[WCUSP] Fwd: "Cutting off Gaza" - P+P, 31 October 2007

[yvonne simmons]

While other countries are protesting the inhumanity of
Israel cutting of electricity to Gaza the US
government is doing nothing as usual about the
cokkective punishment. In peace Yvonne. 
--- Palestine and Peace <digest at anti-bias.com> wrote:

> From: "Palestine and Peace" <digest at anti-bias.com>
> To: <digest at anti-bias.com>
> Subject: "Cutting off Gaza" - P+P, 31 October 2007
> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:29:32 +1100
> 
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> Dear Sir or Madam
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> This week, Israel's defence minister Barak announced
> the onset of punitive
> restrictions on electricity and fuel supply to the
> Hamas-controlled Gaza
> Strip. The IDF has put the restrictions into effect,
> and they have been
> observed by both Palestinian and international
> organizations.
> 
>  
> 
> The restrictions are officially a response to
> ongoing assaults on Israeli
> communities proximate to Gaza by Palestinian
> militants armed with home-made
> rockets and mortars. Rocket attacks killed 2
> Israelis earlier this year, and
> continue to cause occasional damage and injury, to
> both Israeli and
> Palestinian civilians.
> 
>  
> 
> However, criticism of the restrictions, from large
> parts of the
> international community, and from numerous sources
> within Israel including
> its high court, suggests they contravene Israel's
> humanitarian obligations
> as an occupying power under international law.
> Israel's government has so
> far insisted that 'humanitarian' fuel and
> electricity supplies will not be
> interrupted. 
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> 
> Further criticism has identified the likelihood that
> the restrictions, which
> punish all in Gaza, will only empower the extremists
> they are intended to
> target.
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> 
> The digest is attached as a PDF. Please forward it
> on to anyone you think
> might benefit from having it.
> 
>  
> 
> As always, I look forward to your comments and
> suggestions.
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> Yours sincerely, 
> 
>  
> 
> Ric Curnow
> 
> Anti-Bias Pty Ltd
> 
> 6
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> 


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