Israel 'attacks' Gaza aid fleet

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Hell no. The Kurds are going to benefit from development more than any other group in Iraq and will probably surpass what the other tribes had during Iraqs peak.
But what will truly shape their future is the source of that investment whoever that may be.
 

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Who do they want to belong to? It doesn't seem like Turkey is interested in taking up the 'good neighbor again'. The US is there to unite the country in peace and brotherhood, can't do that if everybody wants to scatter off in every damn direction.

There will peace in that whole country even if everybody has to die to achieve it.
You ask who do they want to belong to? They want to belong to themselves. And the last time I checked, The USA isn't involved in the affairs of Turkey. Turkey is doing it's own thing well enough on it's own. They don't want the Kurds to separate - let alone be an autonomous region - and they're making damned sure that the Kurds stay in their place. which really is ironic considering their righteous indignation regarding Israel.
 

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I don't know about that, but I do know that Sadaam Husein treated the Kurds worse than what he would scrape of the bottom of his shoe. He had no problem poisoning a whole town - the helpless, the old, women, babies, old people included - just because they were Kurdish. Tell me, should they apologize for benefiting from his downfall?
Planting bombs on Turkish Naval Installations is not something you should be doing when Turkey is the stronger. Why is the US and Israel supporting attacks against NATO, a security member at that. That can be mistaken taken as thumbing their nose at them.

Rumor has it that the captured Mooshead agent is asking Turkey for political asylum.
 
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You ask who do they want to belong to? They want to belong to themselves. And the last time I checked, The USA isn't involved in the affairs of Turkey. Turkey is doing it's own thing well enough on it's own. They don't want the Kurds to separate - let alone be an autonomous region - and they're making damned sure that the Kurds stay in their place. which really is ironic considering their righteous indignation regarding Israel.
In the end though pretty much every society has another that they like to kick ariound and give the short end of the stick.
 

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They want to belong to themselves.
Look around the area, nobody is going to be 'alone'.

The point you are missing is that Israel is training them to be terrorists (with American approval)and go into Iran and blow up things that belong to that Government, now against Turkey.
 

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Hell no. The Kurds are going to benefit from development more than any other group in Iraq and will probably surpass what the other tribes had during Iraqs peak.
But what will truly shape their future is the source of that investment whoever that may be.
Thanks. Based on whose promises, the same ones that told their troops about a parade with flowers?

Just when was Iraq's hayday? Only Kuwait and Saudi were allowed to be showpieces for the world, for the rest of the people they got treated just like Iran between '53 and '79. Remember all the pretty words we used to get the Indians to surrender. Word about us has gotten out in the last 100 years.
 

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DON"T USE THE "I" WORD YOU WILL GET THE THREAD SHUT DOWN

or is that your intent? The ROLF was at you for refusing to read up on your heros.
" what purpose is there to insist that everyone else has done the same as <insert a people's name here besides Israelis>"
Nevermind. I don't think you have the capacity to understand what I meant. Either way, there was no question there.
 

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Here's a fact for you. You have just admitted to the Israeli propaganda machine.
Here's one for you, I never said there wasn't one.

Who's got the biggest most well oiled and perhaps the most long lived such construction the world has ever seen? And what is the likelyhood that the tiny Palestinian construct can compete on anything approaching an even footing?
In PR? They are every bit as strong as Israel, if not stronger. Greta Berlin, one of the organizers of the Flotilla, has a higher education in PR, literally.
You have been stuffed by the best spin machine that ever existed and this is certainly verified by your repeated insistence that you have given fair ear to both sides in equal measure, something patently impossible from the beginning.
Of course I must be getting "stuffed" by someone, if I think I have been looking at both sides fairly. This coming from someone that sees a boogiejoo, behind every corner of the globe, not only makes me laugh, it makes me actually laugh out loud.

Your posts are refuted around the entire world on an hourly basis by irrefutable facts, you don't have a legal or moral foot to stand on.
You keep saying that, but have never offered a shred of actual fact. Odd that is.

