The Gaza humanitarian crisis

About a week ago, a fellow blogger posted an open letter Did Singapore raise the Gaza humanitarian crisis issue with Israel? in which he wrote,

Given the close trade and diplomatic relationships between Singapore and Israel, there is a need for Singaporeans and the Singapore government to highlight this particular concern to Israel. At the very least and for a start, we need to urge the Israelis to stop the economic blockade imposed in Gaza which has subjected the population to greater economic misery.

In his follow-up post today Humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening - why is everyone keeping mum? he writes he's appalled with the silence,

It has been close to a week since I have sent out my emails to the Ministers and MPs of Singapore who went on a delegation trip to Israel; the Association of Muslim Professional (AMP) and possibly concerned bloggers which included some prominent Singaporean citizen bloggers. With the exception of World Without War, who has kindly posted my letter on their blog, I have yet received any replies from any of the parties.

There'll surely be some who might be wondering if i'm one of the prominent bloggers mentioned. (Yes these are very petty issues compared to the crisis which is happening but unfortunately there are very petty individuals out there who will rather nitpick on such stuff) So to those nitpickers, here's my answer(s). I'm hardly a prominent blogger. In fact, i don't even come close to being prominent. So no i didn't receive any email.

I created a post, and saved it as a draft, when i first read his open letter but I didn't get round to publishing it. Among other things, i was looking for related stuff about the crisis to go along with this post but eventually decided to keep it short and simple with this two-part video of a recent episode of an Al-Jazeera English programme, Inside Story, about the Gaza humanitarian crisis. You can watch these and other videos of this crisis at their youtube channel.