In response to: The gaza massacre didn't just go away when the Israelis finally stopped bombarding the strip. The scale of the emergency was far too great to be solved by existing aid structures.
In England a lot of different humanitarian groups banded together to try and help. Part of their plan was to appeal for donations via television ads.
However the BBC and Sky TV networks have refused to run the ads for political reasons.
Here's the ad.
Judge for yourselves whether you think the ad is inappropriate or offensive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smBSqO90k4c The Geneva-based Defense for Children International says, according to Time Magazine, that “the ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian child prisoners appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized, suggesting complicity at all levels of the political and military chain of command.”
Since the attacks, more than 75% of the youth of Gaza do not believe their parents can protect them from Israeli soldiers. Surrounded by the rubble of schools, hospitals, and whole neighborhoods, and with virtually no hope of employment upon graduation (the siege-induced unemployment rate is 80%), it is hard for the youth of Gaza to envision much of a future. And it is virtually impossible for their parents, highly educated but lacking agency and employment, to give them hope.