Palestine Solidarity Project writes:
For the past three hours the Israeli Military has been conducting a massive attack on the Gaza Strip. Beginning without warning, an unprecedented series of attacks on police stations throughout the entire strip have left at least 140 dead and more than 200 wounded, according to emergency health officials.
This attack comes after more than a year of strangulating sanctions on the Strip, which has left hospitals without basic materials or medicines to treat the mass-casualties.
THESE ARE ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS. Over 50 of the dead were reportedly killed when the Gaza security headquarters in Gaza City was hit with a missile. Images coming out of Gaza City and other areas show dozens of men in police uniforms, dead or horribly injured, lying in the street as other civilians rush to bring the wounded to local hospitals.
Egypt has finally opened the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt to receive patients for treatment inside Egypt. Israel has said this is “just the beginning”.
Israel is targeting the security apparatus of the Gaza Strip, which has been ruled by Hamas who were democratically elected to power by the Palestinian people. Israel has been threatening a massive strike on Gaza after a new ceasefire could not be negotiated and the previous 6-month ceasefire between Hamas and Israel expired last week. The previous ceasefire was negotiated on the basis that Israel would open the crossings into Gaza, allowing desperately-needed food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs in. Israel never kept up their end of the agreement, keeping the crossings closed except for a few, token openings letting in less than 25% of the needed supplies.
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