 (Xinhua) -- An emergency meeting of the Arab League (AL) Council started here on Monday to discuss the continued Israeli raids and siege on the Gaza Strip, the Egyptian official MENA news agency reported.
| I'll betcha a dollar nobody suggested they stop rocketing Sderot. |
The meeting at the level of permanent delegates was presided by the Algerian ambassador to the AL Abdel Qader Hajjar and attended by AL Secretary General Amr Moussa, said the report. The meeting of the Cairo-based Arab bloc is set to hammer out a comprehensive Arab plan including political and diplomatic steps on facing the Israeli strikes on Gaza which have killed at least 37 Palestinians.
| These strikes, naturally, have nothing to do with the daily rain of Qassams. That's entirely a separate matter, not even open for discussion. |
Earlier on Monday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak urged Israel to stop its military operations and siege on Gaza which have caused not only Palestinian lives but also escalated humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territories.
| Has he mentioned the rockets to Hamas yet? Oh, that's right. It's not them. It's those Islamic Jihad and PRC guys. Nobody can control them. So really, Israel should just learn to live with the occasional bit of high explosive wafting form Gaza. You know what those Arabs are like. |
The main power station that supplies Gaza electricity completely stopped on Sunday night due to fuel shortage.
| Anybody got a cardiac splint? I think my heart just broke. |
Israel on Thursday decided to tightened a closure that has been imposed on Gaza since mid June last year, when Hamas took control of the coastal strip. All crossings leading to Gaza have been closed down. Since Thursday, Israel has been barring fuels and basic food products from reaching the coast strip, in retaliation to ongoing makeshift rocket attacks carried out by Palestinian militants from Gaza against Israel. |