26 may 2018
North Korea has condemned Israel’s use of violence against unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza, describing what happened with them as “brutal massacres.”
Kim Yong-nam, head of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, sent a message of sympathy to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, with the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper calling Israel’s actions as a “bloody suppression”.
The newspaper said that Yong-nam in the message expressed deep condolences to the victims and their families.
“He vehemently denounced Israel for its brutal massacres and indiscriminate use of force against peaceful demonstrators demanding their legitimate rights.”
He affirmed North Korea's unwavering support for and solidarity with the just cause of the Palestinian people and their struggle to build an independent state with east Jerusalem as its capital and obtain their inalienable legitimate rights.
North Korea backs Palestine in its dispute with Israel, an occupying power financed and supported by the US regime.
When North Korea was largely propped up by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, it regularly sent aid and weapons to Palestine.
During the 2014 Gaza War, North Korea also condemned Israel.
The country’s foreign ministry then strongly denounced “Israel's brutal killings of many defenseless Palestinians through indiscriminate military attacks on peaceable residential areas in Palestine.”
“They are unpardonable crimes against humanity” the ministry said.
Kim Yong-nam, head of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, sent a message of sympathy to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, with the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper calling Israel’s actions as a “bloody suppression”.
The newspaper said that Yong-nam in the message expressed deep condolences to the victims and their families.
“He vehemently denounced Israel for its brutal massacres and indiscriminate use of force against peaceful demonstrators demanding their legitimate rights.”
He affirmed North Korea's unwavering support for and solidarity with the just cause of the Palestinian people and their struggle to build an independent state with east Jerusalem as its capital and obtain their inalienable legitimate rights.
North Korea backs Palestine in its dispute with Israel, an occupying power financed and supported by the US regime.
When North Korea was largely propped up by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, it regularly sent aid and weapons to Palestine.
During the 2014 Gaza War, North Korea also condemned Israel.
The country’s foreign ministry then strongly denounced “Israel's brutal killings of many defenseless Palestinians through indiscriminate military attacks on peaceable residential areas in Palestine.”
“They are unpardonable crimes against humanity” the ministry said.
At least two Palestinians, on Saturday, were shot and injured by the Israeli army, with live fire, along the barbed-wire fence that separates between Gaza and Israel to the east of Gaza city, said medical sources.
Two unidentified youth were shot and injured as Israeli forces stationed along the Gaza-Israeli barrier continued to attack Palestinians peacefully demonstrating as part of the “the Great March of Return” non-violent protests.
The youth were admitted to a local hospital with gunshot wounds in their lower extremities.
No further information was provided regarding their health condition, according to WAFA.
Two unidentified youth were shot and injured as Israeli forces stationed along the Gaza-Israeli barrier continued to attack Palestinians peacefully demonstrating as part of the “the Great March of Return” non-violent protests.
The youth were admitted to a local hospital with gunshot wounds in their lower extremities.
No further information was provided regarding their health condition, according to WAFA.
Right-wing Knesset member Moti Yogev (Jewish Home) has renewed his call for assassinating senior Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip, justifying his call this time by saying it is necessary to prevent flaming kite attacks that cause agricultural damage to Israeli fields.
Yogev made his remarks after flying firebombs attached to kites, which were launched by Gaza protesters, sparked three fires in Israeli territory.
Gaza protesters use flaming kites as a means to respond to the Israeli army’s recent mass murders of compatriots on the eastern border with Israel and its repeated bombing and bulldozing of agricultural areas inside the besieged enclave.
The Knesset member labeled these counterattacks as “kite terror,” inciting the Israeli government and army to respond to them by killing Hamas leaders in Gaza.
"To respond to this kite terror, we need to hit the head. We need to hit the heads of Hamas, with targeted eliminations," he told Israel’s Channel 7. "They said there's someone responsible in Gaza? So he can pay the price."
Last April, Yogev had called for murdering Hamas leaders in response to March of Return rallies taking place near the Gaza border fence with Israel.
