Alhamdullilah! Maybe it will garner more attention and become more acknowledged
now when Israelis say it. Even though Muslims, Palestinians and concerned
humanitarians have been up in arms screaming to the world about this disaster
happening in Gaza all along it didn't seem to warrant much attention. Maybe now
that some decent Israelis have joined the band wagon people will start paying
attention.
It is ashame that things have to work that way.
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EC_div.Section1 {page:Section1;} GAZA: AN ISRAELI CALL FOR URGENT
ACTION
We, the Israeli organizations signed below, deplore the decision by the
Israeli government to cut off vital supplies of electricity and fuel (and
therefore water, since the pumps cannot work), as well as essential foodstuffs,
medicines and other humanitarian supplies to the civilian population of Gaza.
Such an action constitutes a clear and unequivocal crime against humanity.
Prof. John Dugard, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the
Palestinian Territories, called the Israeli governments actions serious war
crimes for which its political and military officials should be prosecuted and
punished. The killing of more than 40 civilians this past week violates, he
said, the strict prohibition on collective punishment contained in the Fourth
Geneva Convention. It also violates one of the basic principles of
international humanitarian law that military action must distinguish between
military targets and civilian targets. Indeed, the very legal framework
invoked by the Israeli government to carry out this illegal and immoral act
declaring Gaza a hostile entity within a conflict short of war has
absolutely no standing in international law.
We call on the Secretary General of the UN, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, to lead the
Security Council to a decisive decision to end the siege on Gaza when it meets
in emergency session on Wednesday.
We call on the governments of the world, and in particular the American
government and the European Parliament, to censure Israels actions and, in
light of recent attempts to revive the diplomatic process, to end all attacks
on civilians, including the continuing demolition of Palestinian homes at an
alarming rate.
We call upon the Jews of the world in whose name the Israeli government
purports to speak, and upon their rabbis and communal leaders in particular, to
speak out unequivocally against this offense to the very moral core of Jewish
values.
And we call upon the peoples of the world to let their officials and leaders
know of their repudiation of this cruel, illegal and immoral act an act that
stands out in its cruelty even in an already oppressive Israeli Occupation.
We condemns attacks on all civilians, and we acknowledge the suffering of the
residents of Sderot. Still, those attacks do not justify the massive
disproportionality of Israeli sanctions over a million and half civilians of
Gaza, in particular in light of Israels oppressive 40 year occupation. Such
violations of international law by a government are especially egregious and
must be denounced and punished if the very system of human rights and
international law is to be preserved.
The Israeli governments decision to punish Gazas civilian population, with
all the human suffering that entails, constitutes State Terrorism against
innocent people. Only when Israeli policy-makers are held accountable for their
actions and international law upheld will a just peace be possible in the
Middle East.
The Alternative Information Center * Bat Tsafon * Gush Shalom * The
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) * Physicians for Human
Rights * Coalition of Women for Peace
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