Sunday 20 June 2010

European working group meets to discuss ways of lifting Gaza siege

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Hebrew radio reported that the European working group assigned to follow up the plan to lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip held its first meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on Saturday.

The radio said that the attendees in this meeting agreed to send a European political mission to the occupied Palestinian lands soon to find out and assess the situation in Gaza.

It quoted a European diplomatic source as saying that the working group discussed the need to develop a specific list of goods and commodities that will be banned entry instead of a list of things that will be allowed into Gaza.

The meeting also addressed the possibility of sending again European observers to the Rafah border crossing and a naval force to watch the maritime traffic into and from Gaza.

In another context, a scientific study issued by the Arab institute of research and studies and compiled by researcher Sameh Al-Wadiyah said that the Palestinian cause is not short of legal texts that clearly emphasize its justice or of the international condemnation against Israel's ongoing violations.

The study underlined that the Palestinian people and their cause needs only international action that could protect them against Israel's crimes.

It stressed that the international inaction, which it described as "collusion" and not as vulnerability or impotence, constitutes a powerful motive for Israel to commit more crimes against the Palestinian people, adding the international community makes decisions of a non-binding nature against Israel.

The study also criticized the recommendations of Goldstone commission which classified the resistance activities as war crimes and crimes against humanity, affirming that this classification is not compatible with the principles of the UN and the provisions of international law that guaranteed the peoples' right to resistance as a means to dispose of colonial entities.

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