Gush Shalom on the Israeli Plans for Gaza Siege

Milk powder, toys and cancer patients...

25/10/07

The cutting of electricity and fuel " further exacerbation of the cruel
siege on Gaza.

Baraks decision comes on top of the denial of milk powder to babies,
toys to children and vital medical treatment to cancer patients.

The shooting of quassams cannot be a reason for denial of human rights
" ceasefire can and should be achieved with Hamas.

The decision to cut off the supply of electricity and fuel to the Gaza
Strip, taken today by the leader of the Israeli Labour Party who in
practice leads the extreme right, is a further exacerbation of the
cruel siege which the state of Israel is already imposing for many
months on the population of the Gaza Strip.

Ehud Baraks inhuman decision is hardly surprising, following his
prolonged orchestrating of a siege which led to an almost complete
paralysing of economic activity in the Gaza Strip, where some eighty
percent of the population have fallen below the poverty line. Among
other things, this siege includes a prohibition on the entry of milk
powder for babies and toys for children, and the denial of vital
medical treatment to cancer patients. Only in the past few days, this
has led to the death of Nemer Mohammed Salim Shuhaiber, 77-year old
Gazan to whom IDF soldiers at the Erez Checkpoint denied passage on his
way to medical treatment.

The shooting of Quassam missiles cannot be an excuse for such a severe
collective punishment imposed on a a million and half inhabitants, and
which constitutes a severe violation of human rights and international
law. Such Human Rights violations are incompatible with the State of
Israels claim to be part of the enlightened democratic world and to
demand, for example, preferential trade relations with the European
Union.

Had the Government of Israel been truly concerned for the suffering of
the inhabitants of bombed Sd*****, the way is wide open to achieve a
ceasefire agreement with Hamas " as Ismail Haniya offered several
times, and repeated it today. Such an agreement could included the end
of the siege and of armed attacks of all kinds, on both sides of the
Gaza border.

Contact: Adam Keller, Gush Shalom Spokesperson: adam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 on the cir***stances of Nemer Mohammed Salim Shuhaiber ~s
death, due to denial of medical treatment:
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=23031

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