Gaza suffers under Israeli blockade The one-and-a-half million Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to cope amid power cuts as Israel continues its fuel blockade of the territory. The shutdown of Gaza's only power plant has prompted fears of a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Moaiya Hassanain, a health ministry official, said: "We have the choice to either cut electricity on babies in the maternity ward or heart surgery patients or stop operating rooms." Gaza City awoke on Monday to find bread shops and petrol stations closed. ---------------------------------------------- This, and the killings of other Palestinians during the week, plus the closures, "raise very serious questions about Israel's respect for international law and its Commitment to the peace process", Dugard said. He said it violates the strict prohibition on collective punishment contained in the Fourth Geneva Convention, and one of the basic principles of international humanitarian law: that military action must distinguish between military targets and civilian targets. let us all be with gaza in its darkeness and suffer......till this have an end read more here: www.freegaza.ps/english/ english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CC981B4C-A277-4F1F-B9FB-A... www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=26617