Egypt’s government takes the heat as the Gazans’ lot gets even worse



Illustration by Peter Schrank
THE president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, is coming under growing criticism, abroad and at home, for failing to ease the plight of Gaza’s 1.5m people, whose misery is increasing as Israel’s siege of the tiny coastal strip grinds on. The blockade has enjoyed the quiet backing of America and its allies as well as Egypt’s practical co-operation in closing Gaza’s only border not directly controlled by Israel.
The blockade was meant to force Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that conquered Gaza in mid-2007 after winning a general election in the Palestinian territories the year before, to renounce violence,

كاريكاتير معبر بصراحه .. حيث يظهر الاحتلال الصهيوني يضغط علي اهالي غزة ويحاول اهالي غزة الخروج عبر معبر رفح ويقوم حسني مبارك باغلاق المعبر .. هذا هو المعني من هذا الكاريكاتير

المصدر الرئيسي للمقاله والكاريكاتير
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