Meanwhile the forgotten, forsaken Gaza is dying

 

 

'There are 1.5 million Palestinians imprisoned in the most heavily populated area in the world. Israel has stopped all trade. It has even forbidden fishermen to go far from the shore so they wade into the surf to try vainly to catch fish with hand-thrown nets.

 

Many people are being killed by Israeli incursions that occur everyday by land and air. A total of 262 people have been killed and 1,200 wounded, of whom 60 had arms or legs amputated, since June 25, says Dr Juma Al Saqa, the director of the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City which is fast running out of medicine. Of these, 64 were children and 26 women.'

 

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