[ 12/03/2010 - 08:31 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- MP Jamal al-Khudari, chairman of the Popular Committee Against the Siege (PCAS), and thousands of Palestinians and foreign sympathisers on Thursday evening lit a thousand candles to mark a thousand days of siege on the Gaza Strip.
Thousands of Gazans participated in the rally which took place at unknown soldier square in Gaza city, the candles formed the figure (1000), while many participants carried pictures of victims of the siege.
Children of "Baladna Centre" performing plays about the siege and its effects, especially on children.
Khudari, for his part, said: "After a thousand days of siege, a thousand days of perseverance .. we light a thousand candles in the face of a thousand days of darkness," stressing that each day of siege on Gaza was equivalent to a thousand days of suffering of patients, farmers, labourers, fishermen and students, men, women and children across the social strata.
He added that when Palestinians light candles, it is an expression of hope and to urge the world to move to protect Gaza from the ongoing aggression.
He called for a change of the European official position on the siege and for European countries to pressure Israeli into lifting the oppressive siege.
He expressed gratitude to all those behind popular and parliamentary efforts to end the siege on the Gaza Strip.
PCAS is also organising a big rally on Sunday opposite the Beit Hanoun crossing in the northern Gaza Strip.
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