[ 12/03/2010 - 08:06 PM ]
AMSTERDAM, (PIC)-- The Palestinian forum in Holland on Thursday condemned the unjust international silence towards the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip that left nearly 1.5 million people living there in extremely harsh conditions.
In a statement it issued in this regard and published by Quds Press, the forum said that the passage of 1,000 days on the siege on Gaza constitutes flagrant evidence of the international community regression on its humanitarian covenants and agreements.
It added that the international criminal court (ICC) defined war crimes as the behavior that imposes living conditions on certain people that would partially and fully destroy their lives, explaining further that article eight of the basic charter defined war crimes as “intentionally starving human beings or blocking food from reaching to them.
“Indeed, ethnic cleansing and war crimes were committed [by the Israelis] against the people of Gaza but the countries that signed those covenants remained passive as the siege killed around 500 Palestinian patients who could not travel abroad for medical treatment”, the forum said in the statement.
Furthermore, the forum called on the Egyptian leadership to carryout its national and Arab duties in saving the people of Gaza who are threatened by the nightmare of death everyday the siege remained imposed.
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