World Finally Cares About Malnutrition In Gaza Strip

18 October 2011

Gilad Shalit looks frail and emaciated: what have his captors done to him?

Gilad Shalit's health brings fresh scrutiny of Hamas detention practices; Israeli soldier looked emaciated after release, adding to concerns about treatment of detainees in Gaza – and in Israel.
 

19 February 2006 

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The Hamas team had not laughed so much in a long time. The team, headed by the prime minister's advisor Dov Weissglas and including the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, the director of the Shin Bet and senior generals and officials, convened for a discussion with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on ways to respond to the Hamas election victory. Everyone agreed on the need to impose an economic siege on the Palestinian Authority, and Weissglas, as usual, provided the punch line: "It's like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won't die," the advisor joked, and the participants reportedly rolled with laughter. And, indeed, why not break into laughter and relax when hearing such a successful joke? If Weissglas tells the joke to his friend Condoleezza Rice, she would surely laugh too.

-- As the Hamas team laughs; Haaretz, 19 Feb 2006. (link; with some poverty and malnutrition stats for the Gaza Strip).