Tuesday, 30 December 2008JTW - The commissioner-general of the United Nations (U.N.) Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, Karen AbuZayd, painted a picture of fear and chaos in Gaza. AbuZayd in a recent UN conference said she is concerned that the situation will grow even worse if Israel launches a ground offensive into the territory.
"Because the targets have moved from being the Hamas institutions, police stations and so on to individual houses - people are being warned to evacuate their houses - it has become very unpredictable. People do not know where to be. And now the fear of the land invasion everyone has been expecting. So if this has been bad, having targeted air strikes all around, we are very much afraid of what it would mean if the troops are coming in by land."
Several nations, including Turkey, Spain and Iran, are attempting to send supplies to the Palestinian territories, either through Egypt, sea way or via humanitarian organizations in the region.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008
Journal of Turkish Weekly
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