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The Palestine Monitor
A PNGO Information Clearinghouse
URGENT APPEAL
� Stop impending massacre in Gaza
At least 30 dead as Sharon re-engages Gaza
Friday, October 1, 2004
The Palestine Monitor urgently appeals to the international community to
intervene in the carnage being wrought on the civilian populations of Beit
Hanoun, Beit Lahiya and the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza
Strip.
More than 30 Palestinians, including several children, have been killed and
more than 130 wounded in army operations in Gaza over the last two days and
the Israeli offensive is almost certain to double this death toll if
immediate action is not taken to intercede.
The refugee camps in Gaza are the most densely populated areas in the world.
Jabaliya is the biggest and most densely populated Palestinian camp with
90.000 people living in an area of 3 km2. Such large scale and comprehensive
military operations employing heavy, imprecise weaponry such as tank shells
and missiles launched from overhead apache helicopters can only have
catastrophic outcomes on the huge civilian population.
Already on Thursday an Israeli tank shell reportedly killed seven
Palestinians near a school in Jabaliya, as Israeli forces thrust deep into
the densely populated camp. Palestinian witnesses said the dead from the
tank shell blast were all teenagers with no involvement in the fighting.
Another 6 people were killed during a wake when the house of those returning
from a funeral was shelled.
The operations taking place now are reminiscent of the devastating 2002
invasions of the West Bank. The re-occupation campaigns witnessed then are
once again clearly visible in Gaza rendering abundantly clear the lie behind
Sharon�s so called disengagement.
As Ariel Sharon has promised to widen operations in this open ended
offensive there are fears that an entire northern section of the Gaza Strip
could be wiped out. Last night the Israeli security cabinet was said to have
approved a plan for the IDF to take control of a nine-kilometer swathe of
northern Gaza up to the outskirts of Jabaliya demolishing the houses in
their path. All evidence on the ground would suggest Sharon is planning a
complete re-occupation.
For the several hundred thousand Palestinian unarmed, defenseless civilians
trembling in their homes awaiting their fate in such an onslaught these
fears were made real this morning as some 200 tanks, armored personnel
carriers and bulldozers were reportedly assembled along the northern and
eastern borders of the Gaza Strip.
The international community must act now to defend this civilian population
which stands no chance of defending itself against the might of the Israeli
army. The international community must speak up for those that do not have a
voice, that do not have an army or international protection, those that have
been imprisoned in sections of Gaza and have no where to run from what
awaits them.
The Palestine Monitor calls upon the international community to take urgent
action, to speak out against the Israeli massacre of a civilian population
and to demand that Israel is held to international law. We urge all
individuals and organizations to act immediately and contact the following
US, UN, UK, and European Union representatives.
United States Representatives
- President George Bush Jr.
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington DC 20500
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel. 202-456-1414
- Your member of Congress -- Call the Capitol switchboard toll-free on
1-800-839-5276 and ask to be connected to your member of Congress.
United Nations
- General Telephone: (212) 963-1234; Fax for Kofi Annan's office: (212)
963-7055; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Permanent Missions to the United Nations
European Union Representatives
- EU Presidency, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) for
the European Union Javier Solana -- Tel: +32 (0)2-285-6467 or +32
(0)476-93-6426; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UK Representatives
- UK Prime Minister Tony Blair -- E-mail or Fax via Downing Street website
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page848.asp
Letters of protest should be sent to:
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,
Office of the Prime Minister
3 Kaplan Street, P O Box 187
Jerusalem 91919, Israel
Telegram: Prime Minister, Jerusalem, Israel
Fax: +972 2 6705475
Telex: 25279 MPRES IL
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more information contact: The Palestine Monitor
+972 (0)2 298 5372 or +972 (0) 59254218
http://www.palestinemonitor.org
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