July.1.2006
Press Release- University Teachers' Association-Palestine
END THE ASSAULT ON GAZA AND RELEASE PRISONERS
The University Teachers' Association condemns in the strongest terms
the Israeli war crimes committed against our people in the Gaza
Strip. We call on the international community and the Arab and
Islamic worlds, to take up their responsibility to protect the
Palestinian people from this heinous aggression and immediately
terminate the continuing Israeli
policy of collective punishment. Nothing whatsoever justifies the
Israeli savagery, including the severing of access to the water and
electricity supply to 1.3 million people.
Since Tuesday, June 27, 2006, Israel has destroyed vital bridges,
water and electricity stations. As a consequence, more than
two-thirds of the population have been denied access to water and
electricity. Children, the sick and elderly are the first to be
affected. Given that it is the height of summer in Gaza and
temperatures are in the region of 30-35 degrees:
Food, as scarce as it is, cannot be preserved;
People are already experiencing severe dehydration due to lack of water;
There is a an increasing threat of the spread of disease because of
damage to the sewage system.
Israel has also arrested more than 64 elected Palestinian
Legislative Council members, city mayors and cabinet ministers. The
Palestinian people had already been under siege for the past few
months as collective punishment for exercising their democratic
choice in elections in January 2006. Israel has turned the Gaza
Strip into the largest concentration camp with the largest
population of prisoners in the world and called it "withdrawal". The
international conspiracy of silence towards the genocidal war taking
place against the 1.3 million civilians in Gaza indicates complicity
in these war crimes.
Gaza University Teachers' Association calls upon the international
community to demand that the rogue State of Israel end its siege and
compensate for the destruction of life and infrastructure that it
has visited upon the Palestinian people. We also call upon all
Palestine solidarity groups and all international civil society
organizations to demand:
- An end to the siege that has been imposed on the Palestinian
people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a result of their exercise
of democratic choice.
- The protection of civilian lives and property, as stipulated in
International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law
such as The Fourth Geneva Convention.
- The immediate release of all political prisoners, including all
elected representatives of the Palestinian people.
- That Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip and West Bank be
provided with financial and material support to cope with the
immense hardship that they are experiencing
-An end to occupation, Apartheid and other war crimes.
-Immediate reparations and compensation for all destruction carried
out by the Israeli Occupation Forces in the Gaza Strip, including
psychological counselling for the collective mental trauma of
Palestinian civilians.
For Comments contact:
Dr Abu Ala'a, Gaza Strip, + 972 599 441766
Dr Asaad Abu Sharekh, Gaza Strip, + 972 599 322636
Dr Ayoub Othman, + 972 599 412 826
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