In Gaza offensive, Israel hits Western aid projects

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"Beit Hanoun's veteran bridge builder shrugged off his latest misfortune: the Israelis destroyed the main span into town three years ago. The European Union rebuilt it. And overnight the Israelis destroyed it again.

"I'm sad but what can I do," said Wagih Elbity, the city's 59-year-old civil engineer, after an air strike jolted him out of bed on Tuesday morning and turned another of his beloved concrete bridges into a steaming mound of rubble and sewage.

Elbity said Beit Hanoun, a northern Gaza town of 20,000, would appeal again to the EU for funds to rebuild. But with the Hamas-led Palestinian government facing a Western aid boycott, he said: "This time, they cannot give us any money."

Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip to free an abducted soldier and halt rocket attacks has killed more than 50 Palestinians, most of them militants.

The air and ground offensive has also devastated Gaza's infrastructure, compounding Palestinian hardships and upsetting international donors who have poured millions of dollars into rebuilding it after earlier Israeli offensives."


http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1130588.htm

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1. Well, heck now they can't give him back.

That would send the message that this sort of bombing of infrastructure works.
:sarcasm:
(See, I remembered this time.)