Civilians in Gaza 'feel alone in this world'

[katty]

more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28639458/

By Kari Huus
Reporter

msnbc.com
updated 1 hour, 52 minutes ago

Editor's note: With Israel preventing foreign-based journalists from reporting first-hand on its military incursion in Gaza, accounts of the circumstances of those under siege are difficult to come by. On Tuesday — in a second segment on life in the embattled area — msnbc.com interviewed two Palestinians in Gaza by phone in interviews arranged by the international charity Mercy Corps.

Palestinian civilians caught in the middle of an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip are gathering in apartment buildings and homes not yet hit by the fighting, preferring crowded refuge to the greater danger in other parts of the embattled territory, two Palestinians told msnbc.com on Tuesday.

Nasser Barakat, a 21-year-old Palestinian student, said by telephone from Gaza City that conditions have deteriorated in the last week. As the Israeli troops moved through suburban neighborhoods trying to root out Hamas fighters and intensified attacks in the coastal areas, his aunt’s home in central Gaza City has taken on more friends and relatives forced to flee their homes, he said.

[polly7]

1. They pretty much are alone.

The first neighbouring Arab nation to help them militarilly will be bombed (I think that's the hope, anyway), the UN has no intention of sticking to anything it says because it hasn't got the guts, and those who can do something won't, because they lose nothing by ignoring the suffering. Imo.

[katty]

3. right-they are alone and trapped

[midnight]

2. This war and all wars need to end NOW!!!!!!

These people are not collatoral damage. They deserve much more protection from the world.

[katty]

5. Bucky Fuller said...

Bucky Fuller quote: "Either war is obsolete or men are."

[awoke_in_2003]

4. If only Egypt...

would set up some temporary camps to help these people, and let the press have access to them. I don't see Israel going into Egypt. They aren't that stupid, are they?

[Hatalles]

6. k&r