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NPK-info 29-06-2006 - Nederlands Palestina Komitee / www.palestina-komitee.nl
Today in Palestine! http://www.theheadlines.org
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ORGANIZATIONS AT UN CONFERENCE CONDEMN ISRAELI ASSAULT
ON GAZA
Bericht d.d. 28-6-2006 hierna.
Actueel
- Palestinians and Israel declare the battle is on,
June 28, 2006; Joharah Baker
http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10656&CategoryId=3
- Palestinians, Israel and the Quartet: Pulling Back from
the Brink
Middle East Report N°54, 13 June 2006
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4171
- Miko Peled: Thirty-Nine Years of Denial, 20-6-2006
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-06200645811.htm
- Palestine's "other" War, June 20, 2006; Joharah
Baker
http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10590&CategoryID=3
- The Full Text of the National Conciliation Document
of the Prisoners; May 26, 2006
By Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails (representing
FATEH, HAMAS, Islamic Jihad, PFLP, and DFLP)
http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10371&CategoryId=32
- Hamas PM Haniyeh: Retreat to 1967 borders will bring
peace, Danny Rubinstein
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/718678.html
- The "Convergence Plan" Map - reframing the
Palestinian ghettos
Maps, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, May
17th, 2006
http://stopthewall.org/maps/1159.shtml
- The MERCOSUR and Apartheid Israel – an Alliance
stained with Palestinian blood
Analysis, The Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign,
June 13th, 2006
http://stopthewall.org/analysisandfeatures/1189.shtml
Boektip:
BLOOD AND RELIGION, The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic
State, Jonathan Cook
http://www.plutobooks.com/cgi-local/nplutobrows.pl?chkisbn=0745325556&main=
NPK/WL, 29-6-2006
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ORGANIZATIONS AT UN CONFERENCE CONDEMN ISRAELI ASSAULT
ON GAZA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
28 June 2006
For contact:
Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies (Washington DC)
Adi Dagan, Coalition of Women for Peace (Israel)
Chris Doyle, Council for Arab-British Understanding (London, UK)
Mobile numbers for all: 0044-7968-040-281 or 001-514-577-3469
AUSTRIA
Meeting in Vienna under the auspices of the United Nations, the
dozens of civil society and non-governmental organizations of
the International Coordinating Network on Palestine (ICNP) condemns
in the harshest terms the overnight Israeli attacks in the Gaza
Strip.
These attacks represent a massive collective punishment against
the 1.3 million people of Gaza, and thus under international law
constitute a war crime, violating Israel’s obligations under
the Geneva Conventions. The deliberate targeting and destruction
of the main electrical generating plant, especially at the height
of summer and at a moment in which the absolute siege of Gaza
means there are virtually no fuel stocks available for local generators,
mean that hospitals and patients at home needing electricity for
insulin or other refrigerated medicines face disaster. The deliberate
destruction of the already-eroded water system means that water
is scarcer than ever. The humanitarian situation is catastrophic.
But the even greater catastrophe is political. Certainly it is
true that these attacks ensure that a negotiated safe return of
the captured Israeli soldier now becomes almost impossible. But,
as ICNP co-chair Phyllis Bennis said, “far more significant
is the reality that the re-occupation of Gaza reverses any possibility
of new Israeli-Palestinian negotiations based on the recent Palestinian
unity moves. As long as the Israeli occupation forces continue
to surround and control Gaza (as well as the West Bank and Arab
East Jerusalem), and as long as the United States continues its
uncritical financial and political backing of Israel’s occupation,
and as long as the United Nations, Europe and the rest of the
international community stand silent, these humanitarian catastrophes
and the civilian deaths that will inevitably accompany them, will
continue.”
The ICNP urges
* The international community, through the United Nations, must
call for an immediate end to the Israeli assault on Gaza and for
a full withdrawal of Israeli forces.
* Israel must provide immediate compensation, paid in full to
Palestinians for reconstruction of damaged electrical and water
systems, and must ensure access into Gaza of all necessary personnel
and equipment for such rebuilding.
* Israel must immediately remove all checkpoints within Gaza and
reopen all Gaza’s borders (with Israel and Egypt), and allow
free flow of people and goods.
* All political prisoners and prisoners of war on both sides should
be released, with particular urgency for the women and children
prisoners in Israeli prisons.
* We agree with UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights John Dugard's
call for the international community to initiate a new creative
diplomatic process to enable Israel and the Palestinians to resume
negotiations towards ending occupation and ensuring a just peace
in the region.
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