Following a year and three months of blockade of the Gaza Strip, reaching indiscriminately to one and half million people, Israel is bombing for a fourth day this population, having made so far 360 deaths, in addition to nearly 2,000 wounded. They have bombed schools, barracks, schools, universities, prisons, mosques and residential neighborhoods. Because of the blockade, Gaza does not exist in ability to care for the wounded and in a swath of 360 km square, surrounded by Israel, no place to hide.
This action constitutes a war crime and indisputably a crime against humanity. It is very hard to hear, by Israeli officials that with such crimes is to bring peace. On the contrary, such large atrocities, the message of Israel to the Palestinians is the hopeless war.
All Palestinians, at this point, regardless of political affiliations, we join our people in Gaza and feel with them the same pain and indignation, that words fail to express properly. Gaza is part of Palestine. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Hamas movement yesterday a meeting at the Presidential Office, in order to unify all the Palestinian forces against the occupation and stop the Israeli aggression on Gaza. The basic principles for a truce are an immediate end to the aggression, lifting the siege on Gaza and the protection of Palestinian civilians. The Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank must be protected by international troops in the criminal actions of the Israeli army of occupation settler attacks and Israeli threats to cause a new holocaust in Gaza, or Shoah, in Hebrew, which obviously were true.
The Palestinian claim was never silenced by massacres and bombs. With the use of brutal force, Israel is heading for a dead end, which will no longer find no way of negotiation or partners with whom to negotiate, as their actions show with clarity that there will peace with the Palestinian people, and yes only a total submission requirement of the Palestinians and acceptance by us of the occupation and exile.
History has shown every time that the peoples struggling for their freedom and national independence against occupying forces have finally emerge victorious. From the Palestinian side, we hope that this victory is achieved without costing a bloody one. Above all, we must prevent Palestinian blood be used as a currency of exchange in the Israeli presidential campaigns.
is time to stop this barbarism and to compel Israel to abide by the rules of international law and humanitarian law and the relevant UN resolutions on Palestine, the only way to achieve a just peace.
Buenos Aires, December 30, 2008
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