Israeli blockade and military escalations on Gaza are real war crimes, says Abu Zuhri

[ 30/10/2007 - 05:25 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, described the continuation of the Israeli economic siege and military escalation against the Gaza Strip as "real war crimes" and explicit violation of human rights, calling on the international community to assume its humanitarian responsibilities towards the Palestinian people.

Abu Zuhri revealed in a press interview that the caretaker government and Hamas leaders have conducted lately various contacts with Arab and Western countries, pointing out that all Arab countries and many western sides are greatly sympathetic with the Gaza people who are living in tragic conditions resulting from the escalating Israeli siege.

The Hamas spokesman underlined that the reality have proven that the option of boycotting Hamas is useless and not going to eliminate Hamas from the Palestinian political scene, expressing hope that the Arab and western sympathy would turn into concrete actions to help the Gaza people.

For his part, Taher Annono, the spokesman for the caretaker government, described the Israeli resolution to slash the fuel allocations to the Gaza Strip as part of "organized terrorism" against the Palestinian people in order to suppress them into accepting the Zio-American dictates as a prelude to the autumn conference.

In a statement to the Quds press, Annono called on the international community to assume its responsibility in this regard and to provide one and a half million Palestinian citizens in Gaza with the basic components of life, pointing out that they are living in a big prison.

He also urged the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference to take a historic step and break the siege imposed on the Palestinian people through turning the Rafah border crossing to a Palestinian- Egyptian crossing.

In another context, Shlomi Aldad, an Israeli reporter working for the Israeli 10th TV channel, pointed out that the Israeli decision to slash the fuel supplies to Gaza made the Gaza people direct their outrage at the PA chief and the Israeli government rather than towards Hamas government.

"The Gaza people are looking to Ismail Haniya, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar and the other Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip as heroes confronting the whole world for the benefit of the Palestinian people," the Israeli reporter said.

He added that whoever believes that Hamas may lose its control over the Gaza Strip soon and that Abbas would return to control the Gaza Strip, was not reading the map of the region well.

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