You have tied your little boat to the zionist monolith and you deserve to sink with it.
Ahhh yes, I defend what needs to be defended, condemn what needs to be condemned, therefore I am a Zionist and must die along side them.

Yes they were aid ships weren't they, and anyone who says differently is mistaken at the very best or invested heavily at the very worst.
Greta Berlin, Flotilla organizer...

"The only illegal presence in the area is Israel... This mission is not about delivering humanitarian supplies, it's about breaking Israel's siege..." (May 27, AFP)

Now, you can either join us in reality, or keep exposing yourself as ideologue, who will, despite overwhelming evidence, desperately splash around the shallow end in a panic.

We all have been taught that two wrongs do not ever make a right but in this thread we read repeatedly that it does or it might, when all of human history dictates that it won't.
So why do you believe that two wrongs will make a right then?
When we read that we should be asking ourselves, what purpose is there to attempt to hide todays injustice behind ancient historical crimes and what purpose is there to insist like a child that everyone else has done the same as Israel as if that would be an excuse for their crimes when it clearly is not.
That's not what I have said. But I know for a fact that is exactly what you think I have said here, and is exactly what you want to believe I have said here. For the simple fact you are not capable of compromise. There is but one solution for you, as you have expressed on more then one occasion. A solution that is not only abhorrent, but repulsive and as ignorant as anything you have railed against Israel for.

In this thread we are considering the actions against a humanitarian effort trying to relieve civilians in tire need of ordinary means of sustinance ended by gross overt violence by Israel and nothing else.
Yet, not only does Palestine Today, a Palestinian news agency. But Greta Berlin, a Flotilla organizer, state something completely different.

Why is fact from the very people involved so easy for you to dismiss?

We know injustice has been done to Jews variously throughout much of known history, that is not a point of disagreement here and the context of those injustices can be discussed in some other thread or this one if the forum is agreeable.
Actually, the only person that keeps bringing up Jewish history and biblical BS, is mhz.
Even if that were to occur it could not possibly exonerate Israels present actions, unless it were to be granted special or chosen status by some independent unseen potentate, which it has plainly not got.
So who gave special and chosen status to all the Arabs DB? You seem to have exhonerated them of any wrong doing, full stop.

Then they would argue that numbers lie. Historically I cannot think of one nation that has not showed the Jews hospitality and taken them in at times of need.
Then by all means, please post these "times", that Jews were taken in. And by whom.

Certainly many have had second thoughts and expelled them, those expulsions are well researched and documented in many cases with remarkable similarities that may or may not be coincidental.
A little revisionist history eh, lol.

Again another thread may be required to discuss this aspect of Jewish history if there is an interest.
The only interest you've ever had was in genocide, when I have posted no less then two threads involving the history of Jews and Israel.

Personnaly, being sick to death of the subject along with most of the planet, why bother, the story is old and it has never gotten better with telling, and neither has it changed, except in volumn, for thousands of years.
Because those who ignore history, are bound to repeat it. That aptly applies to people who willfully rewrite it as well.

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When we read that we should be asking ourselves, what purpose is there to attempt to hide todays injustice behind ancient historical crimes and what purpose is there to insist like a child that everyone else has done the same as <insert a people's name here besides Israelis> as if that would be an excuse for their crimes when it clearly is not....except for the nitpicking amongst the posters against each other. We know injustice has been done to non-Jews and Israelis variously throughout much of known history, that is not a point of disagreement here and the context of those injustices can be discussed in some other thread or this one if the forum is agreeable. Even if that were to occur it could not possibly exonerate non-Israelis present actions, unless it were to be granted special or chosen status by some independent unseen potentate, which it has plainly not got.
Well said...

Would you like the rest?
Not really, I'm well aware of the bulk of that, which is why I have written such pieces as http://forums.canadiancontent.net/history/50170-hunt-oil-manifest-destiny-new.html . I know it's hard to believe, but you, me, DB, have many common aspects of thought. The difference is, I dwell in reality and go on what is fact and actually provable by said facts, without using emotion or ideology as a filter.


That is terrible and like all politicians, they should be ashamed, as well as her.

