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I went to listen to the speakers outside the Israeli Embassy, London at the end of the protest march yesterday. 25,000 people marched due to the sorrow and outrage felt after the murder of nine innocent people abroad the Flotilla in International waters (who were bringing aid to Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip) by Israeli officers. Activists want the UK government to cull all trade agreements with Israel to show the distain felt by the international community and the severity of what they have done; a total breach of human rights laws: completely unnecessary killings.
The issues between the Israeli and Palestinian people are terribly old and clotted, but what's going on for civilians in the Gaza Strip (abject poverty) is sickening and needs to be stopped, and the murder of nine people who were trying to bring them necessities is miserable and just shows how desperate this situation is. Let us hope that the Martyr’s abroad the Flotilla did not die in vain.
Wednesday, June 2
MAP OF THE GAZA STRIP, 1991
Today more than 1.4 million Palestinian men, women, and children are trapped in the Gaza Strip. Their daily lives - in an area of land just 40 km long and 9.5 km wide - are marked by power shortages, little or no running water of poor quality and deteriorating health care. Mass unemployment, extreme poverty, and food insecurity both exacerbate and are deepened by the impact of the Israeli blockage, which was brought into force in 2007.
The six controlled crossings, five controlled by Israeli authorities and one by the Egyption authorities are kept closed and prevent the movement of Palestinians into and out of Gaza in all but a handful of exceptional humanitarian cases.
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