Tutu asks Hamas to halt rocket fire

Gaza City - Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu urged a senior Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip overnight to put an end to rocket attacks by militant groups against Israel. Archbishop Tutu, who leads a UN fact-finding mission to Hamas-run Gaza, also said he was moved to tears by the ''unacceptable'' situation in the Palestinian territory that is under a tight Israeli blockade[?]. (Snip) The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town was in Gaza on a UN fact-finding mission into the killing of 19 Palestinian civilians in a 2006 Israeli artillery attack.

[ 'asks' Hamas to stop the daily firing of rockets at civilians? -- Correction: Israel isn't blockading Gaza, but defending it's own borders from suicide TRUCKS loaded with TONS of explosives; Gaza is free to import all the assistance it chooses from Egypt -- if their fellow Arabs chose to help them, but they decline: there wouldn't be a "unacceptable situation" for the UN to complain about if the vast, rich, Arab nations pooled resources to help their 'brothers'. Q: when is there going to be a UN 'fact finding mission' into Palestinians' daily assault on Israel? UNsalvagable - worse than useless - this is how the situation has festered for over 70 years...]

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