Death and Darkness in Gaza, People are dying, Help us!

[conspiracy analyst]

Death and Darkness in Gaza, People are dying, Help us!

A humanitarian crisis is underway as the Gaza Strip's only power plant began
to shut down on Sunday, and the tiny coastal territory entered its third
full day without shipments of vital food and fuel supplies due to Israel's
punitive sanctions.

The Gaza Strip's power plant has completely shut down on Sunday because it
no longer has the fuel needed to keep running. One of the plant's two
electricity-generating turbines had already shut down by noon.

This will drastically reduce output to 25 or 30 megawatts, down from the 65
megawatts the plant produces under normal conditions. By Sunday evening the
plant will shut down completely, leaving large swaths of the Gaza Strip in
darkness.

Omar Kittaneh, the head of the Palestine Energy Authority in Ramallah,
confirmed that by tonight, the one remaining operating turbine will be
powered down, and the Gaza power plant will no longer be generating any
electricity at all.

"We have asked the Israeli government to reverse its decision and to supply
fuel to operate the power plant", Dr. Kittaneh said. "We have talked to the
Israeli humanitarian coordination in their Ministry of Energy [National
Infrastructure]. We say this is totally Israel's responsibility, and that
reducing the fuel supplies until the plant had to shut down will affect not
only the electrical system but the water supply, and the entire
infrastructure in Gaza – everything."

After months of increasingly harsh sanctions, Israel imposed a total closure
on the Strip's border crossings, even preventing the delivery of
humanitarian aid. The Israeli government says the closure is punishment for
an ongoing barrage of Palestinian homemade projectiles fired from the Gaza
Strip.

"Famine"

180 fuel stations have shut down after Gaza residents to buy gas for
cooking.

A Palestinian economist Hasan Abu Ramadan said the current humanitarian
disaster in the Gaza Strip will be deepened by the blockade on fuel and food
supplies. He warned that Gaza Strip could go from a situation of deep
poverty to all out famine, disease, and malnutrition.

Abu Ramadan said that more than 80% of the Strip's 1.5 million residents
have been surviving with the help of food aid from international
organizations such as UNRWA for Palestinian refugees.

International condemnation

Most international actors in the region believe there already is a
humanitarian crisis in Gaza, including the UN's Emergency Relief
Coordinator, the Undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs John
Holmes, who said at a press conference at UNHQ in New York on Friday that
"This kind of action against the people in Gaza cannot be justified, even by
those rocket attacks".

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon expressed particular concern, in a
statement issued later on Friday through his spokesperson, about the
"decision by Israel to close the crossing points in between Gaza and Israel
used for the delivery of humanitarian assistance. Such action cuts off the
population from much-needed fuel supplies used to pump water and generate
electricity to homes and hospitals".

The UN Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights in the occupied territories, John Dugard, also issued a much sharper
statement on Friday, saying that Israel must have foreseen the loss of life
and injury to many nearby civilians when it targeted the Ministry of
Interior building in Gaza City.

This, and the killings of other Palestinians during the week, plus the
closures, "raise very serious questions about Israel's respect for
international law and its Commitment to the peace process", Dugard said. He
said it violates the strict prohibition on collective punishment contained
in the Fourth Geneva Convention, and one of the basic principles of
international humanitarian law: that military action must distinguish
between military targets and civilian targets.

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[Thermate911]

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[blackbear]

“Jews are effecting a holocaust in Gaza”

Khalid Amayreh in Israel-occupied East Jerusalem

Palestinians and human rights organizations operating in the Occupied Palestinian territories have accused Israel of effecting a real holocaust against Gaza Strip’s estimated 1.5 million inhabitants following a decision by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to completely sever fuel and electricity supplies to the coastal territory.

Israel, which in 2005 withdrew its occupation troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip, retained tight control of all Gaza’s border-crossings, reducing the small crowded territory to a huge detention camp.

