Latest Israeli air-strikes target Gaza food production

Latest Israeli air-strikes target Gaza food production

Gaza radio has been reporting several air strikes in Rafah tonight. It has been reported that a chicken farm was one of the targets, and tunnels another.

An earlier air strike hit a cattle farm.

On Sunday a cheeses and yoghurt factory was targeted, destroying the factory for the fifth time since Operation Cast Lead at the end of 2008. The only weapons ever produced in this factory are lactobacillus casei - a weapon in the war on indigestion.

The deliberate destruction of agricultural and food production enterprises, as well as one of the few sources of imports - the tunnels - is clear evidence of the collective punishment Israel is conducting against the residents of Gaza, on top of its illegal, inhumane, and completely indefensible siege.

As a resident of Gaza, the only thing more offensive to me than Israel's constant attacks on Gaza's citizens, their livelihoods, their sustenance, and now their very survival is the impunity granted Israel by an international community too gutless and ineffectual to stand up to this rogue state, and hold it accountable for its multiple breaches of human rights and international law.

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