Israel Made Me Set Myself on Fire
September 3, 2012 13:27 by Simon PloskerThe Guardian
reports that an unemployed Gaza man has died after setting himself alight, apparently in protest over his family’s dire living conditions.
Harriet Sherwood expands on Gaza’s woes including unemployment, population growth and “Overcrowding, lengthy and frequent power cuts, unsafe drinking water, poor sanitation and inadequate medical care”.
Up until this point, there is no mention of who or what may be responsible. But then comes the rub:
Israel enforced a tight blockade of Gaza for four years after Hamas took control of the area in June 2006, banning most imports, exports and the movement of people. Although it eased the blockade in 2010, there are still heavy restrictions on importing construction materials, exporting almost all goods and the issuing of permits to leave Gaza via Israel.
No responsibility attributed to Hamas, the terror organization that governs the Gaza Strip.
And what about the “impoverished” Gaza? Khaled Abu Toameh writes:
But according to an investigative report published in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, there are at least 600 millionaires living in the Gaza Strip. The newspaper report also refutes the claim that the Gaza Strip has been facing a humanitarian crisis because of an Israeli blockade....
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