[WCUSP] More on Gaza

[Odile Hugonot Haber]

Dear All.

Good Thanks giving!

Although the occupation is the work of Israel and that Mubarak would
not want to
to be destabilising his country to a flood gate of Palestinians I want to make
you aware that there is also this letter.

Odile Hugonot Haber

There was also a letter of 50 Israeli activists to the Egyptian president
to open their side to Gaza. They told him that they gave up on their
own government and hope that he will open the gates on his side.

Please consider a letter to him too.

50 Israelis call upon Egyptian President Mubarak

Break the Siege, Open the Rafah Crossing

and you are asked to support the request

Fifty Israeli peace activists wrote a letter to Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak calling upon him to open the Rafah Crossing to movement of persons
and goods and thus break the Israeli siege.

"The situation in Gaza approaches humanitarian disaster of staggering
proportions;  Arms and explosives flow from Sinai to Gaza, while the border
remains sealed to civilian traffic and vital civilian supplies"

Your support can give this momentum; instructions how - in the end

Here follows the text of the press release, including  the letter:

Fifty Israeli peace and human rights activists have approached Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak, via the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv, calling upon
him to immediately open the Rafah Border Crossing between Egypt and the Gaza
Strip to free movement of persons and goods, and thus break the siege
imposed at the order of Defence Minister Barak, and which is pushing the
population of the strip over the edge of humanitarian disaster.
"We saw no choice but to take this step and approach the Egyptians directly.
This after the Defence Minister,  to whom the option of cutting Gaza's
electricity supplies was for the time being denied, found the horrible
substitute of drastically cutting the supply of vital foodstuffs.  Those who
don't raise their voices are accomplices. The government of Israel is
completely uncaring about the terrible suffering it is causing to a million
and half inhabitants of the Strip for whom it is responsible. It also does
want to understand what is said by its own military experts: that causing
this suffering does not in any way help the people of Sderot - on the
contrary, it increases and exacerbates the shooting of Quassam missiles.

We do not accept that the only choices left are to starve the inhabitants of
Gaza or to conquer the Strip at the cost of terrible bloodshed. There is
another way, the way of mutual ceasefire and negotiations which should
include all parts of the Palestinian people" say the intitiators of the
letter of the fifty.

 Here follows the letter


To


His Excellency  Muhammad Hosni Mubarak
President of the Arab  Republic of Egypt
Via The Egyptian Embassy, Tel Aviv