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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Sunday, July 16, 2017
Video: Break the silence on Gaza with people power
Ali Abunimah - 15 July 2017
After 10 years of Israeli siege, the United Nations says Gaza is effectively unlivable.
After 10 years of Israeli siege, the United Nations says Gaza is effectively unlivable.
Israel has consigned the people of Gaza to “living in abject poverty
under practically inhuman conditions unparalleled in the modern world,”
the human rights group B’Tselem said last month.
In recent weeks the situation has deteriorated even further, as Israel
has sharply cut the electricity supply, bringing available energy in
Gaza to the lowest level ever.
Health, water and sewage treatment systems are breaking down, making life unbearable.
“This is not a natural disaster. This is a policy choice by Israel to do
this to 2 million people, and it’s a policy choice the so-called
international community are supporting,” I told Aaron Maté of The Real News.
“At best the so-called international community scrambles to do an appeal
to various donor governments to patch up, to do palliative care,” for
people in Gaza, I told Maté. “What they don’t do is challenge Israel and
hold it accountable.”
By refusing to provide people in Gaza with basic health and other
services, Israel, as the occupying power, is committing war crimes, I
argued.
And it’s happening in silence – even Democracy Now, a flagship progressive outlet, has mentioned the situation only in brief and infrequent headlines.
The humanitarian catastrophe is also the result of collusion between Israel and the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.
Abbas wants to put political pressure on Hamas, which governs the interior of Gaza, by inflicting additional suffering on the 2 million Palestinians who live there.
This pressure has included curtailing medicine supplies to Gaza and
refusing medical referrals for hundreds of patients who need urgent
treatment outside the territory, leading to more than a dozen deaths.
“It’s up to us to challenge the institutional complicity and silence,” I
told Maté. If regime media don’t make noise about Gaza, “people should
be demonstrating, holding protests at the UN and Israeli embassies, at
Palestinian Authority embassies, because they’re all complicit in this
siege.”
Watch the video above.