Yogev made his remarks after flying firebombs attached to kites, which were launched by Gaza protesters, sparked three fires in Israeli territory.
Gaza protesters use flaming kites as a means to respond to the Israeli army’s recent mass murders of compatriots on the eastern border with Israel and its repeated bombing and bulldozing of agricultural areas inside the besieged enclave.
The Knesset member labeled these counterattacks as “kite terror,” inciting the Israeli government and army to respond to them by killing Hamas leaders in Gaza.
"To respond to this kite terror, we need to hit the head. We need to hit the heads of Hamas, with targeted eliminations," he told Israel’s Channel 7. "They said there's someone responsible in Gaza? So he can pay the price."
Last April, Yogev had called for murdering Hamas leaders in response to March of Return rallies taking place near the Gaza border fence with Israel.
Hussein Salem Abu ‘Oweida, 41
The Palestinian Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip has reported that a Palestinian man died, on Saturday at dawn, from serious wounds he suffered after Israeli soldiers shot him with live fire, several days ago.
The Ministry identified the slain Palestinian as Hussein Salem Abu ‘Oweida, 41, and added that he was shot by the army hundreds of meters away from the border fence, east of Gaza city.
The Palestinian became paralyzed after an Israeli army bullet struck him in his spine, before he was moved to the Shifa Medical Center, in Gaza City, but died from his wounds and serious complications.
In a video message before his death, Hussein said that he was just selling ice cream and refreshment near the protest tent, hundreds of meters away from the “border fence” to provide for his children in the besieged and imprisoned coastal region.
He also voiced an appeal to President Mahmoud Abbas, and various officials, to help him out, and provide him with medical treatment.
“I call on the entire world, and President Mahmoud Abbas, to have mercy on me; I want to walk again” he said, “Am here at the Shifa hospital, I am paralyzed man. I pray for help, pleading for help – calling on them to see my difficult condition… and nothing more.”
On Friday, the Health Ministry said a young man, identified as Yasser Sami Habib, 24, succumbed to wounds sustained from Israeli army gunfire during the protests on May 14.
Habib suffered a very serious injury before he was rushed to a hospital in Gaza, and was later transferred to Sr. Joseph Hospital, in occupied Jerusalem, where he succumbed to his wounds.
Two other Palestinians who were injured, during the protests on May 14, also succumbed to their wounds on Thursday evening. They have been identified as Ahmad Ali Qattoush, 23 Mohannad Bakr Abu Tahoun, 21.
Their deaths bring the number of Palestinians, killed by Israeli army fire since the Great Return March procession started on Palestinian Land Day, on March 30th, 2018, to 116 Palestinians, while more than 13.000 Palestinians have been injured, including 332 who suffered life-threatening wounds.
Gaza Strip hospital and medical centers lack basic supplies and equipment due to the lengthy and deadly siege on the Gaza Strip, and the repeated military offensives. video
The Palestinian Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip has reported that a Palestinian man died, on Saturday at dawn, from serious wounds he suffered after Israeli soldiers shot him with live fire, several days ago.
The Ministry identified the slain Palestinian as Hussein Salem Abu ‘Oweida, 41, and added that he was shot by the army hundreds of meters away from the border fence, east of Gaza city.
The Palestinian became paralyzed after an Israeli army bullet struck him in his spine, before he was moved to the Shifa Medical Center, in Gaza City, but died from his wounds and serious complications.
In a video message before his death, Hussein said that he was just selling ice cream and refreshment near the protest tent, hundreds of meters away from the “border fence” to provide for his children in the besieged and imprisoned coastal region.
He also voiced an appeal to President Mahmoud Abbas, and various officials, to help him out, and provide him with medical treatment.
“I call on the entire world, and President Mahmoud Abbas, to have mercy on me; I want to walk again” he said, “Am here at the Shifa hospital, I am paralyzed man. I pray for help, pleading for help – calling on them to see my difficult condition… and nothing more.”
On Friday, the Health Ministry said a young man, identified as Yasser Sami Habib, 24, succumbed to wounds sustained from Israeli army gunfire during the protests on May 14.
