A humanitarian crisis is occurring in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli army is mercilessly massacring innocent civilians, but the world is looking on in silence.

The situation in Gaza is the outcome of the sinister agreement between U.S. President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
During his trip to the occupied territories, the U.S. president made an inhumane deal with Zionist officials and gave them a free hand to slaughter the Palestinians.
In his visit to Tel Aviv, Bush gave the Zionist regime the green light to suppress Palestinian jihadi movements on the condition that the Zionist lobby supports the Republicans in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
The deafening silence of so-called human rights advocates and international bodies, especially the United Nations, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), and the Arab League, in the face of the carnage only encourages Israeli officials to escalate the violence in Gaza.
Gaza, with a population of some 1.5 million and an area of about 368 square kilometers, where a Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule, the Stone Intifada, started in 1987, is the heartland of Palestine’s Islamic resistance.
That’s why the Zionist regime has always regarded Gaza as the center of opposition to the concessions policy adopted by the Fatah movement and some regional Arab states.
When the Hamas government came to power in January 2006, it had to face major political and security challenges, both domestically and internationally.
At home, the obstructionism of the Fatah movement, the Palestinian Authority, and PA President Mahmoud Abbas led to the Zionist regime’s nine-month blockade of Gaza, which was initiated to topple the democratically-elected Hamas government.
In response to the Palestinian people’s resistance, the Israeli government has been intensifying the restrictions.
In the international arena, the so-called moderate Arab countries, along with the United States and other Western countries, have made every effort to exclude Hamas from Palestine’s political arena and strengthen the government of Mahmoud Abbas while trying to undermine the democratic Hamas government.
Last November’s Annapolis peace conference and Bush’s recent Middle East tour were undertaken in line with the political, economic, and security blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The silence and indifference of the international community and Arab leaders in response to Israel’s heinous crimes creates a new opportunity for Israeli leaders to reinvigorate their image ahead of the release of the Winograd report on the reasons for Israel’s defeat in the 2006 Lebanon war.
In the 33-day war, the Israeli army’s myth of invincibility was shattered, and now Israeli officials are attacking the innocent civilians of Gaza in an attempt to make up for the lost ground.
If, instead of giving Bush a golden sword and precious medals, Arab leaders had urged him to force Israel to accept the UN Security Council resolutions, the world would not have seen such a regrettable situation in the occupied territories.
Now the people of Gaza are urgently in need of Islamic and Arab countries’ assistance to end Israel’s vicious attacks. Otherwise, Gaza will face an unimaginable catastrophe