Colonial Suffocation – No Energy for Gaza

April 10, 2008

Yesterday four Palestinians from the totally blockaded Gaza strip undertook a desperate mission.

They slid through the border to Israel and infiltrated a fuel depot under Israeli control, the sole source for energy for 1.4 million people in the strip. They killed two Israelis and in the following "revenge" the Israel army killed eight Palestinians.

I believe the Palestinians were wrong to do so. But the Israeli reaction, as seen below, is worse.

Three Palestinian organisations have announced that they took part in this. Hamas, who won the last Palestinian election but were shunted from power by the U.S./Israeli puppet Abbas, was not part of this attack.

Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack, along with a group linked to the Al-Aqsa Brigades. A spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees said that members of three groups, not including Hamas, infiltrated the crossing.

Still Israel announced that it will try to internationally blame Hamas as responsible for the raid.

Israel will launch a diplomatic offensive with the United Nations and international aid organizations to emphasize that Hamas is responsible for the cross-border raid which killed two Israeli civilians on Wednesday and the consequent humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The fuel in the depot, though sitting on Israeli land (why isn’t there an accessible port in the ‘unoccupied’ Gaza?), is solely for Gaza and payed for by the EU.

The infiltration occurred after the latest delivery of fuel funded by the European Union, Western diplomats said.

After the attack Israel first promised to keep the already much reduced fuel supply to Gaza going for "humanitarian reasons".

Israel said it would hold Hamas responsible for Wednesday’s attack because it is in charge of the Gaza Strip but would not cut off the fuel supply to residents there. "The policy is to continue to bring humanitarian supplies to Gaza," Foreign Ministry spokesman Aryeh Mekel said.
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All cooking gas and oil, heavy diesel fuel and gasoline provided to the Gaza Strip go through the Nahal Oz crossing by a series of undergrounds pipes.

But obviously Israeli official words are just that. Now it has cut off all supplies.

Israel cut off the only source of fuel to Gaza’s 1.4 million people Thursday after a deadly Palestinian raid on the Israeli depot, deepening the seaside territory’s hardship.

Israel, in its colonial expansion, daily kills Palestinians who resist the occupation and annexation of their land.

More so, it is collectively punishing all Palestinian people, be they old or young, for the doings of those who resist to the stealing of their land. There are people in Gazan hospitals who will die tonight because their hospitals lack gaz for their generators.

There are kids dying from not cooked waste water they’ll have to drink.

The Israeli blockade of fuel for Gaza is a "war crime" with all consequences included in that term.

Posted by b on April 10, 2008 at 20:48 UTC | Permalink

Comments

we if see if the press treats this more importantly than it does when israelis go into gaza and kill palestinians, as they do w/regularity.
this is so sad.

Posted by: annie | Apr 10 2008 21:33 utc | 1

If only the Palestinians were as cute and huggable as the Tibetans…

Posted by: biklett | Apr 10 2008 21:48 utc | 2

so the shoah continues.
i would say more, but the ADL is scary.
of course we always lose when self-censorship seems the most prudent thing to do.

Posted by: Lizard | Apr 11 2008 2:12 utc | 3

Israeli soldiers stormed our house hundreds of times; it was always him who somehow held them back, begging for his children’s safety, as we huddled in a dark room awaiting our fate. “You will understand when you have your own children,” he told my older brothers as they protested his allowing the soldiers to slap his face.
I have a child now, and I understand what he felt. b is right, this is monstrous. demonic.
Nearly everyone is vulnerable to becoming one of those young soldiers slapping a father’s face, and the leaders who put young people in that evil position deserve no pity. none.

Posted by: citizen | Apr 11 2008 2:51 utc | 4

Uhh, b, “kids dying from not cooked waste water they’ll have to drink”?
Can you spell, “aluminum foil solar powered cooker”?
http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Minimum_Solar_Box_Cooker
When we lived without electricity (for three years) we built something like this
with plywood and a sheet of polished metal film, and were able to “solar dry”
forty pounds of fruit in a single summer day … and that was at latitude 45º.
Even remote villages in primitive countries know about solar water purification.
Just sayin’…

Posted by: Terrence Micheals | Apr 11 2008 3:06 utc | 5

from bright to dim i follow
a scaly tail that darts about like a
swallow, and i’m curious
how you’ll explain the planes and trains
of terror to my son
when the trouble of people is done and over
with, when there’s no more need for a
pesticide genocide against
Dandelions.

Posted by: Lizard | Apr 11 2008 5:30 utc | 6

terrance,
Can you spell, “aluminum foil solar powered cooker”?
yeah like duh. all my neighbors have them! they’re at least as common a douche bags. i always whip mine out whenever the authorities go native on me.

Posted by: annie | Apr 11 2008 11:57 utc | 7

7 Palestinians killed in Gaza attacks

Israeli forces launched air strikes and a ground raid in the Gaza Strip Friday, trading fire with gunmen in clashes that killed seven Palestinians including a 12-year-old boy, Palestinians said.
The deaths drove the Palestinian death toll to 13 in Israeli strikes retaliating for a militant attack that killed two Israeli civilians at a border fuel depot Wednesday.
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Posted by: b | Apr 11 2008 14:14 utc | 8

Israel continues its slow suicide.

Posted by: Fade | Apr 11 2008 21:41 utc | 9

uncle sham incited a pogrom against hans and huis.
he get away with this act of war and now CHINA become the international pariah. meanwhile, uncle is sitting pretty, giving lecture on human rights and no doubt chuckling to himself at the chinese’s humuliation.
brilliant, cia’s “might wurlitzer” is playing at full blast.

Posted by: denk | Apr 12 2008 18:03 utc | 10

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