The UN Security Council unanimously ordered them to leave but Israel arrogantly refused to comply. Israel went on to repeatedly violate the Geneva Conventions, crucial international laws created because of the horrible experience of World War 2 Nazi occupations. Israel took Palestinian lands, displaced Palestinians, and built huge Jewish-only colonies. Israel drained the water resources and created segregated roads for Jews-only.

But Israel didnt like the result and imposed a financial and military siege on the occupied territories. Israel called on every country to cut-off even humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people. Israel is trying to blackmail Palestinians into abandoning the government they had freely and peacefully elected.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was the first government leader in the world to praise the Israelis for their siege and to do their bidding to impose an international financial blockade of the Palestinian government.

A recent Oxfam report describes the results of the siege: Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are suffering devastating humanitarian consequences as incomes plummet, debts mount and essential services face meltdown. Oxfam found that 46% of Palestinians now do not have enough food to meet their needs; that the number of people in deep poverty (defined as living on less than 50 cents a day) nearly doubled in 2006 to over one million people most of them women and children.