|
Palestine minister condemns silence
over Israeli massacre in Gaza
BEIRUT (PL). –This Sunday, Palestine Negotiations
Minister Saeb Erekat condemned the international
community’s silence regarding the Israeli military
operation Days of Penitence, which killed around 70
civilians in the Gaza Strip.
According to the radio station Voice of Palestine,
quoted by Erekat, the lack of response from the
nations of the world is equivalent to giving the
green light to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
to continue his heavy-handed policy against the
Palestinian population.
Zionist violence will only aggravate the situation
in the region and hamper any efforts to implement a
peace plan in the Middle East, the official added.
Medical sources, cited by the same radio station,
reported that the military operation Days of
Penitence, which started last Wednesday, has already
killed 68 and injured over 250 people.
Today, Israeli drone combat planes fired missiles
that killed three Palestine civilians allegedly
involved in the resistance and injured another two
citizens in the city of Beit Janun.
In
Yabalia, an Israeli tank opened fire on a house,
killing two Palestinians and injuring five. Hours
earlier, two Palestinian citizens were also
slaughtered in this city.
The
eighth victim was the target of a missile fired from
an Israeli combat helicopter flying over the Yabalia
refugee camp.
This
Sunday, Israeli soldiers wounded 22 people who were
protesting in the village of Beit Awa at the
construction of the wall sealing off Palestinian
communities.
The
Israelis repressed over 400 protestors, included
Israeli pacifists, with tear gas and rubber bullets.
The
segregationist wall will seize several areas of the
Palestinian West Bank, whose population, primarily
dedicated to agriculture, will lose 60% of their
arable land.
The
imposing construction, already 150 kilometers long,
is eight meters high with watchtowers every 300
meters, two-meter deep ditches, and barbed wire.
Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian National
Authority, qualified this work, expressly designed
to violate the human rights of the Palestinian
people, a crime against humanity.
|
