PLC calls for filing lawsuit against the steel wall built on Gaza borders

PIC

[ 23/12/2009 - 05:23 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian legislative council (PLC) on Wednesday called on the organization of the Islamic conference and international human rights organizations to file a lawsuit against the steel wall being built on the Palestinian-Egyptian borders for its violation of international law.

During an emergency session to discuss the implications of building a steel wall on Gaza borders, the PLC stressed the need to stage media campaigns illustrating the serious impacts of this wall on the lives of Gaza people.

In a statement, the PLC declared its intention to form a parliamentary committee to investigate the risks of building this wall.

The statement emphasized the keenness of the Palestinian people especially in Gaza on Egypt’s stability, security and territorial integrity, adding that Palestine is part and parcel of the Egyptian national security.

The statement also demanded the international community to assume its responsibilities and consider the recommendations of Goldstone’s report on Israeli war crimes in Gaza, which also criminalized the blockade and called for lifting it.

In the same context, the popular front for the liberation of Palestine called on the Egyptian leadership to hold a meeting with the Palestinian factions to discuss the issue of building a steel wall on Gaza borders.

The front warned that the construction of this wall would leave a deep scar unforgettable by the whole Palestinian people and would damage the good relations between the Palestinian factions and Cairo.

For its part, Masajdna Al-Daawiya network urged the Arab and Muslim nations to organize angry protests against the steel wall built by Egypt on its borders with Gaza, stressing that the building of this wall is religiously prohibited.

It also called on the religious, civil, legal and parliamentary institutions in Egypt to urgently move to stop the building of this wall that will sentence the entire Muslim people in Gaza to death.

For his part, Sheikh Hafiz Salama, the former leader of the popular resistance in Suez during war of October in 1973, deplored the Egyptian regime for building this wall, describing it as the dam of Gog and Magog mentioned in the holy Qur’an.

Salama condemned this move as a disgrace on the Egyptian regime, recalling the historical ties between Gazans and Egyptians and how Gaza was under the rule of Egypt before the war of June 1967.



 Uprooted Palestinian