There is an article in today's New York Times that quotes a statement from the Red Cross in Geneva, quoting a Red Cross team that entered Gaza in the brief period that the IDF allowed for "humanitarian" convoys to get in.
It is devastating in terms of the blind military fury and barbarism that seems to have come over the IDF. Anyone who loves Israel should work unceasingly for a peasceful resolution and immediate truce to prevent Israel's military forces to furher descend in a place they may no want to live with.
From today's New york Times:
The statement said a team of four Palestine Red Crescent ambulances accompanied by Red Cross representatives made its way to Zeitoun Wednesday where it "found four small children next to their dead mothers in one of the houses. They were too weak to stand up on their own. One man was also found alive, too weak to stand up. In all, there were at least 12 corpses lying on mattresses."
In another house, the statement said, the rescue team "found 15 other survivors of this attack including several wounded. In yet another house, they found an additional three corpses. Israeli soldiers posted at a military position some 80 meters away from this house ordered the rescue team to leave the area which they refused to do. There were several other positions of the Israeli Defense forces nearby as well as two tanks."
Because of berms built by Israeli forces, the ambulances could not enter the area "so the children and the wounded had to be taken to the ambulances on a donkey cart," the statement said.
I do not know what the rules of engagement of the IDF are but I doubt that they include letting children die of hunger and thirst. Whatever your political views are, and even knowing that Hamas uses civilians as shields,there is no justification for this.
It is time for good people to pressure Israel's government to not continue to carry out actions which its citizens will regret.