First Anniversary of the Gaza Genocide

Monday, 28 December 2009, 10:09 am
Press Release: Palestine Human Rights Campaign

Press Release on the First Anniversary of the Gaza Genocide

26 December 2009

The Palestine Human Rights Campaign (PHRC) of Auckland, New Zealand strongly supports the recent call of former US President Jimmy Carter that “Gaza must be built now.” Carter also declared that "the human suffering demands urgent relief".

The PHRC believes that the 4 year old and continuing siege of Gaza by Israel and Egypt, with the abject support of the United States, is genocide in process. The Gaza Strip is cut off from the rest of the world. Even international humanitarian aid is being prevented from entering the Strip by both Egypt and Israel. International aid agencies have demanded that Israel allow aid in, both food items and building materials. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an annual report on November 16: “The Government of Israel should allow unimpeded access to Gaza for humanitarian aid and the non-humanitarian goods needed for the reconstruction of properties and infrastructure,”

There are over fifty thousand Gazans living in tents or below destroyed buildings, the result of horrendous military action by Israel between late Dec 2008 and during Jan 2009. That action left over 1400 dead and more than 5000 Palestinians injured.

"It is difficult to tell what does the future hold for the Gaza community: imprisoned in one big ghetto and demonised while being starved. Israel’s action is a crime against humanity and it is obscene that the world community is silent about this human tragedy. More obscene is the 'outrage' expressed by some leading figures against arrest warrants for Israeli leaders responsible for war crimes commuted in Gaza as verified by a UN investigation."

PHRC holds the view that mass punishment is not working in Gaza. Hamas which was voted in by the Palestinians in fair elections in 2006 is getting stronger and popular as witnessed by Jimmy Carter. The proof of intentional genocide in Gaza by Israel is the fact that there is no land in the Strip that Israel covets and there is no hinterland, like Jordan, to which the Palestinians can be expelled. Egypt will not accept them either. Ethnic cleansing is ineffective here but starving people could do the trick for Israel.

Join us in support of the suffering people of Gaza

GAZA FREEDOM RALLY

QE2 SQUARE CNR CUSTOMS ST & QUEEN ST

Sunday Dec 27th 2009 at 2pm

ENDS

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