Israel lets Palestinians flee; UN warns of crisis

Israel lets Palestinians flee; UN warns of crisis

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EREZ CROSSING, Israel – Israel allowed several hundred Palestinians with foreign passports to flee Gaza on Friday, even as its warplanes bombed a mosque it said was used to store weapons and destroyed homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives.

The evacuees told of crippling shortages of water, electricity and medicine, echoing a U.N. warning of a deepening humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip in the seven-day-old Israeli campaign. The U.N. estimates at least a quarter of the 400 Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes on Hamas militants were civilians.

Jawaher Hajji, a 14-year-old U.S. citizen who was allowed to cross into Israel, said her uncle was one of them — killed while trying to pick up some medicine for her cancer-stricken father. She said her father later died of his illness

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Well my friends, it appears as if Israel is at least attempting to alow some of the innocent people caught in this crisis out. With humanitarian conditions worsining, the lack of food and medicine as well as the growing number of civilian casualties this action by Israel should not go unnoticed, Through an orderly release of foregin passprot holders Israel is doing the least to ensure the civilian deathtoll does not climb any higher.

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The real question we should ask is...will they be allowed to return if they wish to once hostilities are over?

Originally posted by Taikonaut
The real question we should ask is...will they be allowed to return if they wish to once hostilities are over?

Good question, we'll see is Israel doesn't "keep the door locked" although I had previously mentioned that this is the least that Israel can do to better the situation, in any case I'm at least some will get to saftey.