After the Gaza War that ended at the start of last year, the decision was made to place a blockade around Gaza. The blockade was intended to ensure that supplies that could be dangerous to Israel did not reach Gaza.
The truth is that Gaza put themselves into the position that the blockade was required. Hamas had been firing numerous rockets indiscriminately into Israel meant to kill randomly and cause as much damage as possible. Israel needed to protect its people and therefore responded. The world claimed that the response was drastic: 1,400 palestinian deaths and only 13 Israeli deaths? A problem that must be called disproportional force. Plus, of those 1,400 Palestinians several hundred were innocent civilians.
But it is the Terrorist organization of Hamas that is responsible for the deaths of its people. To launch rockets from nursery schools and hospitals -- the use of those you are responsible for as your own shields!
I hear you as you ask me whether or not Israel should have fired missiles with the knowledge that there were innocents there. The answer is an obvious no. But it was perhaps the lesser of two evils. Had they not fired, Hamas's rockets would have continued to fire into Israel hitting its own hospitals and playschools and killing its own civilians! A country has a responsibility to its civilians first and foremost.
The terrorist organization of Hamas as voted in by the people of Gaza was killed so many innocents of the people of Gaza. Had they done their duty as a nation and protected their citizens; had they even not done their duty as a nation but fired their rockets from locations a little away from their citizens, they would not have pressed the trigger on Israel's weaponry to murder their own.
The border barricade is not there to hurt the people of Gaza; it is there to protect them! It is there to protect them from the terrorists of Hamas who would fire rockets into Israel and force Israel to fire back, killing more of there own.
I send out my plea to all of you Human Rights Activists -- The first right is the right to live. If you want to deny that to the civilians of Gaza, then continue to try to break the barricade. If you really care about the Palestinians, support the barricade and send your supplies through Israel. Work in cooperation to ensure that no more innocent blood of Israelis and Palestinians is shed.
Let the blockade remain.
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