Action Alert: Twenty-Five Things to Help Gaza
So far hundreds of civilians have been killed in Gaza. Five sisters in one family, four other children in another home, two children on a cart drawn by a donkey. Universities, colleges, police stations, roads, apartment buildings were all targeted. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian areas issued a statement that “The Israeli air-strikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war.”
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» 1 January 2009
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Time: 1 January 2009, 17:07
Egypt Blames Hamas For Violence in Gaza
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has made a public statement of Egypt’s assessment of where the blame for the current Gaza conflict resides and blame is being placed with Hamas and it’s leadership.
Egypt’s foreign minister said on Thursday that Hamas must ensure rocket fire stops in any truce deal to halt Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, criticizing the Palestinian group for giving Israel an excuse to launch the bombardment.
The problems Gheit appears to be referencing would be the daily Kassam rocket and mortar attacks which Hamas has allowed, encouraged and supported on the towns of Southern Israel. He criticized Hamas, saying Egypt had seen “the signals that Israel was determined to strike Hamas in Gaza for the past three months. They practically wrote it in the sky.”
“Such an outspoken complaint from Egypt to Hamas signals a significant deterioration in the working relationship between the Militant Hamas and Moderate Egypt.
While the Hamas leadership was safely tucked away in bunkers, the Hamas leadership had left the rank and file security personnel, police and public to their own devices and to protect themselves.
“Where are the Hamas leaders now, when the residents of Gaza are getting killed? All of Hamas’s leadership is in bunkers,” stated Muhammad Bassiouny
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