The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) suspended some of its Gaza operations on Thursday after its compound was struck by Israeli shells. Israel claimed militants were firing from the compound.
After 20 days of war, the death toll has surpassed 1,100 and thousands more have joined the endless lines for food. Relief agencies like UNRWA have struggled to meet the basic needs of those in the region.
A new weapon has also been introduced into the conflict: The smokescreen artillery shell. Some say it contains phosphorus, though the Israeli army denies that claim.
Andrew Whitley, the head of the New York office of the UNRWA office for Palestine refugees, joins Martin Savidge to discuss the current humanitarian situation, the U.N. compound and the use and legality of phosphorus in artillery shells.
08/15/2009 :: 09:55:59 AM
zohier Says:
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well concerning yhe points of egyptien and israeli losses all the figures mentioned here arebased on israei sources which makes it suffer bais.
for ex.the western estimates for israeli air forces not loss than 200 air crafts
eastern one 280 .
respectable military writers like Edgar O’Ballance estimates Egypt losses only 500 tanks
while isreali 1000+.
any way the political objective of the war achived as the results proved to the israelis that their suporioroty is not originated from them .
and tgeir talk about civilization gao between them and the arabs is just nonsesnse & crap
they also learned the price they will pay if they tried to fall around with Egypt ir go beyond their size .
Egypt forced them to negotatitions table acheiving its political objective and both banks of the channel was under the control pf Eegypt WHILE THE THE ISRAELI ARMY WERE stretched thin
from the gap it made with heavy costs at the waest bank of suez channel to golan hights and the egyptoen forces surrounded the israeli forces in the gap with twice the forces of the israeli army which just small pass was linking it to its bases from which logistics the egyptien army if the israelis didnot with draw from the gap was ready to attack it but the negotiations between sadat of Egypt and us secertary of states were fruitful and fullfilled egyptien demands .
any way just to show how the israeli casulties werer high i quote from I.L KENEN chair man of the american israeli public affairs committee saied” if the united states faltered and delayed and if the prople of israeil had not recived the needed equipment in time ,we might have witnesed catastrophe”
president Nixon “during the first 12 days of conflict the united states has authorized shipment to israel of material costing 825 us dollars including shipments cost”
finally for human losts respectable sources like
BBC confirm israel lost about 6000 soliders
and arabs Egypt and Syria about 8000.
not like the israeli myth of the only 2500 they claimec lost in the war.
(PEACE) upon you all