Revealing Silence at the Gaza-Egypt Border

Gazan lies and Media bias. Disturbing? Nope, just business as usual.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/revealing-silence-at-the-gaza-egypt-border/

Hamas initially offered two reasons for not allowing the wounded out: 1) the roads were too dangerous to venture out on, and 2) they were composing a list of the wounded. Both of these are just the kind of lame excuse that, had they been voiced by Israeli spokesmen, the BBC interviewers would have jumped all over them. Israelis have targeted only military and government sites; no ambulances have been hit and the roads are full of cars bringing wounded (past cameras) to hospitals. As for making up a list of 600 wounded before evacuating any, surely you must be kidding.

Then Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, speaking to Khaled Abu Toameh, denied the Egyptian allegation that Hamas was to blame, "claiming that many of the wounded rejected an Egyptian offer to receive medical treatment in Cairo in protest against Cairo's 'support' for the IDF operation. He accused the Egyptians of taking part in the 'siege' on the Gaza Strip by refusing to reopen the Rafah crossing." Hamas even delivered before the cameras a group of "family members" who claimed they refused to let their wounded go because of their anger at Egypt's behavior. On the contrary, as Ma'an News Agency reported, Hamas would allow no passage of wounded until the border was completely open.

More hollow claims. Gazans don't hesitate to accept medical aid from the Israelis, the people who in their minds actually inflict the wounds. So why not take Egyptian aid? And of the 600 wounded (according to Palestinian sources) all of them, suffering in a ludicrously crowded and understaffed hospital, refused to go to Egypt?