Habib suffered a very serious injury before he was rushed to a hospital in Gaza, and was later transferred to Sr. Joseph Hospital, in occupied Jerusalem, where he succumbed to his wounds.
Two other Palestinians who were injured, during the protests on May 14, also succumbed to their wounds on Thursday evening. They have been identified as Ahmad Ali Qattoush, 23 Mohannad Bakr Abu Tahoun, 21.
Their deaths bring the number of Palestinians, killed by Israeli army fire since the Great Return March procession started on Palestinian Land Day, on March 30th, 2018, to 116 Palestinians, while more than 13.000 Palestinians have been injured, including 332 who suffered life-threatening wounds.
Gaza Strip hospital and medical centers lack basic supplies and equipment due to the lengthy and deadly siege on the Gaza Strip, and the repeated military offensives. video
25 may 2018
Massive fires erupted on Friday in five sites in the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories by flaming kites and balloons launched from the Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that two fires flared up in the afternoon in settler farmlands east of Beit Hanoun town and al-Bureij refugee camp in the northern and central Gaza Strip respectively.
Other fires were caused later by kites sent from Khan Younis and al-Maghazi refugee camp burning dozens of dunums of land.
Thousands of Palestinians marched along Gaza's eastern border fence to participate in the protests of the ninth Friday of the Great Return March.
Since the start of the Great Return March in the Gaza Strip, dozens of flaming kites have been launched toward settler farmlands near the border fence causing heavy losses.
Flaming kites are one of the tools used by Palestinian youths to confuse the Israeli snipers stationed at the border fence to shoot peaceful protesters.
At least 120 Palestinians have been killed and over 13,000 injured by Israeli gunfire since the launch of the Great Return March protests on 30th March.
Local sources reported that two fires flared up in the afternoon in settler farmlands east of Beit Hanoun town and al-Bureij refugee camp in the northern and central Gaza Strip respectively.
Other fires were caused later by kites sent from Khan Younis and al-Maghazi refugee camp burning dozens of dunums of land.
Thousands of Palestinians marched along Gaza's eastern border fence to participate in the protests of the ninth Friday of the Great Return March.
Since the start of the Great Return March in the Gaza Strip, dozens of flaming kites have been launched toward settler farmlands near the border fence causing heavy losses.
Flaming kites are one of the tools used by Palestinian youths to confuse the Israeli snipers stationed at the border fence to shoot peaceful protesters.
At least 120 Palestinians have been killed and over 13,000 injured by Israeli gunfire since the launch of the Great Return March protests on 30th March.
The Israeli occupation authorities on Friday prevented the entry of the body of the Palestinian martyr Muhannad Abu Tahoun into the Gaza Strip to be buried after he died Thursday at al-Ahli Hospital in al-Khalil.
Abu Tahoun's body was taken to Tarqumiyah crossing in the morning in preparation for its transfer to Gaza, his hometown, but the body was detained at the crossing for several hours before it was returned to al-Ahli Hospital.
Abu Tahoun was shot in the head while he was taking part in the Great Return March in Gaza a few days go, and he remained in a coma until he died on Thursday, a day after he was transferred to a Palestinian hospital in al-Khalil in an attempt to save his life.
Abu Tahoun's body was taken to Tarqumiyah crossing in the morning in preparation for its transfer to Gaza, his hometown, but the body was detained at the crossing for several hours before it was returned to al-Ahli Hospital.
Abu Tahoun was shot in the head while he was taking part in the Great Return March in Gaza a few days go, and he remained in a coma until he died on Thursday, a day after he was transferred to a Palestinian hospital in al-Khalil in an attempt to save his life.
Yasser Sami Habib, 24
The Palestinian young man Yasser Sami Habib, 24, succumbed to his wounds on Friday sustained from Israeli gunfire during the Great March of Return protests on May 15 at the Gaza border with Israel.
The Palestinian Health Ministry affirmed that Habib died of his wounds while receiving treatment at St. Joseph's Hospital in occupied Jerusalem.
