Reuters: Heartless Israelis Block Aid to Woebegone Palis

The idiots at Reuters are giving the New York Times a run for their money in the propaganda game.

Check out this headline.

Israel closes Gaza crossings, blocks aid shipments

Israel tightened its closure of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday in response to cross-border rocket fire, preventing even U.N. humanitarian supplies from getting in, officials said.

Aww, the poor things.

Well, this is a direct result of the actions of Hamas. It's their problem.

Israel's stepped up campaign against Gaza militants has prompted warnings from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's government in the occupied West Bank that renewed peace talks -- spurred by last week's visit by U.S. President George W. Bush -- were in jeopardy.

The Israeli Defence Ministry ordered all of the border crossings with Gaza closed and said only "humanitarian cases" which receive Defence Minister Ehud Barak's personal approval will be allowed through.

"If milk is low in Gaza, the minister will be asked to approve a milk shipment, and it will enter," a Defence Ministry spokesman said.

Gaza is home to 1.5 million people, most of whom depend on foreign aid.

Barak had vowed to broaden Israeli military operations against Gaza militants who have fired more than 110 rockets into the Jewish state in the last three days.

One of the makeshift rockets landed 40 meters (44 yards) from an Israeli nursery school on Friday, and government spokesman David Baker said Israel "will not be deterred from taking any necessary steps" to halt the fire from Gaza.

They're firing rockets at nursery schools and we're supposed to feel sorry for them?

Israel has killed more than 30 Palestinians in Gaza this week, including a militant in a missile strike Friday morning.

In the West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli troops killed a militant linked to Abbas's Fatah movement.

An Ecuadorean volunteer on an Israeli farming community bordering Gaza was shot dead by a Palestinian sniper on Tuesday.

'SHUT DOWN'

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides food to refugees, said it was not allowed to deliver truckloads of supplies on Friday morning as it usually does.

"Gaza is completely shut down. This will only add to an already dire situation," said UNRWA spokesman Christopher Gunness.

Well, Mr. Gunness, that's just too bad.

Maybe of these bloodthirsty Islamofascists stopped trying to murder Israelis with impunity, the dire situation would improve.

Until then, I can't for a second feel their pain.