Israel allows first shipment of cattle into Gaza for 9 months

[Violet_Crumble]

Following nine months of beef being embargoed from entering the Gaza Strip, the coordinator of activities in the territories, Amos Gilad, has allowed the first shipment of 350 head of cattle into the Strip.

Sources involved in the matter said that the resumption of beef supply to the Gaza Strip is in part the result of U.S. pressure on Israel to lift all restrictions on the importation of various types of foodstuffs into the Strip.

The same sources also pointed to the pending visit of Defense Minister Ehud Barak to Egypt as another impetus for the easing of the embargo.


In the Gaza Strip, preparations are being made for the importation of more cattle for slaughter next week, and for the sale of a total of nearly 4,000 head of cattle through the month of Ramadan, which will commence in September.

Israel's ban on the importation of livestock into Gaza, which has included cattle, sheep and goats, did not succeed in preventing them from being smuggled in. According to Gaza-based sources, hundreds if not thousands of head of livestock were smuggled in from Sinai in recent months, via tunnels.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1094436.html

[peacetalksforall]

1. So what was Israel's goal? Control over the people? Conversion to vegetarianism? Because they

can? Because they are dictators? Because cows, goats, and sheep are security risks?

Or did Israel expect the Palestinians to follow the animals into Egypt so they can accomplish their ultimate purpose - drive out the Palestinians so they can have the land and water and earth resources from themselves?

[Lakrosse]

2. more like to keep the weapons

out of the hands of Hamas, violent Islamic terror group. Especially when they got the Brotherhood smuggling weapons in tunnels.

[azurnoir]

4. Your reply is utterly nonsensical

what has allowing food supplied by other countries to come through Israel's crossing after of course being thoroughly security checked by IDF got to do with arms smuggling through the tunnels? Unless of course you're saying that by denying food to through the crossings Israel was forcing the people of Gaza to smuggle in food through the tunnels.

[Violet_Crumble]

5. I doubt they're shoving weapons up the cows arses...

There's no reason at all when it comes to security that Israel would have to ban cattle from being imported into Gaza.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Extermination

Gaza is a giant Guantanamo.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. They've been protecting Israel from this sort of attack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV0LGMGuLN0