Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams, calls for lifting the siege on Gaza, international peace activists attacked by Israeli terrorist soldiers

Sinn Fein leader calls for lifting the siege on Gaza

[ 08/04/2009 - 04:48 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Gerry Adams, the leader of the Irish Sinn Fein party, on Wednesday called for lifting the siege on the Gaza Strip, expressing shock at the bulk of devastation in the beleaguered Strip.

Adams told a press conference after a tour in Ezbet Abed Rabbo in northern Gaza that what happened in Gaza was not correct, and added that the people of Gaza deserve to live in peace.

Israel should realize that the people of Gaza have rights, he added.

Adams held the world community responsible for the Gaza siege and destruction, adding that the siege should be lifted and all crossings opened for the free flow of goods and for the travel of sick Palestinians.

IOF soldiers fire at foreign solidarity activists

[ 08/04/2009 - 03:14 PM ]

KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)--

A group of international solidarity activists and journalists accompanying Palestinian farmers east of Khuza'a town in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday came under Israeli gunfire.

Local sources told the PIC reporter that the foreign team, including four members of the international solidarity movement (ISM), was touring the devastated areas east of Khuza'a near to the border fence with 1948 occupied Palestine when it came under gunfire from the Israeli side.

They added that an Israeli army jeep stopped and a number of soldiers jumped out of it and started shooting, but no one was hurt in the incident. The soldiers also called on the foreigners via loudspeakers to leave the area.

Eyewitnesses said that the continued shooting forced the ISM activists to withdraw from the area while chanting anti Israeli occupation slogans.

In the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces rounded up 17 Palestinians including 7 from Nablus city alone and its refugee camps.

The IOF command claimed that one of the detainees was a Hamas commander called Ahmed Sawalme, 38, who was taken from his home at the hands of IOF special forces before dawn Wednesday.

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