Gaza: this shameful injustice will only end if the cost of it rises

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Author(s)	Seumas Milne
Source	The Guardian
Date	July 16, 2014
URL	http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/16/gaza-shameful-injustice-israel-attacks-occupied-people
Quote	Hamas is now blamed for refusing to accept a ceasefire plan cooked up by Netanyahu and his ally, the Egyptian President Sisi, who overthrew Hamas’s sister organisation the Muslim Brotherhood last year and has since tightened the eight-year siege of Gaza. But having already suffered so much, many Gazans believe no further truce should be agreed without the lifting of the illegal blockade which has reduced the strip to hunger and beggary and effectively imprisoned its population.

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This item argues against the position Israel was justified in its actions on the topic Operation Protective Edge.