The Face of Gaza

POLITICS. .

Palestinian children in Gaza. These are the children that Israel wants us to believe are terrorists. These are the faces that Israel killed over 400 last December/January.

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Palestinian children pose for a picture near a building destroyed during Israel's massive 22-day assault in the Gaza Strip last December-January on July 15, 2009 in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. Israeli soldiers in the Gaza war were told to shoot first and worry about the consequences later, and used Palestinian civilians as human shields, an activist group's report said on July 15, 2009. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

Since 2006, 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza have been subject to an international blockade. Since 2007, such collective punishment has been tightened to allow only a drip-supply of food into the occupied territory.

80% of Palestinians in Gaza are dependent on the United Nations for food. Hundreds of thousands of children are anemic. Since Israel’s most recent war in December/January - which killed over 900 Palestinian civilians including over 400 children - thousands of Palestinians remain homeless [4,100 homes destroyed and over 15,000 damaged] living in tents like their grandparents did when Israeli expelled them from their homes in 1948 Palestine. 90% of Palestinians suffer power cuts. 32,000 have no running water. 100,000 get water once in every two or three days. This is what the Palestinians are suffering from.

The United Nations worries about a spread of infectious disease. A majority of Palestinian children are malnourished and many are anemic. The growth of many Palestinian children is stunned.

This is Israel. This is Zionism. Never forget. Never forgive.

"All that you have done to your people is registered in notebooks" - Palestinian poet.

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