Egypt police to shoot Gazans at Rafah
The Egyptian security forces ordered to mind the Rafah border crossing Cairo orders a security cordon at the Rafah border crossing to open fire at the Palestinians fleeing to Egypt from Israeli raids on Gaza.
The task force has been deployed to take a stance against the Gazans seeking refuge in Sinai amid continues Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, Debka reported on Friday.
This is while an increased number of Palestinians are on their way to the border crossing following reports that Tel Aviv is scheduling artillery bombardment.
The blighted residents of the coastal sliver have sustained seven days of Israel's unabated incursion which have so far killed 430 Palestinians injuring nearly 2,250 others. The aggression started last Saturday with nearly 50 coordinated onslaughts.
Meanwhile, security guards have suppressed and dispersed thousands of Egyptian protesters, who called on the country's authorities to reconsider their refusal to open the crossing point.
On Tuesday, the Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said that Cairo's cooperation was of utmost importance in defusing the crisis.
"If you do not open the Rafah border crossing, if you do not come to the rescue of your brothers in Gaza, then you have a hand in the siege and the killing and in causing the Palestinian tragedy," he said.
Thousands of demonstrators in Morocco, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Indian Kashmir, Jordan, Iran, Turkey, Australia, Vatican and the West Bank poured to streets on Friday to condemn the Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:40:16 GMT
Dear Mohsen, you and your brothers are blind people in the dark. What do you know about light of democracy and how people live in normal society without hatred for people with different views and religion? you and your "brothers" have no respect for human life, you are killing each other and even members of your own families if they disobey your "rules" and you talking about free and generous people of Israel - even now your palestinian "brothers" get treatment in Israelis hospitals. Mohsen Khaloudi
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:33:53 GMT
I`d like to say we Iranians always stand by our Palesinian brothers and sisters and won`t recognize a despotic regime called Israel . Wajahat Dewani
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:58:34 GMT
Dear fellow palestinian brothers, we kashmiris are with u always and we will be with u always... Name Email Address Enter the code shown Comments I agree with your terms of use
Amidst ongoing Israeli bombings of Gaza, with the death toll of the bombardments up to 537 with another  2,500  people wounded,  UN food agencies again warned that the people of Gaza are facing a heavy humanitarian crisis.

"The current situation in Gaza is appalling, and many basic food items are no longer available on the market," Said Christine van Nieuwenhuyse, the World Food Program's (WFP) representative in the Palestinian territory, in a statement that was released on Friday. "This area ... is one of the poorest and most heavily affected by the recent conflict," she added.


WFP officials said that they have begun to give bread to 15,000 new recipients, a number which added to the already large group of people that had been lining up for bread after two years of Israeli blockades of Gaza, the most recent of which began in early November.  The blockades, surely a catalyst for violent Hamas attacks, have been condemned by Human Rights Watch as a "violation of international humanitarian law." 

Struggling Gazan hospitals say that they are completely out of even the most basic medical supplies and have little or no capacity to deal with further casualties.  In addition, Israeli ground forces entered Gaza on Saturday causing an immediate spike in casualties and even attacks on the hospitals and paramedics themselves.

As sewage runs through the streets, many Gazans are trying to flee the area by storming the border with Egypt, a move which Egyptian police blocked on Sunday and are planning to do so again today as Egyptian leaders ordered their policemen to open fire on Gazans trying to flee into Egypt. 

Hasan Khalaf, Gaza's assistant deputy health minister, described the ongoing assault on Gaza as "an Israeli massacre".

"There is no comparison between what we have and what Israel are doing to us. The international community are standing unable to help us, and yet we know they have been helping Israel for tens of years."