[ 04/01/2010 - 05:17 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC), has described the underground steel wall being built by Egypt at its borders with Gaza Strip as the "death wall".
He charged in a press conference on Monday held by the association of Palestinian scholars at the PLC premises in Gaza that the wall aims at besieging and starving the Palestinian people.
Bahar appealed to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to issue immediate orders to halt construction of the wall and to open the Rafah land crossing, adding that the steel wall is a legal, national, humanitarian and religious violation.
He underlined that Gaza would never pose a security threat to Egypt but rather the "Zionist entity is the one threatening Egypt's security".
Media reports said that Egypt completed five kilometers of the steel wall or almost 50% of the total length of the Egyptian borders with Gaza Strip.
MP Mansour: Closure of Shujaia crossing, steel wall execution sentence
[ 04/01/2010 - 05:13 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)-- MP Mona Mansour has condemned the Israeli decision to close the Shujaia crossing (Nahal Oz) with Gaza once and for all, describing it as "repressive".
Mansour in a press release on Monday said that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) every day adopts new measures to strangle the Gaza Strip and the closure of Shujaia crossing is one of those measures.
The concurrence of the closure of the crossing with the building of the steel wall on the part of Egypt turned Gaza into a big prison encircled by walls and closed crossings, she said, adding that such measures were tantamount to a capital punishment against the Gaza people.
The lawmaker asked for serious moves by human rights groups and the world community to end the Gaza siege.
For his part, Ziyad Al-Zaza, the deputy premier and national economy minister in Gaza, described the Israeli closure of the crossing as "terrorist and arbitrary".
He added that the closure of the crossing, which he said was practically closed since last October, would negatively affect the economic activities in the Strip.
Independent MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular anti siege committee, said that the closure only tightened the economic blockade on the beleaguered Strip.
He charged that the IOA was planning to merge the Gaza crossings, which were only partially operating over the past four years, into one crossing instead of expanding and opening them fully.
Raed Fattuh, the coordinator for entry of goods into Gaza, said that the IOA decided to close the crossing permanently for "security reasons".
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