Earlier on Thursday evening, two Palestinians who were injured during the protests on May 15 also succumbed to their wounds.
More than 121 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the start of the Great March Return protests on March. Thousands other were injured, including 50 in critical condition.
109 Injured by Israeli Gunfire on Gaza Border, Palestinian Succumbs to Earlier Wounds
At least 109 Palestinians, including four children and nine women, were injured by gunfire and others suffocated from teargas, after Israeli soldiers attacked them, while partaking in the continuing Great March of Return protests along the Gaza-Israel border, WAFA medical sources said.
Among the wounded, three were critically injured by gunshots in the head, while the remaining others sustained various bodily injuries.
Other protesters also suffocated when Israeli soldiers fired teargas canisters at them, who, despite a hot Ramadan day, continued to protest peacefully along the eastern border of the Strip, demanding the right of return to their pre-1948 homes in historical Palestine.
The protesters burned damaged tires near the border, to disrupt the visibility of the Israeli soldiers, who opened fire at the protesters, despite the fact that they did not pose a life threat to the soldiers.
Over 120 Palestinians were killed and thousands have been injured since the outbreak of the Great March of Return protests, on March 30.
Also on Friday, a young Palestinian man succumbed to wounds sustained from Israeli army gunfire during the protests on May 14, according to medical sources.
Yasser Sami Habib, 24, died of his wounds at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Jerusalem, where he had been moved for medical treatment.
Habib was shot and critically injured during the protests against relocating the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Two other Palestinians who were injured, during the protests on May 14, also succumbed to their wounds on Thursday evening.
The Palestinian young man Yasser Sami Habib, 24, succumbed to his wounds on Friday sustained from Israeli gunfire during the Great March of Return protests on May 15 at the Gaza border with Israel.
The Palestinian Health Ministry affirmed that Habib died of his wounds while receiving treatment at St. Joseph's Hospital in occupied Jerusalem.
Earlier on Thursday evening, two Palestinians who were injured during the protests on May 15 also succumbed to their wounds.
More than 121 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the start of the Great March Return protests on March. Thousands other were injured, including 50 in critical condition.
109 Injured by Israeli Gunfire on Gaza Border, Palestinian Succumbs to Earlier Wounds
At least 109 Palestinians, including four children and nine women, were injured by gunfire and others suffocated from teargas, after Israeli soldiers attacked them, while partaking in the continuing Great March of Return protests along the Gaza-Israel border, WAFA medical sources said.
Among the wounded, three were critically injured by gunshots in the head, while the remaining others sustained various bodily injuries.
Other protesters also suffocated when Israeli soldiers fired teargas canisters at them, who, despite a hot Ramadan day, continued to protest peacefully along the eastern border of the Strip, demanding the right of return to their pre-1948 homes in historical Palestine.
The protesters burned damaged tires near the border, to disrupt the visibility of the Israeli soldiers, who opened fire at the protesters, despite the fact that they did not pose a life threat to the soldiers.
Over 120 Palestinians were killed and thousands have been injured since the outbreak of the Great March of Return protests, on March 30.
Also on Friday, a young Palestinian man succumbed to wounds sustained from Israeli army gunfire during the protests on May 14, according to medical sources.
Yasser Sami Habib, 24, died of his wounds at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Jerusalem, where he had been moved for medical treatment.
Habib was shot and critically injured during the protests against relocating the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Two other Palestinians who were injured, during the protests on May 14, also succumbed to their wounds on Thursday evening.
Ahmad Qatoush 23
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported, Thursday, that two Palestinians, who were shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire in the Gaza Strip, have succumbed to their serious wounds.
Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry in Gaza, said a young man, identified as Ahmad Ali Qattoush, 23, died at the Shifa Medical Center in Gaza, from serious wounds he suffered several days ago, after Israeli soldiers shot him with a live round in the head, east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in Central Gaza.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported, Thursday, that two Palestinians, who were shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire in the Gaza Strip, have succumbed to their serious wounds.
Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry in Gaza, said a young man, identified as Ahmad Ali Qattoush, 23, died at the Shifa Medical Center in Gaza, from serious wounds he suffered several days ago, after Israeli soldiers shot him with a live round in the head, east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in Central Gaza.
Mohannad Bakr Abu Tahoun, 21
It is worth mentioning that Ahmad has two other brothers, identified as Rami and Ibrahim, who were also killed by Israeli army fire in previous years.
Ahmad is from Nusseirat city, in Deir al-Balah, in Central Gaza Strip.
Dr. al-Qedra added that another Palestinian, identified as Mohannad Bakr Abu Tahoun, 21, died from serious wounds he suffered, after an Israeli soldier shot him with a live round in the head, on May 14th.
Abu Tahoun, from Zawaida area in Gaza city, was moved to a hospital in Gaza, before he was transferred, Wednesday, to the Al-Ahli Palestinian hospital, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, where he succumbed to his wounds on Thursday evening.
Dr. al-Qedra said 50 Palestinians, who were injured by Israeli army fire since the Great Return March nonviolent protests started on March 30th, have been declared clinically dead, and added that 114 Palestinians, including 14 children and two journalists, who were killed.
Israeli soldiers have injured 13190 Palestinians since then, 330 of them suffered life-threatening wounds.
13 of the Palestinians who were killed by Israeli army fire, and 2096 of the wounded, are children, while 7618 of the injured were shot with live fire, the illegal expanding bullets in addition to rubber-coated steel bullets, and the rest suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.
It is worth mentioning that 32 of the wounded Palestinians suffered injuries that caused the amputation of their limbs; 27of them had their legs amputated.
Gaza youth succumbs to Israeli-inflicted wounds
A Palestinian young man was pronounced dead on Thursday evening after he succumbed to wounds inflicted by the Israeli military during the Gaza Strip’s border protests.
Spokesperson for the Gaza-based Palestinian Health Ministry, Ashraf al-Qidrah, identified the casualty as 23-year-old Ahmad Qatoush, shot and injured by the Israeli army during the Great March of Return protests staged at the Gaza border.
Qatoush’s death brings the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli military at the Gaza border since March 30 as high as 119, five among whom have had their bodies withheld by the occupation authorities.
It is worth mentioning that Ahmad has two other brothers, identified as Rami and Ibrahim, who were also killed by Israeli army fire in previous years.
Ahmad is from Nusseirat city, in Deir al-Balah, in Central Gaza Strip.
Dr. al-Qedra added that another Palestinian, identified as Mohannad Bakr Abu Tahoun, 21, died from serious wounds he suffered, after an Israeli soldier shot him with a live round in the head, on May 14th.
Abu Tahoun, from Zawaida area in Gaza city, was moved to a hospital in Gaza, before he was transferred, Wednesday, to the Al-Ahli Palestinian hospital, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, where he succumbed to his wounds on Thursday evening.
Dr. al-Qedra said 50 Palestinians, who were injured by Israeli army fire since the Great Return March nonviolent protests started on March 30th, have been declared clinically dead, and added that 114 Palestinians, including 14 children and two journalists, who were killed.
Israeli soldiers have injured 13190 Palestinians since then, 330 of them suffered life-threatening wounds.
13 of the Palestinians who were killed by Israeli army fire, and 2096 of the wounded, are children, while 7618 of the injured were shot with live fire, the illegal expanding bullets in addition to rubber-coated steel bullets, and the rest suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.
It is worth mentioning that 32 of the wounded Palestinians suffered injuries that caused the amputation of their limbs; 27of them had their legs amputated.
Gaza youth succumbs to Israeli-inflicted wounds
A Palestinian young man was pronounced dead on Thursday evening after he succumbed to wounds inflicted by the Israeli military during the Gaza Strip’s border protests.
Spokesperson for the Gaza-based Palestinian Health Ministry, Ashraf al-Qidrah, identified the casualty as 23-year-old Ahmad Qatoush, shot and injured by the Israeli army during the Great March of Return protests staged at the Gaza border.
