“Israel’s siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both sides had violated the agreement before, this incursion was on a different scale. Hamas responded by firing rockets into Israel and the violence has not abated since then. Israel’s siege has two fundamental goals. One is to ensure that the Palestinians there are seen merely as a humanitarian problem, beggars who have no political identity and therefore can have no political claims. The second is to foist Gaza onto Egypt.”
— Sara Roy, at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and author of Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.
Also:
- Map: The crisis in Gaza
- Hamas leader: Revenge for Israel’s Gaza assault will be murder of Jewish children across the world
- Shimon Peres Rejects Calls for Cease-Fire
- Israeli forces enter Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza
- Doctors stuck at bottleneck on Gaza border
- Gaza Crisis: Doctors Stuck At Egypt-Gaza Border
- The Reality Of War, Ctd.
