No supplies for Hamas.

"Hamas has made an urgent plea to international relief organisations to deliver essential medical and humanitarian supplies to Gaza, where Israel's ongoing airstrikes have exacerbated a deepening humanitarian crisis, CNN reported. The region faces the risk of starvation and the imminent depletion of fuel as Israel has withheld critical supplies in response to Hamas's recent acts of violence." The Print. Surely, Hamas is mocking Palestinians suffering due to Israel's blockade and bombing. All it has to do is to release the  estimated 150 Israelis that it has kidnapped and is holding as hostages." NYT. "They include civilians, soldiers, people with disabilities, children, grandparents and even a 9-month old baby." The cowards think that they will be safe with so many hostages as human shields to hide behind, and will be able to negotiate a commitment from the Israeli government not to extract revenge at a later date in exchange for safe release of the hostages. Not surprisingly, "Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said every Hamas member was a 'dead man' after the first meeting of his country's emergency government." BBC. "The death toll in Israel has reached 1,200, More than 1,100 people have been killed by Isreali air strikes in Gaza." "On Monday, Hamas said that four Israeli hostages had been killed in an Israeli strike, though the claim could not be independently verified." In taking so many hostages, Hamas apparently thought they could free thousands of Palestinians in Israeli jails. NPR. "When Islamist group Hamas launched a spectacular attack against Israel, it also took aim at attempts to forge new security alignments that could threaten Palestinian aspirations for statehood and the ambitions of the group's main backer Iran." The attack "coincides with US-backed moves to push Saudi Arabia towards normalising ties with Israel in return for a defence deal between Washington and Riyadh, a move that would slam the brakes on the kingdom's recent rapprochement with Tehran." In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza as "around 9,000 Jews living in 25 settlements were evicted and the Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza strip to the Green Line - a 1949 Armistice Line drawing boundaries between Israel and its Arab neighbors." NDTV. Hamas could have developed Gaza in peace but it fought with the Fatah group for total control and has been fighting with Israel ever since. Israel and Egypt blockaded Gaza to stop the movement of militants and the supply of arms. Over the years, the international community has poured billions of dollars in aid, in the fond delusion that they were helping ordinary Palestinians. AP. Clearly, Hamas diverted most of the money to buy and make arms. It launched over 5,000 rockets into Israel, overwhelming its Iron Dome defence. NDTV. How many countries possess 5,000 rockets? Hamas should learn from Pakistan whose army has been encouraging terrorism against India, including the attack of Mumbai in which 175 people died and over 300 were injured. wikipedia. Today Pakistani citizens are staring at famine as the economy has collapsed. Dawn. Israel has cut off water and fuel supplies. Hamas is terrorist for Israel. But even bigger terrorist for Palestinians. Like the Pakistan army.