Israel drastically stepped up its collective punishment of Gazans following Hamas’s takeover of the Strip in June 2006. The Israeli army, which exerts overwhelming influence on the Israeli political establishment, has also been carrying out nearly daily incursions and attacks inside Gaza resulting in the death and maiming of hundreds of Palestinians in recent weeks. It is widely believed that the vast bulk of the casualties are innocent civilians.

On Sunday, 20 January, more than 90% of Gazans spent the night in total darkness as Israel decided to halt vital fuel supplies, ostensibly to coerce the masses to rise up against Hamas which refuses to lend legitimacy to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.

The nearly total shutdown of power plants is already causing catastrophic effects and paralyzing vital services all over the Gaza Strip.

Hospital sources reported many deaths caused by the stoppage of electricity supplies.

“Electricity-powered medical machines such as incubators, dialysis and artificial breathing machines as well as many other vital life-saving medical equipment are no longer functioning. This means certain death for patients,” said Omar al-Shawwa, a paramedic at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Al-Shifa hospital is the largest hospital in Gaza and it has been operating on an emergency footing for two years as the delivery of vital medical supplies continued to be restricted by the Israel.

“It is true the Jews are not sending our children to the ovens, but they are killing us using other means,” said a visibly depressed al Shawwa. “Maybe the Europeans and the Americans won’t believe it, but the truth is that the Jews are effecting a real holocaust against our people.”

TV cameras showed hair-raising scenes of dying Palestinian children whose survival depends on certain electricity-powered medical machines. In northern Gaza, a paralyzed child was fluctuating between life and death as members of his family alternately sought to keep him breathing using a manually-operated rubber pump.

Meanwhile, Palestinian and UN officials in Gaza have warned of an impending disaster affecting all walks of life in Gaza.

Hasan Abu Ramadan, a Palestinian economist, said the present humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip would be deepened by the ongoing Israeli blockade on fuel and food supplies. He warned that the Gaza Strip could go from a situation of deep poverty to all out famine, disease and malnutrition.

Abu Ramadan noted that more than 80% of Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants were surviving with the help of food aid from international organizations such as URWA.

Another urgent warning was issued by John King, Director of UNRWA operations in Gaza.

Speaking during an impromptu press conference in Gaza Sunday night, King urged the international community to intervene immediately to prevent an imminent humanitarian disaster from occurring.

King pointed out that innocent civilians were paying a heavy price as a result of the current conflict, saying that bakeries were stopping making bread and that hospitals were cold as electricity generators stopped due to fuel shortages.

“Medicine is not available, paper is not available, cement to build graves is not available, even coffins for the dead are not available. There is also a serious food shortage, and the prices of available food are very high.”

King said that everyone in Gaza now had a problem that was exacerbating as time passed. He argued that it was shameful that some circles, an obvious allusion to Israel and its allies, were making arguments about the situation in Gaza.

“I can’t describe in words what is happening in Gaza.”

Meanwhile, extreme right-wing circles in Israel have called on the Israeli government to annihilate Gazans.

In Jewish settlements in and around the West Bank town of Hebron, Jewish settlers were seen dancing in an apparent expression of joy over the tragedy in Gaza, with some of them of them shouting in Hebrew “death to the Arabs” and “Arabs to the Gas chambers.”

Earlier, settlers wielding automatic rifles attacked Palestinians and vandalized their property in Hebron in full view of Israeli occupation soldiers who looked on passively. At least 11 Palestinians were reported injured, with most of them suffering cuts and bruises and other minor injuries.

Since the beginning of 2008, the Israeli occupation army murdered as many as 40 Palestinians and injured hundreds, with many suffering permanent disabilities.

The often pornographic bloodshed prompted UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, John Dugard, to castigate Israel’s indiscriminate killing of Palestinians.

Dugard said Israel ought to have foreseen the loss of life and injury to many civilians when it targeted the Ministry of Interior building in Gaza earlier a few days ago.

The wanton killings, said Dugard, “raises very serious questions about Israel’s respect for international law and its commitments to the peace process.”

He added that Israeli atrocities violated the strict prohibitions on collective punishment contained in the Fourth Geneva Convention.

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