How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe

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Author(s)	Avi Shlaim
Source	The Guardian
Date	January 7, 2009
URL	http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/07/gaza-israel-palestine
Quote	"It was not Hamas but the IDF that broke the ceasefire. It did so by a raid into Gaza on 4 November that killed six Hamas men. Israel's objective is not just the defence of its population but the eventual overthrow of the Hamas government in Gaza by turning the people against their rulers. And far from taking care to spare civilians, Israel is guilty of indiscriminate bombing and of a three-year-old blockade that has brought the inhabitants of Gaza, now 1.5 million, to the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe."

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This item argues against the position Israel was right to attack Gaza on the topic Gaza War.