Child killed in Israeli air attack
5/6/08
A four-year-old girl has been killed and her mother wounded in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip.Another woman was also wounded in the attack which the Israelis said had targeted Palestinian armed groups. The attack came after Palestinian fighters shelled an Israeli kibbutz (collective village), killing one person and injuring three others. The girl and her mother were outside their house near Khan Yunis in southern Gaza when a drone fired a missile, witnesses said.
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‘Gaza suffers from rolling Israeli-engineered crises’
Michael Jansen; 5/6/08
The only Palestinians allowed to enter and leave Gaza, home to 1.5 million people, are those with permits to seek medical care in Israel or abroad. That day, Palestinian operating scanners in the security area told me 70 Palestinians left through Erez. Egypt allows only very special persons, like Tutu, through Rafah. The day I visited, 70 Palestinians left through Erez. Gaza is the world’s largest prison camp. But 99 per cent of its inmates have not committed any crime. The only goods entering the strip are essential foods, medicines and shrinking amounts of fuel. Israel restricts imports to essential “humanitarian supplies” and blocks Gaza’s exports. There is not enough fuel for the lorries to cart away the rubbish. People cannot circulate because there is not enough fuel for service taxis and buses. Bakeries are closing down due to electricity outages and a lack of fuel to deliver bread. Schools closed early for summer vacation because large numbers of pupils could not travel to them. Gaza suffers from rolling Israeli-engineered crises. The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides essential foodstuffs for more than 800,000 of the strip’s citizens, constantly hovers on the brink of halting ration distribution because of the lack of diesel for its lorries. The only Palestinians allowed to enter and leave Gaza, home to 1.5 million people, are those with permits to seek medical care in Israel or abroad. That day, Palestinian operating scanners in the security area told me 70 Palestinians left through Erez. There is not enough fuel for the lorries to cart away the rubbish. People cannot circulate because there is not enough fuel for service taxis and buses. Bakeries are closing down due to electricity outages and a lack of fuel to deliver bread. Schools closed early for summer vacation because large numbers of pupils could not travel to them. Gaza suffers from rolling Israeli-engineered crises. The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides essential foodstuffs for more than 800,000 of the strip’s citizens, constantly hovers on the brink of halting ration distribution because of the lack of diesel for its lorries.
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