After a three-and-a-half-year legal battle waged by the Gisha human rights organization, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories has finally released a 2008 document that detailed its "red lines" for "food consumption in the Gaza Strip."
The document calculates the minimum number of calories necessary, in COGAT's view, to keep Gaza residents from...
- By Arieh Zimmerman
- 09 Apr 2013
- 08:27PM
It should be noted that, justifiably or not, thousands of workers who had worked for decades in the Israeli economy are no longer allowed into Israel to work. That being the case, the average income of families in Gaza has plummeted and the cost of food from local Gazan merchants was, (is), out of the reach of a great portion of the public in Gaza. Their sustenance now is almost totally supplied by the UNICEF. There are about 1,500,000 people in Gaza; the Hamas commands about 25,000 armed troops. The rockets and attacks on Israel are committed by a tiny minority of the population of Gaza. %98.3 of the population are punished collectively for the actions of less than %2.0. That has only increased the reservoir of Palestinians willing to plunge our common border into blood and death. Given that Hamas must bear its share of the blame, does the current situation promise any hope for the people of Gaza, or for Israelis?
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