Qatoush’s death brings the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli military at the Gaza border since March 30 as high as 119, five among whom have had their bodies withheld by the occupation authorities.
24 may 2018
Twenty-six Palestine student societies at UK universities have issued a statement demanding the UK government to stop arms sales to Israel and denouncing the massacre of unarmed protestors in Gaza.
The statement came following a deadly crackdown mounted by the Israeli military against Palestinian demonstrators on May 14th, which witnessed the official opening of the US embassy in occupied Jerusalem, a day before the 70th anniversary of Nakba –attacking the ongoing six-week protest demanding the Right of Return.
“The UK government continues to approve arms sales to Israel, in defiance of its own export guidelines, while it imports Israeli combat-proven military hardware.” The statement said.
The societies slammed Israel’s continuing violence against those participating for the eighth week in the Great March of Return, which so far claimed approximately a hundred protestors including journalists and women, and injured thousands.
They called on the government “to introduce an embargo on its two-way arms trade with Israel ending its century of crimes against the Palestinian people,” and its complicity in the occupation, while urging university students in Britain to join the campaign to divest their universities from any corporation profiting from Israel’s military occupation.
President of the Palestine Society in the University of Aberdeen, Sarah Schröder, told MEMO: “After 70 years of the Nakba, we must do everything to prevent more catastrophes in Palestine.”
“As students in the UK we feel a responsibility to stand with Palestinians and become active to stop further weapons sales to Israel and university investments in Israel.”
Since the 30th of March this year, Palestinian have been protesting under the Great March of Return to highlight their internationally recognized right of return to their homes.
President of City University Palsoc, Abdelrahman al-Tamimi said that more must be done by the UK government to curb Israeli aggression.
"We need to remind everyone of the continuous crimes committed by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people," he said.
President of Warwick Friends of Palestine Society, Yasmin Huleileh, said that “It is not enough for people to be by-standers and wait to be educated about Palestine-Israel politics. It is a modern example of injustice, human rights deprivation, colonization, and a brutal occupation. To put it simply, if you support human rights, help end the occupation.”
The signatories of the statement:
City University Palestinian Society
UCL Friends Of Palestine
Aberdeen University Palestine Society
University of Leeds - Palestine Solidarity Group
SOAS university Palestine society
Exeter University Friends of Palestine Society
Queen Mary Friends of Palestine
Brunel University London Friends of Palestine Society
KCL Action Palestine
Strathclyde Students for Palestine Society
Cambridge University Palestine Society
University of Bristol Friends of Palestine
Goldsmiths Palestine Society
BDS campaign University of Manchester
Sussex Friends of Palestine society
Warwick Friends of Palestine Society
Aston University Palestine Society
Glasgow University Palestine Society
Sheffield Hallam Palestine Society
University of Sheffield Palestine Society
SGUL Palestine society
Westminster students for Palestine society
The Palestine society university of Nottingham
Oxford Students' Palestine Society
Keel Friends of Palestine
University of York Palestinian Solidarity Society
The statement came following a deadly crackdown mounted by the Israeli military against Palestinian demonstrators on May 14th, which witnessed the official opening of the US embassy in occupied Jerusalem, a day before the 70th anniversary of Nakba –attacking the ongoing six-week protest demanding the Right of Return.
“The UK government continues to approve arms sales to Israel, in defiance of its own export guidelines, while it imports Israeli combat-proven military hardware.” The statement said.
The societies slammed Israel’s continuing violence against those participating for the eighth week in the Great March of Return, which so far claimed approximately a hundred protestors including journalists and women, and injured thousands.
They called on the government “to introduce an embargo on its two-way arms trade with Israel ending its century of crimes against the Palestinian people,” and its complicity in the occupation, while urging university students in Britain to join the campaign to divest their universities from any corporation profiting from Israel’s military occupation.
President of the Palestine Society in the University of Aberdeen, Sarah Schröder, told MEMO: “After 70 years of the Nakba, we must do everything to prevent more catastrophes in Palestine.”