Jeezez MHz, You couldn't just post a sentence describing what you were going to post a link to and then the link and then explain how it has anything to do with Israel's attack on the aid ships?
Of course not. Because she knows she's lost the debate on the legality of the blockade. She knows her platform is falling apart around her, so she has one avenue left to take, flood posts of off topic material to deviate the conversation.

Like anyone is going to bother reading through all that.:roll:
I did.
Saudi Arabia is going to help Israel attack aid ships by air now? How does this tie in with the aid ship attack?
Didn't you know? It's all part of the Rothschild clan's conspiracy to take over the world...

Here is a video intro clip from an up coming series on the History Channel, wherein the producers have followed one such Rothschild operative and his assistant around with camera's....

YouTube - Pinky and The Brain Intro

You can tell they're Zionist Joos, just by looking at them. The large sloping brow of the Brain, almost ape like. Pinky of course has that tell tale Heeb nose. Not to mention they're sniveling rats, doing evil deeds to take over the world, under the cover of darkness. Just like the young are tought in the Palestinian schools. That's how you know they're evil Jews.

That is a bit of history of Israel's best friend, that is what you asked for.
Not its isn't. That is exactly what she was talking about. The deception of "they did worse". Which is something you have been doing for as long as you've posted here.

Go ahead force yourself to read the list, afraid they might not the knight in shining armor they say they are.
The US and US foreign policy is not my knight in shining armour, as I can easily prove, and yet, I still find misguided and misleading examples of bad acts in your list. If you care to start a serious debate on those lists, feel free to do so, and I'll show you where your errors are there.
You should be delighted to go through every event on the list and explain to us (lesser informed) just how all those people were the scum of the earth and deserved what they go and they were damned lucky any were left alive.
Stop trying to deviate the topic. Start a thread and I'll educate the lesser informed there.

Already read it, here's another one for your.


Russia Reverses on S-300 Missile Sale to Iran -- News from Antiwar.com


Tell me both of things didn't involve a lot of secret back-door meetings.
Or maybe they got a clue when they actually read the laws. Something you should be well acquainted with now.

Iran was keen to buy the missiles, the backbone of Russia’s air defense, as a hedge against the oft-threatened Israeli attack against them. Israel repeatedly dispatched officials to Russia regarding the possible delivery, on differing occasions pleading with Russia or threatening them over the possible delivery.
But I bet you believe this part of that article is pure fact, even though it's pure conjecture.

An act that is deceptive from the start, that is how the free world does it's real business, we hardly have the right to demonize anybody.
And yet you do, constantly, without hesitation, without knowing the facts, without knowing history, without understanding the whole picture, without a clue.

Sure you did, I even quoted you in the 1st half of the list exposing most of America's crimes against other Nations.
Yes you quoted her, but you missed the point and did exactly what she was talking about. Excusing one travesty, by claiming someone else did worse, lol.

X millions killed and whole nations put into turmoil and your biggest concern is it's off topic? ROFLMFAO
Twist and spin much?

Blah.... I think there should be a blockade placed around the whole Muddled East so Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Israel and any terror freedom control wannabes we can vacuum into the mix have to either sort out their differences and learn to get along or blast themselves to oblivion.
Although I somewhat agree. I truly believe that would lead to a far greater death toll. With far more innocent life lost, then the belligerents.

Turkey is a total blast to travel to. Some of the friendliest people on the planet they'll be part of the EU long before going haywire like Pakistan or Syria.
God I hope so.

Did you see a one-sided assumption there? It's an either/or situation ... unless you happen to be selective reading.
That's their idea of balanced and objective LW. Read it how you want it to be and ignore anything that doesn't support their ideology. But I highly suspect you already knew that.
 
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That didn't answer my question - are the Kurds entitled to an autonomous state?


I mean, they (the Kurds) obviously din't feel that they are respected for who and what they are, they feel like second class citizens - it's not as if they just moved in to that area - they've been there for milenia. Turkey takes a Kurd, Saladin, one of the most honorable warriors and statesmen - and claims him as a Turk - no mention that he was a Kurd - the whole Kurdish culture and history has been taken by the Turkish government and put to the side - why should they want to be 'Turks'? They might live in Turkey, but they are Kurds, with their own history. Tell me, do they have the right to be independent?
Yes they do, they have been trying to get independence for years. They just want Turkey to leave them alone.
 

