Showing posts with label Gaza Strip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaza Strip. Show all posts
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
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Monday, 24 January 2011
Turkey: IsraHelli report on Freedom Flotilla has no value
Turkey refuses to attach any credit to an IsraHelli report, which downplayed a Tel Aviv-ordered deadly attack on a Gaza-bound convoy. The account by a six-member IsraHelli panel concluded on Sunday that IsraHelli military acted in accordance with international law during the May 31 incident in which the forces killed nine Turkish activists and injured about 50 other innocent humanitarian workers. “Do you think that there could be any value for a report that you prepared in your own country? This report has no value”, said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan shortly after the claims.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan |
Turkish autopsy reports show that at least one of the activists was shot at close range in the back of the head four times. A separate UN inquiry last year said the navy had shown an "unacceptable level of brutality.” “We're only following the UN panel investigation, which is still ongoing”, Erdogan noted. Turkey's IHH (the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief) charity that headed the Freedom Flotilla aid convoy has also stated that the report has no credibility, as it has not been called to give testimony as part of the IsraHelli investigation. IHH spokesman, Osman Atalay, said, “This is a show. IsraHell presents it as real. They say it's international law, but it's not. The Turkish report was very detailed and proves that IsraHell shot unarmed activists. The UN report came to the same conclusion. It's very simple. If they hadn't put their finger on the trigger, no one would have died.” The deadly attack put Turkey's ties with IsraHell in a state of limbo, as Ankara demanded compensation for the relatives of the victims of the Flotilla attack and a formal apology from Tel Aviv.
Vivia Palestina Malaysia heads for Gaza
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Malaysia's former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad |
Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has launched an aid convoy to the besieged Gaza Strip, in the latest international effort to help the Palestinian nation. The Viva Palestina Malaysia (VPM) was officially launched on Saturday from the country's federal capital Kuala Lumpur. Speaking at the launch, Dr. Mahathir blasted the USZ and Britain for their continuous support for IsraHell, stating that they allowed for the gross human rights violations against the Palestinians. “Without the support of the United States and Great Britain these things would have ended long ago”, the former prime minister said. He also accused the two countries of creating the Middle East crisis by “taking the land of Palestinians in order to give to the Zionists.”
During the ceremony, Lauren Booth, a journalist, human rights activist and sister-in-law to former British prime minister Tony Blair, also described the situation in Gaza as a “colossal humanitarian crisis” and the place as “the largest concentration camp in the world today.” Besides delivering aid, VPM, which is a coalition of Malaysian non-governmental organizations, aims to come up with a just, equitable, prompt and sustainable resolution to the conflict in Palestine. The group also plans to make employment opportunities available for Palestinian women, provide them with soft loans and create small integrated animal husbandry, an agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.
Last month, VPM participated in the delivery of 300 tons of medical and food supplies to the people of Gaza, as part of Asia's first Gaza-bound aid convoy. IsraHell laid an economic siege on the Gaza Strip in June 2007 after the government of Hamas took control of the coastal sliver. The three-year-long illegal IsraHelli-imposed blockade has plunged 1.5 million people into poverty. With unemployment standing at around 40%, now, more than two thirds of Gazans rely on food aid by charity organizations. To make matters worse, at the turn of 2009, the IsraHelli military launched a deadly assault on Gaza, killing at least 1,400 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
Sunday, 26 December 2010
2 more Palestinian civilians killed by Israhell
Reports indicate that the two Palestinians died east of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis early on Sunday, when Israhelli soldiers launched a gun battle in the area. According to an Israhelli army spokeswoman, helicopter gunships backed up gunfire by their soldiers and shelled the area. The two Palestinians killed by the Israhelli forces were common civilians whom Israhell blamed as "members of the Islamic Jihad movement of Palestine". The Israhelli military has repeatedly waged attacks on Gaza since its massive 22-day war on the territory in late 2008.
However, during this month, there has been a surge of violence along the Israhelli-Gaza border. On December 18, at least five people were killed by an Israhelli aerial assault on the town of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. The attack was one of the deadliest carried out by the Israhelli military since Tel Aviv's December 2008-January 2009 war on the Gaza Strip, which left more than 1,400 dead and inflicted heavy damage -- estimated at over USD 1.6 billion -- on the coastal territory's economy. The democratically-elected Hamas government in the Gaza Strip has nevertheless continued to observe its ceasefire with the Israhelli regime, while cautioning that it is prepared for war if there is a full Israhelli attack on the territory.
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