I was utterly appalled yesterday to read a column that I cannot locate this morning in which the author wrote about how sick and tired he was of all the attention given to the suffering people of Gaza. His point: “They are getting what they deserve for voting for Hamas.” What a heartless person this poor “sick and tired” man was.
With nearly seven hundred dead and 2500 seriously wounded the slaughter continues. For the mindless extremism of Hamas militants who decided to launch thier useless rockets into Israel, now a whole people, civilians, women, and children (100 dead so far) suffer the price. Of course there was frustration with all Gazans. The border into Gaza has been under Israeli blockade for nearly two years and, since November, even humanitarian workers with needed medicinal suppiles and food have been denied entry. Gaza has been a virtual prison for a million and a half people who live under an oppressive occupation. I am not defending Moslem terrorists, God forbid, but I am defending the poor ordinary people of Palestine. The 2500 severely wounded, and the more to come, will die because hospitals are all full and running out of even basic things like bandages. Doctors cannot leave their own families alone during this onslaught. Without generators there is no power; Israel has shut it off or bombed the grids. There is no water, because pumps run on electricity. People are still buried in rubble and no one can reach them. Israeli soldiers make it difficult to impossible for Gazans to go out and tend to their own wounded. In the words of a Palestinian priest: “Gaza is destroyed. It is becoming a cemetery.” CNS reports.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, president of Caritas Internationalis, called for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip to allow the wounded and their physicians to reach the region’s hospitals.
“Caritas calls for action from the United States, the European Union and the international community to press for an immediate cease-fire to enable the sick and wounded to be treated,” said the cardinal, the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, in a statement Jan. 5. Full article is here.