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An interesting, brief, read and an article that humourously encapsulates and emulates the tactic we've seen in this thread. Gloss over and move on to a topic that has little to do with the ramifications of the impact of the original argument. I mean why would we want to actually debate the legality of the boarding of a flotilla, who's own organizers have stated was not about humanitarian aid, but about breaking the blockade and attacking Israel.

Abbas to Obama: I'm against lifting the Gaza naval blockade

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is opposed to lifting the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip because this would bolster Hamas, according to what he told United States President Barack Obama during their meeting at the White House Wednesday. Egypt also supports this position.
Right after that title and statement, the article shifts right to Netanyahu and his dragging his feet on an investigation and so on.

I mean god forbid the article actually pertain to the title and the very important fact that Abbas and Egypt both feel the blockade should stand. But then again, Abbas and Egypt are just American puppets right? Odd how only the puppets want peace, lol.
 

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Don't tell Selin that. She might have your balls for breakfast.
Sorry - My wife owns them now - she would have to borrow them.

That didn't answer my question - are the Kurds entitled to an autonomous state?


I mean, they (the Kurds) obviously din't feel that they are respected for who and what they are, they feel like second class citizens - it's not as if they just moved in to that area - they've been there for milenia. Turkey takes a Kurd, Saladin, one of the most honorable warriors and statesmen - and claims him as a Turk - no mention that he was a Kurd - the whole Kurdish culture and history has been taken by the Turkish government and put to the side - why should they want to be 'Turks'? They might live in Turkey, but they are Kurds, with their own history. Tell me, do they have the right to be independent?

Yes.
 

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Who do they want to belong to? It doesn't seem like Turkey is interested in taking up the 'good neighbor again'. The US is there to unite the country in peace and brotherhood, can't do that if everybody wants to scatter off in every damn direction.

There will peace in that whole country even if everybody has to die to achieve it.

Old evil oil in the mix again. Kurds sit on huge oil reserves that Saddam had been trying to totally control for years and now Turkey wants it.
 

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I know it's hard to believe, but you, me, DB, have many common aspects of thought. The difference is, I dwell in reality and go on what is fact and actually provable by said facts, without using emotion or ideology as a filter.
We are cut from the same cloth to a certain extent. I'm trying to keep hold of all of my emotion because when I lose one I lose them all. I'm not talking about impulsive action, I'm talking about saying you feel compassion for one yet cannot feel compassion for another that is going through a similar situation. Was it Law or Emotion that was the driving force behind the creation of Israel. Neither was the factor in the first step that ended in the creation of Israel, much as you and Colpy dislike the idea it was a Rothschild project. An idea remains an idea until there comes a sequence of event that 'start the ball rolling'. That includes financing. Every day we can say who is helping who. Follow the money is not a new saying, the Rothschild people do not fund projects that are geared to failure nor do they blab about what they are up to. You would be quite happy to find a guilty party and that is case closed. they love that. That means there could not have been any hidden meetings, who does that benefit the most. You say you 'check the facts' bulldung . WW1 was a war in which the banks were paid back all loans with interest, win or lose. That's right the loser had to pay the banks back before any of the ones fighting got care for themselves, using loans with more interest if it could be arranged. Along with other allegations there is enough 'proof' that they should at least be investigated in full. The poverty and stress that much of the world went through during the two great wars was in part cause by many people being poor and in bread lines. Dig up the price of the cost of WWII and all the aftermath and apply that to the depression years, there would not have been a war in which 20 million civilians died. Those two wars were also the first wars where the military focused on civilians more than on each other's forces. If two people decided one of them needs a kick in the nuts it is decided by the two, not by kicking a bystander that happens to be. That is part of what the UN documents would point to. Want to kill each other go off into a desert and do it, nobody is going to stop you, the ones who don't wand a part will see the birds circling and head off in a slightly different direction. Why do their financing always come through but the peaceful projects get very little or nothing at all, like Iran's need for power that does not use up their own exportable products. This part on that deal is the stinker part. Any objections should have been made prior to the first shovel full of dirt being moved. Doing so after is just whining. Instead they were allowed to spend time and money and only the last piece was kept from them. Nobody who was objecting offered anything in return. That is the immoral and illegal part that is never talked about. Our courts are geared to allow it to seek justice further down the line if the ones who commit the crimes were not also the ones to plan the crime. The US and Israel play that card several times a week, every week, yet it is a card that only they have, nobody else has that same right, under laws that they themselves have written. The down-trodden do not have to accept that as a fact that cannot be changed.

