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World marks Gaza assault in solidarity with strip
[Al Arabiya Latest] From London to Sydney people prepared to stand in solidarity with the Gaza Strip as Sunday marked a year since Israel launched its deadly air, land and sea assault on the impoverished territory.

As politicians failed to bring those responsible for the mass destruction and death of more than 1, 500 Palestinians to justice, advocacy groups urged people to demonstrate to show the residents of Gaza they were not forgotten.

" It is barbaric that the Israeli government can lay siege to 1.5 million people in Gaza without international governments taking action to force Israel to abide by international law "
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Fresh off the Christmas holidays, London-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) said it was staging a demonstration outside the British capital's Israeli embassy and said candlelight vigils would be held across the United Kingdom.

"The protest is simply to remind the British public what happened a year ago and to remind people that Israel still operates a deadly siege over Gaza," Betty Hunter, the general secretary of PSC, told Al Arabiya.

Hunter said PSC expected a few hundred people to attend the protest and said the group was calling on the British government to take practical steps to end the suffering of the people of Gaza.

"It is barbaric that the Israeli government can lay siege to 1.5 million people in Gaza without international governments taking action to force Israel to abide by international law," Hunter said.

"The British government must force Israel to end its siege, implement the Goldstone Report, and bring Israeli war criminals to justice."


Posted by: Fred 2009-12-28
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