"Humanity is gone, smoked up in a gravity bong"-Immortal Technique

Only in Gaza does a dying cancer patient have to appeal to the High Court in order to leave for medical treatment:

GAZA, November 17, 2007 (WAFA)- A Palestinian patient died on Saturday of cancer disease due to the closure of crossings in the Gaza Strip, medical sources said.

They added that Nael al-Kurdi was prevented to travel abroad for treatment as Israeli authorities closed the crossings and barred him a permission. Al-Kurdi's health has been deteriorating quickly and died today at Hospital.

Al-Kurdi is the fifth citizen in the Gaza Strip who dies because of being banned leaving the Strip to receive medical treatment.

I can't imagine what Nael was feeling before he died. If we, the healthy people within Gaza already feel abandoned, then he must have been overwhelmed with hopelessness and abandonment, and finally quiet desperation as he wished for some sort of miracle.....but got nothing.

What has to happen for the world to realize the urgency of Gaza? How much more do the people of Gaza have to endure for the international community to stop and think for a brief second at the absurdity of caging an already occupied people in the world's largest open prison?