{"id":1860,"date":"2010-06-14T01:42:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T08:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2010-06-14T01:42:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T08:42:16","slug":"red-cross-blames-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/red-cross-blames-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross Blames Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The blockade of Gaza violates international law.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gazablockade.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"gaza-blockade\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gaza-blockade\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gazablockade_thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a> Israel&#8217;s blockade of <strong>Gaza is a clear violation of international humanitarian law<\/strong>, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the ICRC describes the situation in Gaza as dire, saying <strong>the only sustainable solution is a lifting of the blockade<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>It says Israel is punishing the whole civilian population of Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>It also urges Hamas movement to allow ICRC delegates to visit a detained Israel soldier Gilad Shalit. <\/p>\n<h5>Key message <\/h5>\n<p>The ICRC, a <strong>traditionally neutral organisation<\/strong>, paints a bleak picture of conditions in Gaza: hospitals short of equipment, power cuts lasting hours each day, drinking water unfit for consumption. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The whole of Gaza&#8217;s civilian population is being punished for acts for which they bear no responsibility. The closure therefore constitutes a collective punishment imposed in clear violation of Israel&#8217;s obligations under international humanitarian law,&quot; the agency said in the statement\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/10306193.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">One can hardly call the ICRC a biased group.&#160; Plus, the truth of their claim is self evident.&#160; Until Israel abandons this criminal policy, the US must suspend all military aid to Israel.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blockade of Gaza violates international law. Israel&#8217;s blockade of Gaza is a clear violation of international humanitarian law, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. In a statement, the ICRC describes the situation in Gaza as dire, saying the only sustainable solution is a lifting of the blockade. It says Israel <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/red-cross-blames-israel\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}