Your post has a few other points to cover so you might want to wait till you read that before you reply to this one.

Old evil oil in the mix again. Kurds sit on huge oil reserves that Saddam had been trying to totally control for years and now Turkey wants it.
They have enough money they could buy all they ever needed. Same little group that the US controls is attacking Iran using acts of war before declaring a war formally. Isn't that how your country finally got in t o WWII? If she was strapped for cash she could charge higher fees of the goods that use any of her facilities, now and in the future. Iran would sell them the oil products they need, maybe even give the $3 B / yr for free and whose business would it be?
Seeing Muslim nations get ahead is not the goal of the US and Israel, they are out to get just themselves ahead. Afghanistan was put into turmoil by the US because their rapid development also meant spending lots of money and it was good and products that would have come from the USSR, the fake enemy.

If Hamas made Israel the offer to recognize them if they would allow Hamas's grievances (starting back in Nov '47) to be heard by the ICC would they jump at the opportunity to end this 'armed conflict'? I don't think they would because I don't think they think they could win, Israel would then have 5.5 m Arabs have just come home.
 

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I always loved the concept of paragraphs. It makes reading loquacious monologues a little easier.
 

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An interesting, brief, read and an article that humourously encapsulates and emulates the tactic we've seen in this thread. Gloss over and move on to a topic that has little to do with the ramifications of the impact of the original argument. I mean why would we want to actually debate the legality of the boarding of a flotilla, who's own organizers have stated was not about humanitarian aid, but about breaking the blockade and attacking Israel.

Right after that title and statement, the article shifts right to Netanyahu and his dragging his feet on an investigation and so on.

I mean god forbid the article actually pertain to the title and the very important fact that Abbas and Egypt both feel the blockade should stand. But then again, Abbas and Egypt are just American puppets right? Odd how only the puppets want peace, lol.
The bockade breaking was the goal, at the moment that is the direction things are going despite false claims by Israel and the US, as in the article below.

PA denies Abbas report on maintaining Gaza siege Aletho News
Bethlehem – Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudaineh rebuffed an Israeli media report Sunday alleging President Mahmoud Abbas called for the continuation of Gaza’s blockade during a recent meeting with his US counterpart.
“President Abbas had raised the issue of the necessity of lifting the blockade as a matter on a par with the fate of the peace process,” Abu Rudaineh told the Palestinian Authority-run WAFA news agency.
Israel’s siege on the Gaza Strip is being discussed with Arab and international leaders, the spokesman said, urging the international community to “take advantage of the current atmosphere” following an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid fleet to lift the blockade “which will end suffering and create a good chance for reviving the peace process.”
‘Another attempt to deflect Israeli responsibility
Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Ereket, who accompanied Abbas on his US visit, further denounced the report on Sunday, saying it was “yet another disinformation attempt aimed at distorting facts and deflecting Israel’s responsibility to end the illegal and inhuman siege on Gaza,” a statement read.


"attacking Israel"
A few people that Israel has declared to be terrorists (with no opportunity to dispute that charge) had an opportunity to beat up some Israeli military people and they took advantage to give them some bruises. A terrorist would have chosen a softer target for releasing their anger on.

Actually, the only person that keeps bringing up Jewish history and biblical BS, is mhz.
The whole reason those people were given that area is a claim that they lived there some 2,000 years ago and they claim they are fulfilling prophecy. In a sense they are, they are showing that they are still acting just like Jesus said in Matt:23.
At least I can understand the Scripture they are trying to pass of as justification. It's false plain and simple and when confronted they do not push the issue.


