On October 7th of this year, Hamas launched a surprise attack against Israel.

And you might remember that almost immediately after that attack, about two days later,

the Israeli Defense Minister came out, and he announced a total blockade of the entire

Gaza Strip ahead of a ground invasion.

This meant that the fuel, the water, and the electricity were no longer available to

flow into the region.

Now for the ordinary Gaza citizen, meaning the mother, the kid, and the husband who runs

a little shop, this was a total disaster.

And internationally, we saw many news reports covering exactly that.

The effect that this blockade was having on ordinary people.

However, as important as it is to cover what's happening over in Gaza, well, there's

another blockade that's been ongoing for the entirety of the year, which has had no

media coverage at all.

That's because, despite a near total media blackout, over in the caucus region, 120,000

Armenian Orthodox Christians have been underblocked by their Muslim neighbors for pretty much

the entirety of the year 2023.

Specifically, for nine full months, these Armenian Christians were being quite literally

starved to death by blockade that was imposed on them by their neighbors, the government

of Azerbaijan.

The area where these Christians were blockaded was this right here, the Nagorno-Karabakh region,

or as the Armenians call it, the Artsakh region.

This is where tens of thousands of families were trapped and starved until finally.

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