Gaza in 'full-blown' humanitarian crisis

[spanone]

Red Cross warns 500,000 civilians in danger; Israel rejects calls for truce

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Gaza is now in a "full-blown" humanitarian crisis, a senior international Red Cross official said Tuesday as Israeli ground forces edged closer to major population centers.

International Committee of the Red Cross head of operations Pierre Kraehenbuehl said the situation for Palestinian civilians is "extreme and traumatic as a result of 10 days of uninterrupted fighting."

He said ICRC staff in Gaza told the neutral body Tuesday that the previous night was "the most frightening of all to date" on account of the ground offensive Israel has launched in the Palestinian territory.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28404637/

[Dorian Gray]

1. I was right up there, believing they had the right

to defend themselves from the barrage of rockets fired onto their land.

I am not of the opinion that this is total overkill and Israel needs to knock it off. It makes me so sad to read about this conflict every single day. And it just escalates.


ETA: My sentence above is a typo. I meant to write I am NOW of the opinion. It changes the context.

[spanone]

3. neither congress or the white house appear to give a flying fuck about this

[malaise]

8. They don't give a flying

fuck. Aaron Miller is leading a sensible discussion on CSpan.

[Bandit]

4. But do the Palestinians?

This has been going on for a lot longer than just the last couple of weeks. The Gaza Strip has been under lock-down now for several months. People are starving and dieing from unsanitary conditions forced upon them by the Israelis and their blockades. Do they not have a right to fight back in the only manner they can?

[Dorian Gray]

5. I made a mistake in my post above

I meant that I am NOW of the opinion that Israel needs to knock it off.

They are hurting themselves, the Palestinian people, and the world with their actions.

[ShortnFiery]

2. Well I guess it's beyond time that us peons get with "the M$M team" and say in unison ...

"Israel has a right to defend herself?" :sarcasm:

[Sensitivity]

7. Pres. Carter's analysis is correct. The I/P situations is a crushing "apartheid" w violence

inevitable on both sides.

It is just ghastly that Israel is engaged in relentless "retaliation" for a level of violent resistance that is really inevitable unless the palestinians accepted assignment to a slave culture.

[malaise]

9. 100% correct

Carter has always been fearless.

[baldguy]

6. Being attacked and invaded by a foreign army will do that.

[Sensitivity]

10. Reports of bombing of UN school argue against Israel's pin-point targeting claims

Next thing is the UN moving out because of deaths of their staff

[slipslidingaway]

11. K&R n/t