GAZA, (PIC)-- MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of popular committee against the siege, and the government committee against the siege issued two separate statements on Tuesday appreciating the letter sent by 54 American congressmen to president Barack Obama regarding the Gaza siege.
The lawmaker said that pressures on the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) should not stop but rather must expand.
The government committee, for its part, said that the letter though not enough was still appreciated especially when the American administration is the main supporter of the IOA.
It said that the West is now convinced that the IOA siege and starvation with international collusion and American backing had failed.
The congressmen asked Obama to pressure the IOA into lifting the siege on Gaza.
[ 26/01/2010 - 10:59 AM ]
WASHINGTON, (PIC)-- Members of the American Congress have asked president Barack Obama to pressure Israel to lift the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip for almost four years.
A statement signed by 54 congressmen said that the siege was impeding relief agencies from helping the citizens and providing their basic needs.
The signatories of the statement broadcast by Sawa radio on Tuesday said that besieging the Strip at the pretext of barring "terrorist operations" constituted a kind of collective punishment for the entire population of the Strip.
The statement was also signed by a number of relief and human rights agencies.
The signatories praised Obama's decision to allocate 300 million dollars for the reconstruction of Gaza after the latest Israeli war.
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