Gaza. I agree it is a massacre and should stop immediately.

[Uncle Joe]

44. The Gaza Ghetto is severely aggravated by Israel's blockade. Any peoples trapped into a dense

open air prison will try to find any means possible to resupply and struggle to be free.

For the Palestinians in Gaza it's building tunnels, for the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto it was having their children go out and smuggle items in.

The blockade against Gaza has been going on for at least six years.

The Gaza Ghetto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip

Gaza has an annual population growth rate of 2.91% (2014 est.), the 13th highest in the world, and is overcrowded. There is a limited capability to construct new homes and facilities for this growth. The territory is 41 kilometers (25 mi) long, and from 6 to 12 kilometers (3.7 to 7.5 mi) wide, with a total area of 365 square kilometers (141 sq mi). As of 2014, Palestinians of the Gaza Strip numbered around 1.82 million people. The large Palestinian refugee population makes it among the most densely populated parts of the world. Sunni Muslims make up the predominant part of the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip.

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Between December 2000 and June 2001, the barrier between Gaza and Israel was reconstructed. A barrier on the Gaza Strip-Egypt border was constructed starting in 2004. The main crossing points are the northern Erez Crossing into Israel and the southern Rafah Crossing into Egypt. The eastern Karni Crossing used for cargo, closed down in 2011. Israel controls the Gaza Strip's northern borders, as well as its territorial waters and airspace. Egypt controls Gaza Strip's southern border, under an agreement between it and Israel. Neither Israel or Egypt permits free travel from Gaza as both borders are heavily militarily fortified. "Egypt maintains a strict blockade on Gaza in order to isolate Hamas from Islamist insurgents in the Sinai."

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Human Rights Watch has advised the UN Human Rights Council that it views Israel as a de facto occupying power in the Gaza Strip, even though Israel has no military or other presence, because the Oslo Accord authorizes Israel to control the airspace and the territorial sea. Other NGOs and other pro-Israel entities have been reported to contest that specific view.

The economy of the Gaza Strip is severely hampered by Egypt and Israel's almost total blockade, the high population density, limited land access, strict internal and external security controls, the effects of Israeli military operations, and restrictions on labor and trade access across the border. Per capita income (PPP) was estimated at US$3,100 in 2009, a position of 164th in the world. Seventy percent of the population is below the poverty line according to a 2009 estimate. Gaza Strip industries are generally small family businesses that produce textiles, soap, olive-wood carvings, and mother-of-pearl souvenirs; the Israelis have established some small-scale modern industries in an industrial center. Israel supplies the Gaza Strip with electricity.

With 70% of the Palestinians living below poverty, they have no choice but to build tunnels to feed their people, if nothing else.

Israel empowered Hamas in the beginning as a counterweight against Arafat's PLO and further strengthened the only force that would resist the oppression and jailing of the 1.8 million people living in Gaza, most of them refugees or children of refugees.

Netanyahu's blind hatred and abusive policies created Hamas, and the continuing blockade combined with the mass murder against a virtually helpless opponent will only breed a new generation of Palestinians with a vitriolic hatred for Israel willing to fight and die for their freedom.

I've said it before and I will say it again hate only feeds hate and blind hatred will ultimately consume the hater.