ALISON WEIR: EGYPT, THE US AND THE ISRAEL LOBBY  http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2011/02/egypt-the-us-and-the-israel-lobby/

In recent years, Mubarak has collaborated with Israel in closing off the Gaza Strip, largely imprisoning 1.5 million men, women, and children, resulting in a humanitarian disaster in which children suffer malnutrition, stunting, and trauma, and 300 Gazan patients have died through lack of essential medical supplies or being denied exit passes for medical care.

[any one remember obama's cairo speech?he stated mubarak was an instrument of peace in region and middle east peace process...]