I realise I am grabbing the 3rd rail with this thread, but I feel I cannot stay silent any longer. The attached news report makes truly shocking reading:
Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says
Not only is the Israeli government and army denying food supplies to the people they have displaced. They have also destroyed fishing vessels, orchards, olive trees and greenhouses, for no good reason. Children are suffering extreme malnutrition, at a level that will stunt their growth and ruin their lives.
Most of Gaza has been reduced to rubble and almost the entire population of 2 million people, herded, like cattle, up against the Egyptian border in the South, at Rafah. And now the Israeli army is about to destroy Rafah, too. Just last night, a government spokesman said in a BBC radio interview Israel has a plan to move 1.4 million people from the Rafah area to locations he was not willing to disclose. He did not deny the suggestion that they may be transferred across the border to Sinai. Once there, if that is indeed the intended location, I am sure they will make it very difficult for any of them to come back.
This Israeli government seem to be embarked on a Final Solution. I do not use those words lightly. It is disgusting beyond words that Israel, of all nations on Earth, should be doing this. They should to be arraigned before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