Of course not. Because she knows she's lost the debate on the legality of the blockade. She knows her platform is falling apart around her, so she has one avenue left to take, flood posts of off topic material to deviate the conversation.[/QUOTE]
Shirley Bear you remember the legality issue I conceded to was the one of the right to board a ship that is about to enter a blockade, basically a zone of an armed conflict and I have seen no law that states a signed 'cease fire' can justify gun play on the open Ocean. They only have the right to search a confiscate they do not have the right to deviate the ship away from their intended destination.

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Didn't you know? It's all part of the Rothschild clan's conspiracy to take over the world...[/QUOTE]
You missed the memo, they already own it and they have for centuries, nothing 'big' happens without them knowing about it and approving it. See how well they have you buffaloed and you claim to be on top of things.

Not its isn't. That is exactly what she was talking about. The deception of "they did worse". Which is something you have been doing for as long as you've posted here.
No need to post it if they weren't pretending that they aren't that vicious, force as a first and last option, with a list like that Nations have a right to not want to do business with them. It never works like that, at the first sign of that the sneaky back-door stuff that they keep hidden or lie about if questioned is brought into play. If that is freedom it should not have a 'or else' clause attached.

The US and US foreign policy is not my knight in shining armour, as I can easily prove, and yet, I still find misguided and misleading examples of bad acts in your list. If you care to start a serious debate on those lists, feel free to do so, and I'll show you where your errors are there.
You start, I'll get there as time permits. Choose your own but don't forget Haiti going back to the reception the slave revolt. You can include France as it was a combined attack that was 250 years long.

Or maybe they got a clue when they actually read the laws. Something you should be well acquainted with now.
Stopping a few arms is not dropping any defensive agreements they have. Some they would not have needed if it was not for US reaction to being kicked out in '79.

Yes you quoted her, but you missed the point and did exactly what she was talking about. Excusing one travesty, by claiming someone else did worse, lol.
The article shows they cannot claim to be of higher moral character than anybody in the near or far past., they play that card constantly.
 
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The US has just announced their support for Israel doing an impartial inquiry into the Humanitarian Aid Flotilla Massacre which resulted in the deaths of at least 8 Turkish and 1 American citizens. (Other people are still missing and may be dead or locked away in Israeli torture chambers.)
White House backs Israeli internal inquiry into Gaza flotilla deaths | World news | The Guardian

I doubt Turkey will be happy. Makes about as much sense as letting an accused criminal conduct their own investigation.

Meanwhile, the people of Gaza are hopeful that Israel's 4 year food, medicine and humanitarian aid blockade might be eased enough for them to get food to end chronic malnutrition which is stunting the growth of tens of thousands of Gaza children.
AFP: Arab chief on landmark visit to Gaza

Given the unshakable support of Western leaders like Obama and Harper for Israel's cruel blockade, its likely Gaza children will continue to suffer Israeli induced disease and malnutrition for the foreseeable future.

The International Committee of the Red Cross regarding Israel's blockade:

Israel's Gaza blockade breaks law, says ICRC
Mon Jun 14, 201

...Israel's raid on a Gaza aid flotilla two weeks ago, in which nine pro-Palestinian Turkish activists were killed, highlighted acute hardships faced by 1.5 million Gazans due to the closure since 2007, it said. They endure unemployment, poverty and warfare, and health care whose quality is at an "all time low."

"The whole of Gaza'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's obligations under international humanitarian law," the ICRC said in a five-page statement. It was the first time the ICRC has said explicitly that Israel's blockade constitutes a violation of international humanitarian law embodied in the Geneva Conventions, an ICRC spokeswoman said. The Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, ratified by Israel, bans collective punishment of a civilian population....

Israel's Gaza blockade breaks law, says ICRC | World | Reuters
The ICRC's Mission Statement

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance.

The ICRC also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles.

Established in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It directs and coordinates the international activities conducted by the Movement in armed conflicts and other situations of violence.