530 Gaza Goes Dark
Gaza’s main power plant completely shut down on Sunday. Most of Gaza’s 1.5 million people depend on aid. Once again, they’re now cut off from light and water, too.
Al-Arabiya: “Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the crossings into Gaza closed late Thursday, saying the move was aimed at pressuring militants inside to stop firing rockets and mortars into Israel and that it would be reassessed.”
The BBC:
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insists he will not allow Gaza to suffer a humanitarian crisis but equally will not allow the lives of its 1.5m inhabitants to be “pleasant and comfortable” […] “As far as I’m concerned, all the residents of Gaza can walk and have no fuel for their cars, because they have a murderous terrorist regime that doesn’t allow people in the south of Israel to live in peace,” he said.
Collectively punishing and demoralizing a population into exhausted surrender or death is one way to establish peace. But the ministers would have to starve and exhaust the population to death for the policy to work in the long term. If it is not fully implemented, it will only prompt more attacks. Unless they are willing to carry this policy out to its conclusion, to commit genocide, the ministers should desist.
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