It’s a one-two punch this week from the UN and Human Rights Watch.
First, the UN blames Israel for the lack of progress in Gaza. Because after all, what’s a hundred or so rockets between enemies? Why should Israel let the bombardment of her southern towns and cities stop cement, metal, fuel, and fertilizer—which could be used to make bunkers and more rockets—through the Gaza crossings?
Two months after Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers declared unilateral cease-fires, Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that there has also been little progress on preventing illicit arms trafficking into the coastal territory and reconciling the rival Palestinian factions.
He said the key impediment is “the intolerable situation at Gaza’s crossings.”
Israel has banned the entry of nearly all construction materials, spare parts and other industrial goods essential to rebuild the territory, Pascoe said, and the quality and quantity of food and other imports allowed into Gaza “are insufficient compared to needs.”
And where does the AP report about the number of rockets fired by Hamas and its allies that might—just might—be the reason for Israel’s reluctance to resupply Gaza? Why, in the last paragraph, of course. Where it gets lopped off in most newspapers.
In the absence of a cease-fire, Pascoe said, violence has continued with more than 100 rockets and mortars fired into Israel, and a dozen Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.
Consider this another bit of your daily dose of media bias against Israel.