Israel to worsen an already critical human rights disaster in Gaza

Municipality of Gaza

following the hamas victory in the january 2006 election in palestine, the strategy of israel, supported by the "quartet" - US, EU, Russia and the UN - has been to punish the ordinary people of palestine so severely that they would move to overthrow their government... when fatah leader mahmoud abbas dismissed the hamas-led government in june and began ruling by decree, hamas seized control of gaza, leaving fatah in control of the west bank... the israeli "punishment" strategy toward gaza continued and is now being ratcheted up... it's criminal and nobody is moving to stop it...

Israeli military experts have formulated a plan to gradually cut off electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip in response to ongoing rocket fire from the Palestinian area, officials said Wednesday.

The plan, formulated by a senior team lead by Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai, is expected to be approved by Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday, the officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. It was not immediately clear when the decision would take effect.

"It's clear that we have to cut off ... the supply of electricity and the supply of fuel," Vilnai told Army Radio. "We will dramatically reduce the flow of electricity from Israel over several weeks."

Israel's government last month declared the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip a "hostile territory," clearing the way for Israel to impose sanctions against the territory. The cutoff in power is part of Israel's hardening stance toward Hamas, which violently seized control of Gaza in June.

Israel has severely restricted the flow of cargo and people through Gaza's borders since the takeover by Hamas, which Israel, the U.S. and the European Union consider to be a terrorist group.

the strategy of punishing the people is clearly articulated by noam chomsky...

There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with Europe tagging along, moved to punish the Palestinian people, and punish them harshly, because they voted the wrong way in a free election. That's accepted here in the West as perfectly normal. That illustrates the deep hatred and contempt for democracy among western elites, so deep-seated they can't even perceive it when it's in front of their eyes. You punish people severely if they vote the wrong way in a free election.

cutting off electricity and fuel will only exacerbate the already serious situation, a situation that was already critical as of last december...

89 percent of the population is poverty-stricken, living on less than $2 a day. Over 60 percent are unemployed, and since the election of the Hamas government in January, international aid has dried up. It had been used to pay the salaries of public officials. Now, even those who have jobs have been thrown into poverty, meaning that over 860,000 people in the Gaza Strip are now living on food parcels distributed by the UNRWA. Over half of the population.

keep in mind, the number one u.s. client state relationship is with the israeli goverment...

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