標題:以黎戰火／加薩走廊居民：不要忽略我們的困境！
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以色列與黎巴嫩真主黨戰事攫獲全球媒體關注的同時，以色列仍揮軍南下加
薩走廊，12日至今加薩走廊已有97人遭殺害，加薩走廊的巴勒斯坦人表示，
因為現在媒體都在關注以黎局勢，忽略了加薩走廊居民的困境，才讓以色列得以放手在加
薩走廊殺害巴勒斯坦人。
以黎戰火爆發後，以色列甚而轟炸聯合國觀察站，引發全球媒體關注，但加
薩走廊局勢的報導則相對減少。
加薩走廊的巴勒斯坦人說，儘管以黎站是更趨激烈後，以色列對加薩走廊的軍事壓制確實
減少很多，以軍依然不時進入加薩走廊搜尋「武裝份子」，並在過程中殺害不少巴勒斯坦
人。
據統計，12日至今，已有97名加薩走廊居民被殺，當地巴勒斯坦人表示，因為現在很少媒
體注意他們的困境，讓以軍能在加薩走廊放手殺害巴勒斯坦人。
http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/editorial_opinion/region/10055936.html
Published: 07/30/2006 12:00 AM UAE
The forgotten war
By Joshua Mitnick
As fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continues to rage in Lebanon and
northern Israel, Palestinians find themselves at the margins of a regional
conflict that has shifted attention away from their six-year uprising for the
first time.
The two-week war between Israel with the radical Shiite militia has also
highlighted the Hezbollah-Iran alliance as a major Middle East flashpoint
that has overshadowed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
And at times, a resolution to the ongoing Gaza clashes has been seen as
contingent upon an eventual ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah.
"The Palestinians have to prove that they are not in the same basket, and
that they should not be punished for the Lebanese cause," said Omar Shaban, a
Gaza-based political analyst. "We have our own political agenda. We need a
political solution. What is going on in Lebanon is different. Hezbollah has
no political agenda. Lebanon is not occupied by Israel."
Palestinians have alleged that the fighting in Lebanon has given Israel a
free hand in incursions into the Gaza Strip, sparked by the kidnapping of an
Israeli soldier there last month, which has more than 130 civilians dead.
On Wednesday, Israeli aircraft and artillery barrages in Gaza killed 13
Palestinians eight were suspected militants, a spokesman from Hamas and
Islamic Jihad said, but one of the dead was a young girl.
Meanwhile, the economic crisis from an international boycott of the Hamas-led
Palestinian National Authority has continued to worsen, as crossings into
Gaza remain shut, and food shortages become chronic. "There have been minutes
and days when the Palestinian issue wasn't on the radar," said Saeb Erekat, a
Palestinian negotiator and aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. "But
it's more than that. We're the forgotten war. [On Monday], there were seven
Palestinians killed in Gaza. Does anybody know that?"
During a brief visit in Ramallah on Tuesday to meet Abbas, US Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice sought to calm concern that the international
community had forgotten the ongoing fighting in the Gaza Strip.
And yet, the Hezbollah-Israel war has even distracted Palestinians. Outside
of the presidential complex where Rice and Abbas met, several hundred
Palestinian demonstrators chanted, "Rice out! Hezbollah in!" The visit was an
important gesture to bolster support for Abbas, the moderate Palestinian
leader whose party's power was dealt a major blow when Hamas took over the
PNA following a January referendum.
Functioning president
One US official said that the meeting was meant as a signal that Abbas
remains a "functioning and effective" president of the PNA. But some analysts
caution that the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah threatens to undermine
moderate Arab leaders like Abbas who have preferred diplomacy over militancy
to bring peace . "Abbas needs to show his people that he's a key player, that
he is an important part of whatever the world wants to do with this
conflict," said Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab. "He has to do more than
Hamas has done by kidnapping the soldier."
To be sure, earlier this week, Abbas's office was able to obtain $50 million
in aid from the Arab League to pay for a fraction of overdue Palestinian
public salaries only the second payout since February. In Abbas's remarks
following the meeting Tuesday, the Palestinian president told Rice that as
the US government seeks to establish a set of principles that resolves the
roots of violence in the region, it must also end the Israeli occupation of
areas claimed by Palestinians as part of a future state.
Hezbollah's July 12 abduction of two Israeli soldiers from the Lebanon border
came two weeks after Hamas militants snatched 19-year-old Gilad Shalit during
a raid on an Israeli armoured vehicle at the Gaza border. The kidnappings
were initially described as "heroic" by Mohammad Nazzal, the militant Islamic
group's political chief in Lebanon. But some local Hamas politicians say they
are unsure whether the Hezbollah raid will buoy the Palestinian cause. "This
is something that cannot be decided," said Abdul Rahman Zaidan, a
Hamas-appointed Palestinian minister for public works. "It's not a benefit
all the way. It took the attention of the world from concentrating on what is
going on in Gaza, the killing and the destruction."
The Christian Science Monitor
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