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Civilians Struggle In Gaza

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Leah Hazard
Topics: Conflict and War, Culture, Humanitarian Aid, Justice
Countries: Israel, Palestine

Given the frequently gloomy headlines regarding the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, many may not be surprised to hear of the latest violence in the region. But NPR reports the current conflict is the heaviest fighting the Gaza Strip has seen since the 1967 Six Day War — and some of the hardest hit seem to be Palestinian civilians.

Following the start of an Israeli ground invasion, the latest reports from the Washington Post indicate that 550 Palestinians have been killed and 2,500 injured — and according to Palestinian health officials, between 24 and 30 percent of those are women and children. Currently the Israeli government has closed Gaza's borders to everything except a small trickle of humanitarian aid, insufficient to meet the needs on the ground.

Mercy Corps is calling for immediate humanitarian access to Gaza to deliver food and other essential supplies. You can sign the petition by clicking here. This petition urges the U.S. government to push for aid to be allowed in now.

You can also help get critical humanitarian items needed once the border is open by donating to Mercy Corps' Gaza Crisis Fund. Mercy Corps has a four-ton shipment of food that's scheduled to enter Gaza tomorrow, and they're deploying additional aid workers to Jerusalem and Egypt to prepare to do more. Check out how Gazan youth involved with Mercy Corps are handling the crisis and keep up-to-date on Mercy Corps' response to the crisis.

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Comments

Tue, 01/06/2009 - 18:19 — Christopher (not verified)

If I win your comment

If I win your comment contest, I'm definitely putting the $25 in the Mercy Corps' Gaza Crisis Fund.

'Nuff said.

Sat, 01/10/2009 - 04:47 — mike (not verified) in uk

gaza

Due to what i see happening in gaza I have come to realize Israel doesn’t care about anybody else they are too selfish for life and murderers.

According to what is happening what Hitler did to them is more likely to happen again
In future because they breading future hitlers with murderers ways and think that they
Are special the whole is watching there evil action and it tune on them oneday.

Sat, 01/10/2009 - 05:25 — mirit (not verified) in israel

All the world is talking of

All the world is talking of how we are like Hitler‼ you don’t live here so you don’t know what we suffer ever since we have our country‼
Every day people die if it is on the bus to school or on their way to work.
Its very easy for all the world to talk when they haven’t lost their children or parents in one grad or kasam‼ Come to Israel and see how many people are dying. We are not like the Palestinian that show pictures of dead children‼ We have honor for the dead-do you think that were not losing children in our side??? Well, we are‼ If all of you lived in our reality you'd understand the need to survive in front of those Murderers‼ in cold blade Now for the first time we are trying to defend ourselves like every country in our situation would do! All of you maybe don’t know that for all those year, every day, they shutting grads and kasamim to our home while we give them water, electricity and all the supply they need, and we sit quiet while they were killing our children and destroy our homes‼! Who are you to judge us??? Did you ever been in our place??? No‼ so set quit while we are doing a job for all the world and kill all the hamas‼! Sign the youtube and watch this video – this is our side, I think for you to judge us you all need first to see our side too…These video is very hard to watch and we never present this on the media like the Palastinian because we are human‼!

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=5zTfRrNUSwM

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=mGgJuyTl5H4

Thu, 01/15/2009 - 07:56 — Anonymous (not verified) in florida, USA

Israel, is wrong in what it

Israel, is wrong in what it has always done to the Muslin and then you expect the Muslin world to like you. All the Palestinian, pleople see is that everytime it is a war you guys think you can go into someone's else country and bomb that country. What is that woman talking about giving water, food, and electricity, you guys are the ones that destroy those people and their country, so deal with it. America and Israel think they can do as they please's and then the whole world should like them. Stupid people.

Sun, 02/08/2009 - 09:10 — NOUR (not verified) in ZAHLE

WE ARE TIRED FROM ALL THE

WE ARE TIRED FROM ALL THE WARS

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