Gaza faces failed harvests after the bombardment by Israel

[DogPoundPup]

Samir Sawafiri pointed at several dozen hungry chickens scavenging for food between the crushed bodies of nearly 65,000 other birds strewn across a destroyed farm in Zeitoun in Gaza City.

“They are all that is left and I have nowhere to put them,” he said. The poultry farms around Zeitoun used to be the Gaza Strip's main provider of eggs, according to Oxfam. Little but twisted metal and crumbling concrete now remains of the poor suburb on the eastern outskirts of Gaza, one of the areas hit hardest during the war.

“I evacuated on January 9,” Mr Sawafiri said. “Three days later, on January 12, tanks came with bulldozers and levelled the fields. They wanted to spoil the economy - that is the only answer. There is no justification for what they did.” Israel says that Zeitoun is a known Hamas stronghold, and that militants used its fields to launch Qassam rockets into Israel.

International aid groups say that while Israel's continuing restrictions on the flow of goods and relief workers into the devastated enclave is hampering emergency efforts, the destruction of Gaza's agriculture means that harvests are likely to fail and the Strip will depend more on handouts.

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[Chulanowa]

1. Starve them until they beg to be allowed to leave

This is Israel conducting ethnic cleansing the "clean" way.

[DogPoundPup]

2. yep, "long-term effects of unexploded ordnance and chemicals"

and allowing minimal aid trucks in <Aid groups say only 100 or so trucks are being allowed in every day, while even before the fighting at least five times that number was needed.

In addition, there is pilfering. “There is quite a bit missing,” one UN worker said. “On some trucks it is 15 to 20 per cent of the goods. We don't know who is taking it - the Palestinians or maybe Egypt, or Israel.” Another aid worker said that gunmen had been involved in some of the aid diversion. “We are well aware that hijackings do take place,” he said.

also blocking international aid workers:

“It is unacceptable that staff of international aid agencies with expertise in emergency response are still not given full access into Gaza, and that the crossings are not fully operational for humanitarian and commercial flows of goods and people,” said Charles Clayton, head of the Association of International Development Agencies.

Such blatant oppression in a so-called civilized world.

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. Israel is a puppet of the PNAC gang in the USA

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Murder and genocide are normal

The Depleted Uranium spread around Iraq and Afghanistan in the last 7 years guarantees death in those countries for centuries.

USA sucks