1 in 4 Israeli below poverty line

Zionist regime spends millions of dollars to pour bombs on Gazan civilians and sit back to watch one fourth of its people live below poverty line, a new report says.

Zionist regime's National Insurance Institute in a semi-annual poverty report said poor in Israel became poorer in the second half of 2007 and the first half of 2008.

It goes on to add that 1 in 4 Israeli lives below poverty line representing 1.63 million people, 777,400 of them children.

A recent report in Israeli Haaretz website said the percentage of unemployed poor families rose in relation to the previous report for 2007, from 69 percent to 71.4 percent.