As we pray for the peace of
Jerusalem
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Weekend Ending January 20, 2007
Jeremiah 6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet….
Isaiah 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O
Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make
mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
V:7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise
in the earth.
Psalms
122:6 Pray for the peace of
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Darkness falls on Gaza as Israel takes revenge for rocket attacks
Source: Times Online
20 January 2008 – The lights went out on the Gaza Strip last night when the only electricity plant in the seaside territory closed down after Israel severed fuel supplies.
As the power failed, 1,000 men, women and children held a candlelit procession in Gaza City to protest at the breakdown of their basic services. Some carried posters calling on the international community to come to their aid, others condemned the state of siege that they are living under.
“I appeal to Egypt to break the siege because our children and sick people are dying,” Umm Raed, a 52-year-old housewife, said. Egypt has a border with Gaza, but has mainly shown solidarity with Israel in enforcing an embargo on the Hamas-run territory.
As mobile phone repeaters ran out of power, mobile phones started to lose reception, plunging many areas into silence as well as blackness.
Unable to end the ceaseless volleys of rockets fired by Gaza hardliners into its southern towns and farms, Israel cut off diesel supplies to the Strip, where 1.5 million Palestinians live, in an attempt to force its Islamist rulers to end the attacks.
The moderate Palestinian Prime Minister of the West Bank administration cautioned that Israel was doing nothing to fulfil its pledges to freeze Jewish settlement expansion and ease restrictions that have strangled the economy there.
Officials in Hamas-run Gaza said that the cut in power threatened basic services and posed a health threat because councils were unlikely to be able to pump water, treat sewage, dispose of rubbish or cater for hospital laundry services. The hospitals in Gaza have emergency generators, but would have to curb other services.
Collective punishment for Gaza is wrong: U.N.
Source: Yahoo
20 January 2008 – Israel has a right to respond to security threats but should not collectively punish the Gaza population for rocket attacks from the Palestinian territory, the U.N. humanitarian affairs chief said on Friday.
The United Nations also criticized Israel's decision to close all border crossings with Gaza, preventing delivery of a U.N. aid shipment to the territory's 1.5 million people, most of whom depend on foreign aid.
"We all understand the security problems and the need to respond to that but collective punishment of the people of Gaza is not, we believe, the appropriate way to do that," said John Holmes, undersecretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs.
The deputy head of Israel's mission to the United Nations, Daniel Carmon, told Reuters Israel's actions were "what any responsible government would do when it is confronted as we are with this surge of violence and terrorism." He gave no indication of when the closure would end.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called "for an immediate cessation of Palestinian sniper and rocket attacks into Israel, and for maximum restraint on the part of the Israel Defence Forces," spokeswoman Michel Montas said in a statement.
Israel has killed at
least 33 Palestinians in Gaza this week as part of what it describes
as a stepped-up campaign to force Hamas
to rein in militants who have fired more than 110 rockets into the
Jewish state in the last three days alone.
Comments: Israel has hundreds of rockets coming in from Gaza weekly and nothing has been able to stop this barrage. Now that the power has been cut to Gaza, Officials in Gaza are calling for international intervention to get the power back on because lives are at risk. Any other country in the world would do the same as Israel is doing right now cutting the supply of fuel to a population that continuously attacks them. Israel has stepped up operations in Gaza to deter the Palestinians from firing indiscriminately but so far this tactic has not worked and has had to revert to the power cut option. Maybe when the Palestinians (Hamas) stop firing the rockets, only then will Israel turn the power back on. In my opinion the decision to turn the lights back on is now resting with the Palestinians.
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