Gaza death toll rises as Israel hits a disability shelter

[The Dharma Bum]

Give them a bunch of money and move them to Jordan?

Don't you think they may use the money to fund HAMAS right next door?

they are better off in Detroit with new lives

[Philly]

[The Dharma Bum]

oh so now it's HAMAS we are concerned with? I thought it was the innocent women and children that we were supposedly concerned about.

I suppose they will get their way and fight it out

[Spider]

[Spider]

[Homer]

[Homer]

The restrictions documented below are from the West Bank, who despite not firing rockets or carrying out raids, still get treated like shit by the Israelis:

"Ill and wounded Palestinians who require acute medical care are placed at risk by Israeli restrictions on movement. The residents of villages and outlying regions require permits to travel to hospitals located in central regions. Obtaining the permits is difficult, requiring medical documents testifying to the illness as well as confirmation that the hospital is the only facility where the treatment is available and the time and date of the appointment.

According to B'Tselem, even if they have a valid permit, sick Palestinians must travel on long, winding, unmaintained roads and are often delayed for long periods at checkpoints. If they require medical care at night they must wait until checkpoints open during the day. Some Palestinian communities are prevented from using their cars or ambulances so that the sick must travel to the hospitals by foot. In 2007, B'Tselem documented five cases in which ill or wounded Palestinians died after being delayed at a checkpoint Palestinian hospitals in the West Bank have difficulty functioning due to the delays on the arrival of doctors and staff as a result of the movement restrictions. This has prevented the development of medical expertise in the Palestinian health system as staff are prevented from acquiring in-service training and students are preventing from going to university.

Obtaining medical treatment is particularly problematic for pregnant Palestinian women about to give birth, since the delivery date is largely unpredictable yet the permits given are only valid for one or two days, as is the case for most sick persons. The women must therefore constantly renew their permits, and as a consequence, in some instances, mothers have entered labor and given birth at checkpoints because they did not have up-to-date permits. In 2007, 5 such births occurred at Israeli checkpoints. Between the years 2000 and 2006, more than 68 Palestinian women gave birth at Israeli checkpoints, according to statistics from the Palestinian health ministry. Of these, 35 women miscarried, and five died in childbirth."

The idea that if Hamas stopped firing rockets, the Gazans would have a decent and peaceful life and the ISraelis would leave them alone, is extremely dubious given Israels treatment of West Bank Palestinians.

[John Galt]

tthat they have to go through checkpoints to enter israeli controlled areas is understandable (although the amount of checkpoints has been seriously reduced in the last decade) i mean at any moment one of them could blow up literally. 2012 was the first year no israeli was killed by west bank terrorists in decades. and by removing the head of west bank hamas immediately at the start of this operation, they've been able to ignore the west bank as the west bank has not fired at them... so the israelis haven't had need to take out missile launching sites unlike gaza. gaza would have to have years of quiet before it saw a decent life, okay, but it would be a peaceful one if they stopped firing rockets.

[Saz]

Looks like Israel might have the balls to finish the job here

[The dane]