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Darkness falls on Gaza
The lights went out on the Gaza Strip last night when the only electricity plant in the seaside territory closed down after Israel severed fuel supplies.
| Life is tough. It's tougher when you're stoopid. Being vicious doesn't seem to alleviate it. |
As the power failed, 1,000 men, women and children held a candlelit procession in Gaza City to protest at the breakdown of their basic services.
| If I was the Israeli PM, which I'm not, to the relief of us all, I'd start my response with "Eat me!" and go downhill from there. |
Some carried posters calling on the international community to come to their aid, others condemned the state of siege that they are living under. I appeal to Egypt to break the siege because our children and sick people are dying, Umm Raed, a 52-year-old housewife, said.
| I feel approximately the same amount of sympathy Gazans feel for the inhabitants of Sderot. |
Egypt has a border with Gaza, but has mainly shown solidarity with Israel in enforcing an embargo on the Hamas-run territory.
| Could be that even the Egyptians realize that if somebody's raining rockets on your territory every day, they're telling you in their own special way that they don't need any assistance from you. |
As mobile phone repeaters ran out of power, mobile phones started to lose reception, plunging many areas into silence as well as blackness.
The heart [urp!] burns bleeds. |
Unable to end the ceaseless volleys of rockets fired by Gaza hardliners into its southern towns and farms, Israel cut off diesel supplies to the Strip, where 1.5 million Palestinians live, in an attempt to force its Islamist rulers to end the attacks.
| It's more fun wearing ski masks and shooting rockets in the general direction of civilian areas than it is to build a functioning society. |
Posted by: Fred 2008-01-21 |
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