Jerusalem - Former US president Jimmy Carter urged Israel to lift a crippling blockade of Hamas-run Gaza Strip in an interview on Sunday, saying the territory's residents were being treated like savages.
"To me, the most grievous circumstance is the maltreatment of the people in Gaza, who are literally starving and have no hope at this time," Carter told the liberal Haaretz newspaper.
"They're being treated like savages. The alleviation of their plight to some means I think would be the most important (thing) the Israeli PM could do.
"The interview was published on the same day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to lay out his cabinet's Middle East peace policy.
Carter is due to visit the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as part of a regional tour.
Israel slapped a punishing blockade on Gaza after Islamist Hamas, pledged to the destruction of the Jewish state, violently seized power there in June 2007.
Since then Israel and Egypt, which controls Gaza's only border crossing that bypasses the Jewish state, have kept the impoverished territory of 1,5 million aid-dependent people sealed to all but essential humanitarian supplies.
They are savages, that is why they are being treated like savages. Look at the pictures of the previous post. They are really teaching their children of peace.
10 years ago
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