Where is this evidence of extreme deprivation?

Published: 11 March 2010

• I FEAR Yael Kahn, who writes in her letter (March 4) of the “evidence of the death, hunger and suffering” in Gaza, may also have been bamboozled.
Where is this evidence? Where are the statistics about the numbers who have died of starvation, the photos or footage of extreme deprivation? You would think the people of Gaza might have managed to smuggle some out, in the same way that they smuggle in consumer goods, not to mention guns and rockets, through their tunnels  into Egypt (which incidentally also maintains a “siege of Gaza”). Humanitarian aid has also gone into Gaza and photos show normal shops and market stalls.  
Skip Murphy talks of “blitzkrieg” (charming comparison of Jews to Nazis, there, Mr Murphy) on Gaza during Cast Lead and the numbers killed. The sad reality is that people get killed in all wars. Especially so when fighters embed themselves among the civilian population and refuse to move their families to safety, even after the IDF has warned them to do so by phone and text, as happened in Gaza. The Israelis, in contrast, protect their own from rocket attacks by building shelters. That is why more people have died in Gaza than in Sderot.
Instead of always hysterically blaming Israel, Palestinians and their supporters should look at Hamas, who far from being brave freedom fighters brutally murder their political opponents, openly call for the total destruction of Israel and do not want peace for their people.
NICOLE SERGE, NW5