic relations between Libya and Israel. Qatar tried to send in medicine and was pressured to back down from the Israeli government.

BTW, its unfair to shift the blame on other Arab countries, when truth is, Gaza is not an open country. Anyone, people cannot just get into Gaza. Try asking Neta Golan, who was arrested for going into Gaza, when in fact, she didn’t enter through Israel.

There are some of us out here who knows what is going on, or have enough information to know that Israel has gone MAD, crazy, treating people worse than North Korea and Cuba!!!!

#1

I wonder if the Palestinians who voted Hamas into power realized that they also voted hell and destruction into Gaza ?
They are reaping the long overdue reward of the choice they made.
I wish Israel had responded harshly towards Hamas at the first missile strike,maybe things would have been different ?
Instead Israel chose the Neville Chamberlain approach of appeasment.
The majority of Gazans never take personal responsibility and always blame others for their misery and they are aided in this denial of responsibility by the world community who use them as ‘victims’ in their anti-Isrsael agenda.
It’s easier to blame Israel than to tell the people of Gaza that their hatred and violence based culture is hurting them more than it is hurting Israel.
Instead the West makes sure the people of Gaza will always be victims.
This is planned so they can use the misery of Gaza to blame Israel.

Why is it that the majority of the aid comes to Gaza from Israel and not Egypt ?
We Christians have a bible saying which is;
What you sow you will reap.
Even with all the aid and billions of dollars dumped into the hell hole of Gaza for half a century it does not seem to have made a dent or fixed anything there.

It’s easy to see that Gaza is a cursed place and it is not hard to understand why when so much energy us used up to hate Israel and the Jews and to exterminate Israel by the majority of the population there.
With much of Gaza in ruins as a message from Israel for their ongoing attacks,they can wake up and change or feed on the hatred that radical Islamic terrorists groups like Hamas provide so well. They have an opportunity to plant seeds other than hate to reap a better future and remove the curse which hangs over Gaza.

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