Israel bombs chicken farm and yoghurt factory in GazaA Palestinian inspects the damage done to a chicken farm in Gaza by an Israeli air strike, March 2012
by Julie Webb-Pullman
Scoop
6 June 2012
Gaza radio has been reporting several air strikes in Rafah tonight. It reports that a chicken farm was one of the targets, and tunnels another.
An earlier air strike hit a cattle farm.
On Sunday a cheese and yoghurt factory was targeted, destroying the factory for the fifth time since Operation Cast Lead at the end of 2008. The only weapons ever produced in this factory are lactobacillus casei – a weapon in the war on indigestion.
The deliberate destruction of agricultural and food production enterprises, as well as one of the few sources of imports – the tunnels – is clear evidence of the collective punishment Israel is conducting against the residents of Gaza, on top of its illegal, inhumane and completely indefensible siege.
As a resident of Gaza, the only thing more offensive to me than Israel’s constant attacks on Gaza’s citizens, their livelihoods, their sustenance, and now their very survival is the impunity granted Israel by an international community too gutless and ineffectual to stand up to this rogue state, and hold it accountable for its multiple breaches of human rights and international law.