Patrick Cockburn writing for England's Independent newspaper (excerpt below):
A whole society is being destroyed. There are 1.5 million Palestinians imprisoned in the most heavily populated area in the world. Israel has stopped all trade. It has even forbidden fishermen to go far from the shore so they wade into the surf to try vainly to catch fish with hand-thrown nets.
Many people are being killed by Israeli incursions that occur every day by land and air. A total of 262 people have been killed and 1,200 wounded, of whom 60 had arms or legs amputated, since 25 June, says Dr Juma al-Saqa, the director of the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City which is fast running out of medicine. Of these, 64 were children and 26 women.
This bloody conflict in Gaza has so far received only a fraction of the attention given by the international media to the war in Lebanon.
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'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now'
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