Much has been made of israel’s disproportionate response to a few “glorified skyrockets. The Israeli Ministry of Defense put out a press release outling some of Israel’s response.
- 12 Palestinians entered Israel for medical treatment in Israeli hospitals.
- Two of those evacuated were children injured during the military activates, the remaining are chronically sick people, and their escorts, that entered Israel for treatment that is not available within the Gaza Strip.
- despite ongoing rocket fire approximately 2500 tons of humanitarian aid, medical supplies and medication were conveyed through Kerem Shalom cargo terminal.
- Ninety three trucks, withThe World Food Programme has informed Israel that they will not be resuming shipment of food commodities in to Gaza due to the fact that their warehouses are at full capacity and will last for approximately two weeks.
- Since the beginning of operation “Cast Lead” some 6500 tons of aid have been transferred at the request of the international organizations, the Palestinian Authority and various governments.
There doesn’t appear to be any indication yet that any aid packages have been strapped onto the 6300 (and counting) missiles those humanitarians from Hamas have fired into Israel since 2005. The only things Hamas are sending to Israel are suicide bombers, rockets and mortars.
It seems to me this Israeli aid is very disproportionate. We’ll be back to let you know if the boys at Tumeke think it should stop until Hamas catches up.
