Yahoo! News - Israel Demands Withdrawal of Food Report: "Palestinians had been 'reduced to begging' by Israeli security measures.
'There is a permanent, grave violation of the right to food by the occupying forces. There is a catastrophic humanitarian situation, and really it is absurd,' he said at the time.
'Markets don't function, peasants don't go to the field, and they are humiliated in a very, very shocking way.' "