Israel signals no easing of Gaza movement restrictions
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[url]http://news.yahoo.com/137/20100707/760/twl-israel-signals-no-easing-of-gaza-mov_1.html[/url] [quote=Reuters] JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli court on Wednesday rejected a request by a Palestinian woman from the Gaza Strip to study in the Israeli-occupied West Bank despite Israel's recent moves to relax the Gaza blockade. Three justices found for the Israeli Defense Ministry's view that Fatima Sharif, 29, a Gaza human rights attorney, "failed to meet the criteria" for an exit permit to entitle her to travel to the land-locked West Bank, where Palestinians seek a state. Sharif had planned to pursue a master's degree in human rights and democracy at Bir Zeit University near the West Bank town of Ramallah, where Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's headquarters are located. "We were not persuaded that in the current political and security situation, that personal circumstances would justify any intervention in the decision," the justices wrote. Human rights activists say Sharif is one of thousands of Palestinians unable to cross to the West Bank from Gaza due to longstanding Israeli restrictions tightened since Hamas Islamists who reject Israel's existence seized Gaza in 2007. Israel's cabinet eased a Gaza blockade last month, allowing in most civilian goods while keeping out items seen as enabling the manufacture of weaponry, a decision prompted by a world outcry after nine were killed on a Gaza aid flotilla in May. The Israeli decision did not lift restrictions that bar most Gazans from leaving the territory by crossing through Israel, but pledged to streamline the process of issuing such permits, a Defense ministry statement to the court said. Israeli exit restrictions for Gaza's 1.5 million people have only been lifted in humanitarian cases such as medical emergencies. Many Palestinians from Gaza also access the outside world through the territory's border crossing with Egypt. Sharif, who earned her law degree in Gaza, told Reuters she has not left the territory via Israel for years. "I feel like I'm living in a cage. Somebody is holding the key," she said.[/quote] [quote]Israeli exit restrictions for Gaza's 1.5 million people have only been lifted in humanitarian cases such as medical emergencies. Many Palestinians from Gaza also access the outside world through the territory's border crossing with Egypt.[/quote] Worlds largest concentration camp, good thing they border Egypt though.
Really glad to see Israel is 100% no doubts on board with the peace talks
can't wait for apologists to come in and defend the blockading of medical supplies like oxygen tanks through some dumb "they're defending themselves (by letting innocent palestinians die)" argument
Israel, you've got some 'splainin to do.
[QUOTE=Sigma-Lambda;23208343]can't wait for apologists to come in and defend the blockading of medical supplies like oxygen tanks through some dumb "they're defending themselves (by letting innocent palestinians die)" argument[/QUOTE]
They can create aircastles to shoot rockets from with the oxygen.
[QUOTE=Hamsterman;23208693]They can create aircastles to shoot rockets from with the oxygen.[/QUOTE]
no they can't
[QUOTE=Sigma-Lambda;23211275]no they can't[/QUOTE]
Tell Israel that.
[QUOTE=Sigma-Lambda;23211275]no they can't[/QUOTE]
Disagree
the israeli authorities didn't even confiscate the oxygen tanks because they could be turned into rockets (they can't with the technology available to the people in gaza), they confiscated the oxygen tanks because they had electrical generators.
[QUOTE=Sickle;23211302]Disagree[/QUOTE]
this was debunked in the thread about the oxygen tanks. and that's beside the point anyway because, like I said, that's not even the reason the tanks were confiscated. According to the israeli authorities, they were confiscated because they had electrical generators, which, of course they did because gaza doesn't have power.
innocent people are suffering and dying because of this shit, it's not a goddamned joke
[QUOTE=Sigma-Lambda;23211326]the israeli authorities didn't even confiscate the oxygen tanks because they could be turned into rockets (they can't with the technology available to the people in gaza), they confiscated the oxygen tanks because they had electrical generators.[/QUOTE]
But electrical wire is used in bombs, surely it is a plot to attack Israel!
I tried to support Israel in the past, but now the whole Palestinian/Israeli back-and-forth bullshit is persisting merely because both sides are seeing who can be the biggest dick to the other.
[QUOTE=dogmachines;23211393]But electrical wire is used in bombs, surely it is a plot to attack Israel!
I tried to support Israel in the past, but now the whole Palestinian/Israeli back-and-forth bullshit is persisting merely because both sides are seeing who can be the biggest dick to the other.[/QUOTE]
It's not like that. Israel is the aggressor here. The people who are attacking Israel are doing so because Israel is taking palestinian land and oppressing people in gaza. You can't even say "oh they're both to blame" because innocent people in gaza, who have never done anything to israel, are suffering and dying in great numbers.
It's not "all israelies versus all palestinians", it's the israeli government fighting some palestinians, but they're hurting countless innocent people in the process.
[QUOTE=Sigma-Lambda;23211468]It's not like that. Israel is the aggressor here. The people who are attacking Israel are doing so because Israel is taking palestinian land and oppressing people in gaza. You can't even say "oh they're both to blame" because innocent people in gaza, who have never done anything to israel, are suffering and dying in great numbers.[/QUOTE]
For this incident, Israel is solely to blame, but the friction between Israel and the surrounding countries has been going on since Israel became a country and this whole thing seems to be just another thing in a long line of Jew vs Islam issues. That being said, I agree Israel has no excuse for what they are doing, which basically amounts to directly killing the people in Gaza.
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