“As students in the UK we feel a responsibility to stand with Palestinians and become active to stop further weapons sales to Israel and university investments in Israel.”
Since the 30th of March this year, Palestinian have been protesting under the Great March of Return to highlight their internationally recognized right of return to their homes.
President of City University Palsoc, Abdelrahman al-Tamimi said that more must be done by the UK government to curb Israeli aggression.
"We need to remind everyone of the continuous crimes committed by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people," he said.
President of Warwick Friends of Palestine Society, Yasmin Huleileh, said that “It is not enough for people to be by-standers and wait to be educated about Palestine-Israel politics. It is a modern example of injustice, human rights deprivation, colonization, and a brutal occupation. To put it simply, if you support human rights, help end the occupation.”
The signatories of the statement:
City University Palestinian Society
UCL Friends Of Palestine
Aberdeen University Palestine Society
University of Leeds - Palestine Solidarity Group
SOAS university Palestine society
Exeter University Friends of Palestine Society
Queen Mary Friends of Palestine
Brunel University London Friends of Palestine Society
KCL Action Palestine
Strathclyde Students for Palestine Society
Cambridge University Palestine Society
University of Bristol Friends of Palestine
Goldsmiths Palestine Society
BDS campaign University of Manchester
Sussex Friends of Palestine society
Warwick Friends of Palestine Society
Aston University Palestine Society
Glasgow University Palestine Society
Sheffield Hallam Palestine Society
University of Sheffield Palestine Society
SGUL Palestine society
Westminster students for Palestine society
The Palestine society university of Nottingham
Oxford Students' Palestine Society
Keel Friends of Palestine
University of York Palestinian Solidarity Society
Nikolay Mladenov, UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, has warned that the besieged Gaza Strip is on the verge of collapse.
Mladenov gave the warning while addressing the UN Security Council on Wednesday, where he called for urgent action to relieve the suffering of Gaza's "increasingly desperate" people.
He added that people of Gaza were living with "crippling Israeli closures and with diminishing hopes for an end to the occupation and a political solution."
"Gaza's infrastructure teeters on the verge of total collapse, particularly its electricity and water networks as well as its health system," he noted.
Mladenov further called on the international community to join "in condemning in the strongest possible terms the actions that have led to the loss of so many lives in Gaza" since March.
Israeli forces killed at least 62 Palestinians during protests near the Gaza fence on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Nakba Day, which coincided with Washington’s embassy relocation from Tel Aviv to Occupied Jerusalem.
More than 2,700 Palestinians were also wounded by Israeli gunfire during that day.
The UN official also denounced Israeli settlement activities in the occupied West Bank and Israel’s destruction of dozens of Palestinian homes and structures recently.
According to him, Israeli authorities have demolished or seized some 30 Palestinian-owned structures across the West Bank, including east Jerusalem. As a result, 43 Palestinians have been displaced and the livelihoods of over 140 have been affected.
Mladenov gave the warning while addressing the UN Security Council on Wednesday, where he called for urgent action to relieve the suffering of Gaza's "increasingly desperate" people.
He added that people of Gaza were living with "crippling Israeli closures and with diminishing hopes for an end to the occupation and a political solution."
"Gaza's infrastructure teeters on the verge of total collapse, particularly its electricity and water networks as well as its health system," he noted.
Mladenov further called on the international community to join "in condemning in the strongest possible terms the actions that have led to the loss of so many lives in Gaza" since March.
Israeli forces killed at least 62 Palestinians during protests near the Gaza fence on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Nakba Day, which coincided with Washington’s embassy relocation from Tel Aviv to Occupied Jerusalem.
More than 2,700 Palestinians were also wounded by Israeli gunfire during that day.
The UN official also denounced Israeli settlement activities in the occupied West Bank and Israel’s destruction of dozens of Palestinian homes and structures recently.
According to him, Israeli authorities have demolished or seized some 30 Palestinian-owned structures across the West Bank, including east Jerusalem. As a result, 43 Palestinians have been displaced and the livelihoods of over 140 have been affected.
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