Under Siege - Israel/Palestine

June 2008
Since Israel began its blockade, Gaza has rarely been out of the news. We take a look at life behind the blockade and the headlines and we see a people left suffering and angry.
'Enough!' shouts a gas-buyer in the market, 'We are a people who have had enough!' The mood in the market, as in Gaza as a whole, is one of misery and anger. No one is allowed to enter or leave Gaza, and restrictions have been placed on water, fuel and electricity. 'This is the problem with Gaza', says John Ging, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency. 'The problems are identified, the solutions are known and yet nothing changes other than the situation continues to get worse and worse'. Karima Al Doul has cancer in an advanced stage. Before the blockade she used to travel to Israel for chemotherapy, but now treatment is unavailable and she has only months to live. Karima worries about the five children she will leave behind. It is the vulnerable that have suffered most from the blockades, she tells us. 'Many sick people have died because of this blockade. They are sick; this is not their fault'.

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[grownup007]

GAZA = AUSCHWITZ

Israel Army = Criminals & Childkillers

Tzipi Livni = NAZI whore

Olmert = HITLER

DEATH TO ALL SIONIST FUCKKKK EM ALLL I HATE U THE HALL WORLD HATE UUUU SHIIIIIT !!

[HeratBoy09]

Zionists=israel zionists= biggest bastards in the world zionists= inventors of terrorism zionists= killers of children and women zionists= hande medias and lie in media zionists= the most hated people in the world zionists= killers of jesus zionists= criminal colonialists zionists= will destroy the world zionists= danger for humanity zionism= ideology of terror and colonization.

[Nesreen221]

@Cleverman50 how could you say that?!?! WTF is your problem! That's cruel to kill inoccent people and get away with murder, you seriously have some fucked up mind! Go get a life you freak. I'm not against all israelis but your one of those who just don't have a heart and just fucking dumb! Smh!

[bugsy13038]

Gaza is a terrorist ruled toilet.

It needs a good flushing.

[owaisinus]

I feel so sick to watch these people's lives being ruined by the actions of the Israeli troops and their blockade of the Gaza Strip, I say death to all these Israeli pigs who have no sympathy for human lives...

[shayshalom]

long live Israel! we give them medical care n work n they bomb in our cities killing children n women n then ask themselves y they r under siege. Why the arab world don't help them built hospitals n medical care if they care of them so much. y do Israel need 2 help it's radical enemies n 2 b attacked everyday..

[Jorge Oliveira]

Long Live Justice, Long Live Israel!

May God bless them

[Yhudination]

This is just like the Jenin massacre right? WHICH WAS A LIE MADE UP BY THE ARABS... YOU CANT TRUST AN ARAB AND ANY SIGN OF FRIENDLINESS IS SEEN AS WEAKNESS IN AN ARABS MIND. NO NEGOTIATIONS UNTIL WE GET GILAD SHALIT BACK.

AL MAUTOO ARABIM.

[vascoa]

Agreed, they are responsible for hamas being in power, which means they are eligible to suffer while they support hamas....

I actually hope the elections where rigged and hamas is a dictator organization, otherwise there is nothing to save on gaza.. ..

[slLLyhumans]

F*ck Your Flotilla !

[plavac22]

Hamas was legally elected under UN watch.